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Reactions, GIFs, and Emoticons are not just something kids are using anymore. They have become a regular part of our corporate communication. They can enhance or soften written communication, providing a wide range of communication tones in text, rather than the flat text of the past. However, there are a lot of migration challenges with […]
Day One activities for MAD work are often chaotic. I remember the 6 AM wake-ups by an AP Mobile Alert and my pager going off! After a cup of coffee, the first thing I would try to find out was if the other company was on Exchange, Notes, or Google. Today this issue is less […]
It is an unfortunate fact of life that many starting and established businesses fail. It is even more unfortunate that in the COVID-19 pandemic we are seeing business failure at a larger rate than normal. As a result, many business owners must navigate the difficulty of dealing with the digital footprint of a failed business. […]
Sometimes a picture is worth 1000 words. In this case, a video takes it a step further. Several of us at work have been working on a community piece to guide people through Microsoft 365 Tenant migrations. The video was done selfie style with a lot of post-production work. Petra did a truly amazing job […]
Last week I had the great opportunity to speak on an Expert Roundtable hosted by Petri on Tenant-To-Tenant Migrations. This session had some serious experts and advice. My colleague Paul Robichaux and I were joined by Tony Redmond (Lead Author of Office 365 for IT Pros), and Gary Bent (Global Infrastructure Architect at Omnicom Group). […]
Client Impacts When migrating users from one tenant to another, the end user’s Office install will need to be reconfigured. This is regardless of whether you are moving the user’s domain or not. At Quadrotech, during my day job, we have a reconfiguration agent that performs these actions as recommended by Microsoft. It is the […]
There have been some major announcements relating to MAD at Ignite this year. These announcements are very exciting! The dates are a bit. . . squishy let’s say? But there is hope for massive improvements in this space. Let’s dive in. Ignite 2017. . . a rant There was a famous session held at Ignite […]
You have heard me talk a lot about remediating differences between configurations in Tenants during migration. With Office 365 being such a large product set, configuration changes can sometimes feel like a total transformation, not just moving data. Although not a configuration, today we will talk about handling license mismatches in a Merger, Acquisition & […]
Every organization has a different policy on how they handle Terminated Users. In an Office 365 Tenant-To-Tenant Migration, terminated users cause challenges. Terminated user policies are usually directly tied to the industry the organization is in, and the position the former employee occupied. In this article, we explore how to scope the issues and migrate […]
COVID-19 has rocked the lives of many around the world. In this post I am going to focus on some of the technical challenges related to Covid-19. In doing so, we cannot discount the loss of life and the impacts this pandemic has had on people. I hope this post find you and your family […]