Case Study: Michigan State University achieves seamless, no-downtime datacenter migration with Microsoft Office 365

Michigan State University holds back the flood with online collaboration and file sharing

Michigan State University faced an unexpected flood in early 2018 that forced an emergency datacenter migration in just three days instead of the 10 months it had planned. Using Microsoft Corporation’s Office 365, including Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint Online, the university’s IT team had to coordinate more than 80 engineers and technicians while keeping campus operations running with no disruption.

Microsoft Corporation’s Office 365 enabled MSU to move hardware and critical data quickly, collaborate in real time, and keep files and updates accessible across devices and locations. The result was a successful datacenter migration completed with virtually no downtime, lower cost, and no system outage, while also accelerating broader Office 365 adoption across the university.

Michigan State University

Brian Loomis

Chief Technology Officer