Case Study: Stella Maris College achieves twice-as-fast migration to Office 365 and boosted user confidence with AvePoint DocAve

Stella Maris College Migrates from File Shares to Microsoft® Office 365 Twice as Fast and Boosts User Confidence with DocAve®

Stella Maris College, a Catholic secondary school for girls in Manly, Australia, needed to modernise 15 years of on-premises file shares and improve collaboration by moving to Office 365. The school found Microsoft’s native sync tools unreliable—files were missing, migrations were restricted, and end users grew nervous—so IT sought a fast, dependable migration that preserved data fidelity without adding on-premises infrastructure.

They chose AvePoint’s DocAve Migrator with the Discovery Tool and DocAve Online SaaS to pre-scan and fix issues, perform granular and incremental migrations, and manage SharePoint Online. The team migrated 250 GB with full fidelity twice as fast as native tools, moved sensitive finance/admin data to on‑premises SharePoint 2013, reduced downtime, implemented scheduled backups and item-level restores, and boosted IT and user confidence in Office 365 while simplifying ongoing management.

Stella Maris College

Chris Maker

IT Manager