Large tenant‑to‑tenant (T2T) migrations are complex, multi‑workload programmes that touch every layer of Microsoft 365. Over time, recurring patterns and lessons emerge, especially when dealing with thousands of users, legacy configurations, holds, storage constraints, and identity dependencies. Below are some of the most valuable lessons we’ve learned from delivering large‑scale M365 migrations. Lesson 1: Active […]
The Importance of Translation tables for migration tools
In tenant-to-tenant (T2T) and Google-to-Microsoft 365 migration projects, maintaining accurate identity relationships is essential for ensuring data integrity, continuity, and security. Migration tools such as AvePoint rely heavily on mapping files (sometimes called translation tables) to link source objects to their target equivalents. Without accurate mappings, permissions break, content fails to align, and migrated users may lose access to their own data. What is a mapping […]
Fundamental Differences Between Google Workspace and Microsoft Tenant: A Migration Perspective – Part 1
In the modern digital workplace, organisations face a critical decision: do they choose Google Workspace or Microsoft 365? Both platforms offer cloud-based productivity tools, collaboration features, and storage, but there are many differences in their architecture, security models, and integration capabilities. For businesses migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, understanding these fundamental differences, as […]
Leveraging Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises
I know that sound like a weird title right? How can you leverage Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises? After all Office 365 is in the cloud? What is not obvious is that a number of the subscriptions actually do grant you usage rights that are for on-premises use cases! The key document to refer to is the […]
Free Windows 10 upgrade offer via CSP
Most of us know that there was an offer from Microsoft to upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 back in 2016, however most of us don’t know that you can still get a ‘free’ upgrade today! Microsoft announced a new offer in January 2017 for any customers who have a Windows 10 Enterprise subscription via […]
Windows Firewall not writing to its logfiles
As part of Group Policy Management guidelines from the Centre of Internet Security (CIS), the recommendation is to turn on Firewall logging on all Windows Servers, and to save each profile to their own log file. Configuring this in Group Policy is pretty straight forward. Just type in the new file name for each profile, […]
Week 5 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Firstly apologies for taking this long to get back to doing the week 5 blog. It has been a manic couple of months and it doesn’t look like it is going to let up either! Anyway, so far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention […]
Week 4 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Happy New Year to you all, 2017 is here! I’m spending the first week of 2017 catching up on the 4th week of course work… So far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention Solutions Attacking & Securing Windows Network Handling Ransomware & Other Malicious […]
Week 3 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Wow the first two weeks have whizzed on by, in fact together with my normal workload I’m struggling to keep up with the pace! So far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention Solutions Attacking & Securing Windows Network Handling Ransomware & Other Malicious Software […]
Week 2 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Week 1 is behind us and we covered some great material! It has already been a real eye opener to see how easy it is to gain access to a machine and extract information from it. Last week we covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention Solutions […]
Week 1 – Advanced Windows Security Course
This week marks the start of a course I am attending called ‘Advanced Windows Security Course for 2017‘ run by Paula Januszkiewicz from CQURE. I am looking forward to seeing this course progress and discover various tips and tricks to break into operating systems and how to prevent those vulnerabilities So who are CQURE? CQURE […]
What are Windows and Surface as a Service?
In recent months you may have come across the terms Windows as a Service and Surface as a Service. What exactly do they mean? How can they be of benefit? This blog aims to explain those two terms in detail Windows as a Service The term Windows as a Service first started being used with […]