I recently started a new job where the company is planning to transition from locally managed accounts to Microsoft 365 Business Premium accounts. We need to migrate around 80 users who currently only have local accounts and no Active Directory. The main goal is to enhance security. Most of these users are not very tech-savvy and don't remember their work logins, so I will have to provide them their login details and set up a PIN for them.
What would be the best approach for migrating these local accounts to Microsoft 365 Business Premium? Should I use ProfWiz for the migration and then deal with potential issues like some signing software failing or users forgetting their logins since they often saved their passwords in Chrome but don't remember their Google accounts?
Also, they have an SMB shared folder that everyone can access on one PC. It's not connected to Azure, so when I tried accessing it with a pure Microsoft 365 account, it didn't work, while it does with local and mixed local/M365 accounts.
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I’ve tried ProfWiz and honestly, it hasn’t worked for me when migrating tenant to tenant. I'd recommend having everyone log in with their Microsoft 365 account as Entra Joined. This allows you to set up conditional access policies, enforcing "device compliance per user". As for Outlook autocomplete, I simply advise users that it's a temporary file that will re-generate. Also, exporting bookmarks and using a password manager like Bitwarden can be really helpful!
If you need to manage Outlook autocomplete, you might want to check out NK2Edit by NirSoft. It can help with that, and it has some command line options to automate the process!