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In a Merger and Acquisition, the race is on from day one! Many times, in this race, acquiring organizations want to get their new colleagues up and running as quickly as possible. However, in this race, some organizations decide to provision new accounts with an Office 365 license. In my opinion, this is not the […]
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 […]
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 […]
As technologists, we all tend to have a joke or saying that has the same twist . . . Technology is the easy part, it’s the people that are difficult. As much as we sometimes say this tongue and cheek, there is some truth to it. MAD is hard on people, including IT. MAD is […]