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Migrating exchange and shared drives to the cloud

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http://serverfault.com – We have about 40 staff and use Microsoft Exchange and the Office Suite of software. The company is reliant on public folders in Outlook and shared network drives with typically Excel files containing a significant amount of logic relating to our processes. The cost of Google's apps for business and Microsoft Office 365 make them both appealing (we pay a support fee to a third party company) Has anyone any experience migrating to either of these services ? (I am a developer who wants to get rid of his support duties, apologies if not in the right place) (HowTos)

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