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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 & […]
I have not been writing much this summer as it has been quite a busy period at both work and home. A lot of migrations were delayed a few months with COVID-19, plus the normal summer push for Education, and we did our own migration (flat-to-flat) in London 😊. In this post, I am taking […]
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: […]
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 […]
June is Pride month. For Pride I can think of no better way to commemorate it, than sharing part of my life as a LGBTQ+ person. So, in this post, I talk about my husband, MADNick 😊 (except he really is MAD for dealing with me and that pun). Many studies show the importance of […]
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 […]
Although solutions exist to migrate mailbox permissions, we have to decide what permissions should move rather than just moving them over. In this post, I will cover the common considerations when deciding what mailbox permissions to migrate in MAD projects. First, let’s review the three kinds of Exchange Mailbox Permissions: Full Mailbox Permissions Assigned by […]