Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) offers various ways for devices to connect and authenticate with its services. Here’s a breakdown of the key differences between Azure AD registered, Azure AD joined, and Hybrid Azure AD joined devices: In summary, the…
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) Template
A Disaster Recovery Plan document is in place to ensure the organization has a comprehensive plan in place to recover the application or system in the event of a disaster or disruption, minimizing downtime and data loss. The following sections…
Email Migration: Communication Strategy
An email migration is a very disruptive event and it’s important to keep your end users informed and engaged throughout the process. By organizing your communications effectively, you can help minimize disruptions and ensure a smooth transition. Three weeks before…
M&A: IT Support Model Transition
Your IT support model is an important part of your overall IT infrastructure. It determines how your organization handles IT requests, incidents, and problems. If you are undergoing a Merge & Acquisition process, where a company is taken over by…
How to plan a M365 Migration
Below are some high level steps you can follow should you want to plan you M365 Migration: Contact me if you need assistance in your M365 Migration!
Best practices for IT Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) refers to the process of restoring IT systems, data, and infrastructure in the event of a catastrophic failure or disaster. Here are some of the best practices for IT disaster recovery: By following these best practices, you…
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
The recent Energy Crisis has highlighted how critical energy supplies are to the running of our daily operations. It is therefore a very good opportunity to explain the difference between Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR). Let’s start…
Physical Moves: risks and issues
Physical moves are still valuable and necessary solutions, even in today increasingly virtualized and cloud based DC world. Examples: Solaris boxes which have been running for decades or physical appliances (e.g. Ironports network and security devices).
The most common issues during migrations
In this article I wanted to share with you some of the most common migration issues we recently encountered on a large scale data center consolidation project. Keep in mind that the below are all execution related issues, nothing to do with…
Is everything ready for your migration?
It is a wise idea to prepare a checklist to go through a few days before the scheduled migration date. As you are getting close to zero hour, your workload increases, you are busy chasing everyone, putting together the last pieces…