I recently had a few of our hosted exchange customers call up asking about what they needed to do when they moved offices. This is a valid and legitimate question. The thought of an office move makes people’s heads spin.. new Internet connections, moving companies, phone lines and build-outs equal headaches, time and money that could be invested in other areas of the business.

If you had an in house Microsoft Exchange server an office move would be quite a planning task that would initiate an IT consulting bill starting in the four figure range as soon as the words “We are moving offices what is needed to move our exchange server” left your mouth.

With a hosted exchange solution an office move is so simple your team can handle it themselves and as a good friend of mine Randall Fullerton at Peritus IT Solutions says, “And you can be sitting in the Bahamas sipping a pink drink.”

Here are the Instructions below.. no need to write this down..really!

1. Get an Internet connection at the new office 
2. Shut down computers at current office and unplug
3. Bring computers to new office and plug into power and Internet
4. Turn Computers on and open Outlook
5. DONE!

Well I can imagine your head must be spinning after trying to digest all those instructions so you better order yourself another pink drink and stick with a hosted exchange solution.

PS – Thanks Randall!