Queensland Fire and Emergency Services SharePoint migrations
- Jun 12, 2019
- 1 min read
We have recently completed the migration of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Intranet and Teams sites to SharePoint Online.
These were both large projects with the Intranet migration consisting of over 100 sites, large customisations and a customer base over 5000 users.
The Team sites were migrated and then converted to the new Modern interface. This has provided many benefits including more visually appealing sites, easier page editing capabilities and mobile responsive layout.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services were a great partner to work with and are one of the first Queensland government agencies using the new SharePoint modern interface.
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