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I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at a great meetup in Manchester, UK a few days ago. The Microsoft Cloud User Group has some fantastic gatherings coming up, and I highly recommend all my UK friends take advantage of them. They are excellent networking events. In this post, I will review what I covered […]
This week I wrote a great article on Practical 365 on Renaming a Tenant’s SharePoint URL. This process is a preview program and the article reviews what it is, what it isn’t, and guidance on if you should use it. You can check the article out here: https://practical365.com/renaming-your-sharepoint-online-url/ Let’s review the issue at a more […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
I am someone with a common name. I have the great honour to be someone who gets hauled away for mistaken identity at international airports. (It is always a great welcome / welcome back) In any migration, Name Collision is a common problem that needs to be addressed during the planning stage. Common issues include: […]
Moving to a new system has never been easy. In the last few years our technology and organizations have changed. This has fostered new collaboration, both in our tech, and how we operate as companies. As a Migration Technologist, this has created a big problem; Staged Migrations just don’t seem like an option anymore. In […]
Breaking up is hard to do! A Divestiture is very different from a Merger or Acquisition. For organizations that do this kind of work regularly, a Divestiture can throw them for a loop and highly underestimate the effort needed to complete the project. The main issue is how to separate data, and, at the root […]
We certainly are living in interesting times. I write this post in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are seeing organizations rapidly adopting technology to keep operating remotely. In this rush, firms are making some very quick decisions and are often overlooking their normal processes. I hate tool sprawl. In MAD projects, wherever we […]