Cloud Email & Collaboration

Office 365 & Exchange Online for Business

VOWTECH sets up Microsoft 365 for businesses in the UAE and moves company email to Exchange Online. We prepare your domain, migrate mailboxes, configure Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, switch on the security settings that matter and stay available for user administration afterwards.

Exchange Online
Teams
SharePoint & OneDrive
MFA & Security
// OVERVIEW

Business Email Without a Mail Server to Babysit

Exchange Online is the hosted email service inside Microsoft 365, still widely called Office 365. Mailboxes, calendars and contacts live in the Microsoft cloud rather than on a server in your office, so there is no mail server to patch, no disk to fill up and no dependence on the office internet line for staff working elsewhere.

The licence is the easy part. The work is in the move: preparing DNS records, copying years of mail without losing folders, reconnecting Outlook and phones, and making sure shared mailboxes and distribution lists still behave. VOWTECH handles this as part of its wider cloud solutions work for companies in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and across the UAE.

A new tenant is not secure by default in the ways most businesses assume. We enable multi-factor authentication, tighten sharing, and set up sender authentication so your domain is harder to spoof, then add anti-phishing protection on top. Licences themselves can be arranged through our software licensing service.

Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online services for UAE businesses
// Cloud email and collaboration services for business
// WHERE YOU ARE STARTING FROM

Three Common Starting Points

The route to Exchange Online depends on what you run today. Each of these needs a slightly different plan.

From an On-Premise Exchange Server

An ageing mail server in the office is moved to Exchange Online in batches. Mail keeps flowing to both sides during the move, and the old server is retired once everyone is across.

Staged or cutover migration
Mail flow kept during the move
Public folders and shared mailboxes
Old server decommissioned cleanly

From Hosted or Webmail Accounts

Companies using basic hosting email or a mix of personal-style accounts are consolidated onto proper business mailboxes under the company domain, with existing mail copied over.

Existing mail copied across
One company domain for everyone
Shared calendars and contacts
Consistent signatures and naming

New Company or New Office

A clean Microsoft 365 tenant built properly from the first day: domain verified, users and groups created, Teams and file storage structured, and security settings applied before anyone logs in.

Tenant and domain setup
Users, groups and licences
Teams and SharePoint structure
Pairs with office IT setup
// WHAT WE DO

Setup, Migration & Administration

Everything between buying the licences and staff simply getting on with their work.

Tenant, Domain & DNS

We create or tidy the tenant, verify your domain and publish the MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records that route mail correctly and help receiving servers trust it.

MX RecordsSPF / DKIMDMARC

Mailbox Migration

Mail, calendars and contacts are copied from the old system, checked for completeness and cut over at an agreed time, usually outside working hours.

MailCalendarsCutover

Teams, SharePoint & OneDrive

Teams and channels, SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive folder sync are structured around your departments so files stop living in email attachments.

TeamsDocument LibrariesFile Sync

Identity & Email Security

Multi-factor authentication, conditional access, external sharing limits and mail filtering policies are configured to match how your staff work and travel.

MFAConditional AccessMail Filtering

Outlook & Mobile Setup

Outlook profiles on PCs and mail on phones and tablets are reconnected to the new mailboxes, with device policies applied where company data is involved.

OutlookPhones & TabletsDevice Policy

Ongoing Administration

New starters, leavers, licence changes, shared mailboxes, distribution lists and password or sign-in problems are handled by our helpdesk as they come up.

Joiners / LeaversLicencesHelpdesk
// MIGRATION STEPS

From Old Mailboxes to Exchange Online

The order matters. Most failed migrations skipped the first step.

Inventory

We list every mailbox, alias, shared mailbox, group and device, and note mailbox sizes and anything unusual.

Tenant Preparation

The tenant, domain, users and licences are prepared and security baselines are applied in advance.

Data Copy

Mail is copied in the background while staff keep working on the old system as normal.

Cutover

DNS is switched, a final sync picks up recent mail, and Outlook and phones are reconnected.

Support & Handover

We stay close for the first working days, resolve stragglers and hand over admin documentation.

// WHY VOWTECH

What a Well-Run Microsoft 365 Tenant Gives You

The benefits come from configuration and housekeeping, not from the subscription on its own.

Email That Follows the User

The same mailbox, calendar and contacts on the office PC, a laptop at home and a phone on site.

Files in One Place

Documents are shared from SharePoint and OneDrive with version history, instead of circulating as attachments.

Tighter Sign-In Security

Multi-factor authentication and sign-in policies make a stolen password far less useful to an attacker.

Local Administration

An Abu Dhabi-based team that manages the tenant, the PCs and the network together, with support available 24/7.

// What We Set Up & Support
Exchange OnlineMicrosoft TeamsSharePoint OnlineOneDrive for BusinessOutlook & Mobile MailMFA & Conditional AccessSPF / DKIM / DMARCLicence AdministrationMailbox Backup
// Areas We Serve
Abu DhabiDubaiAcross the UAE
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// FAQ

Office 365 & Exchange Online Questions

Microsoft 365 is the current name for the subscription that used to be called Office 365. It bundles the Office applications with cloud services. Exchange Online is one of those services: the part that provides business email, calendars and contacts. Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive are the other main pieces.
A properly planned migration is designed so that mail continues to be delivered throughout. Existing mail is copied in the background first, then mail routing is switched at an agreed time and a final sync collects anything that arrived in between. Staff normally notice only that Outlook asks them to sign in again.
Yes. Your domain is verified in Microsoft 365 and the same addresses are recreated there, so customers and suppliers see no change. We need access to wherever your domain DNS is managed in order to update the mail records, and we can help you locate that if nobody is sure.
It is sensible to. The service is resilient, but retention of deleted items is limited and it does not protect you from a user or attacker deliberately removing data. A separate copy of mailboxes and files gives you an independent restore point. See our backup and data protection service.
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// PLAN YOUR MOVE

Ready to Move Email to
Exchange Online?

Tell us how many mailboxes you have and where they are hosted today. We will plan the migration, prepare the tenant and move your users with as little disruption as possible.

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