2018.12.11
Tenant-to-tenant migrations: the M&A playbook
Tenant to tenant migration Office 365 and M&A IT integration: domain cutover sequencing, mail flow, BitTitan vs bodies, and identity re-homing.
2018 field notes.
12 notes from 2018. Product names and recommendations reflect that year — not today's catalog. Current notes (2024–)
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2018.11.20
Microsoft buys FSLogix: profile management just got interesting
FSLogix acquisition Microsoft field notes: why VDI profiles break, what profile containers fix versus UPD and roaming, and what it means for WVD.
2018.10.23
Windows Server 2019 and Exchange 2019 are here. Should you still deploy on-prem?
Exchange 2019 vs Office 365 decision field notes: who still needs on-prem Exchange, Windows Server 2019 S2D, and the hybrid-minimal vs cloud-first fork.
2018.09.25
Ignite 2018: Windows Virtual Desktop announced — why we're paying attention
Windows Virtual Desktop announcement 2018 field notes: multi-session Windows 10, licensing entitlement, and what it means for Citrix and RDS estates.
2018.08.14
SCCM 2007 to Current Branch: the upgrade that's really a migration
SCCM 2007 to Current Branch migration field notes: side-by-side hierarchy, client reassignment waves, package-to-application conversion, and boundary redesign.
2018.07.17
The 35% Number: How Hybrid Coexistence Actually Cuts Infrastructure Cost
How to reduce infrastructure costs with cloud migration, honestly itemized: retired Exchange and SharePoint farms, storage tiers, DR simplification — and what never shrinks.
2018.06.12
Cutover vs Staged vs Hybrid: Picking Your Office 365 Migration Path
Cutover vs hybrid migration for Office 365, decided by mailbox count, directory state, and coexistence needs — with real timelines from 500, 4,000, and 15,000 seats.
2018.05.15
RDS 2012 R2 + App-V: The Pragmatic VDI Nobody Blogs About
RDS 2012 R2 deployment with App-V is the unfashionable VDI that works: session host economics, packaging discipline, broker HA, and when Citrix earns its premium.
2018.04.17
GDPR and Your Office 365 Tenant: The Questions Clients Keep Asking
GDPR enforcement is five weeks out. A practitioner's checklist for Office 365 compliance: data residency, retention vs deletion, DSRs, and what the processor agreement covers.
2018.03.13
Windows 7 to 10 at enterprise scale: task sequences that survive contact with reality
Field notes from a Windows 10 migration with SCCM: in-place upgrade vs wipe-and-load, driver management, USMT, and task sequences that survive reality.
2018.02.13
GPO, DHCP, and DFS: the unglamorous plumbing of AD consolidation
GPO cleanup consolidation and DFS namespace migration field notes: rationalizing 900 policies, DHCP failover cutover, and the plumbing between org charts.
2018.01.16
Meltdown and Spectre: what hypervisor patching did to our density math
Field notes, two weeks into Meltdown and Spectre: the antivirus registry gate, enabling Windows Server mitigations, and the hit to Hyper-V performance and density math.