Times Up! Get Rid of Public Folders
Preparing the Move to O365
Eighty-five percent of business data is unstructured. This includes your text, media, videos, social, and more. And it’s doubling every 90 days. This qualitative data found across cloud Office365 is layered with improperly managed mailboxes and distribution lists and creates a complex network of inappropriate permissions and ownership that increase security risk. Even worse, public folders only add to that risk.
Migration Requirements
O365 migrations require the elimination of public folders in their current form.
Unclear Licensing Needs
There are mounds of misinformation across O365 licensing models.
VIP Mailboxes
Unnecessary legacy access and stale shared mailboxes create undue risk.

Spotlight on Public Folder Elimination
SPHERE offers the expertise to provide deep analysis on messaging assets and helps to improve migration requirements. Our dedicated team will remediate all access controls issues, retire unused assets that aren’t required, and migrate to the appropriate alternate repository.
Assessment
Inventory public folders and use cases in order to re-map to an alternate repository.
Planning
Identify migration requirements, permissions, and assets.
Risk Analysis
Conduct risk analyses and assign a risk value for prioritization.
Remediation
Reconcile and standardize messaging assets and public folder environments.
Migration
Complete migration to the appropriate identified alternative repository.
Our Approach
Our end-to-end approach delivers a deeper, validated, automated way to reduce risk and better govern your messaging and collaboration environments.
Collect
Scan on prem, cloud, AD, SharePoint and more.
Correlate
Examine for open, excessive, and non-standard access.
Organize
Establish actionable metrics for use cases.
Report
Gain visibility into every major risk.
Remediate
Remediate assets based on prioritized risk.
Ongoing Support with SPHERExperts
Professional Services
Signature services with a consultative approach to continuously mature and improve your messaging and collaboration environment.
- Assessments, including Microsoft Teams
- Project Delivery and Remediation
- Connector Implementation
- Custom Solutions

Managed Services
Ongoing support to deal with fluid and ever-changing requirements to ensure proper controls are in place.
- O365 Analysis and Planning
- SharePoint and OneDrive Reporting
- Target Operating Model Build
If you’re like most organizations, your current public folders are most likely in disarray. Whether...