TEC 2021 on-demand: Migration and Modernization track

There are a lot of doors swinging open during an Active Directory migration or consolidation project, and this is a great window for attackers to target your organization. There are also many organizations consolidating already compromised systems. This on-demand session with Bryan Patton and Joe Sharmer will focus on the security missteps to avoid before, during and even after an AD migration project. Watch it today to learn how you can:

• Avoid M&A IT integration missteps
• Protect yourself from security breaches
• Achieve data security
• Reap the benefits expected from M&A
  

In this session, Adam Levithan will demonstrate a real-life scenario in which a company implements all Office 365 applications for the first time. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the Office 365 features you own, manage your projects in Teams and provide directions to consistently innovate without building any new systems.

Mergers, acquisitions and consolidating Active Directory instances for business agility can get complicated since they involve both the on-premises environment, Azure AD and adjusting the traditional migration process for remote devices. In this session, Joe Sharmer will walk you through best practices for hybrid AD consolidation scoping while keeping the remote user in mind.

Microsoft Teams offers organizations an easy-to-use interface, innovative features and integration with both Microsoft and third-party apps. Is your organization among those who will soon be adopting Teams? In this 30-minute session, Johnny Crockett will show you how to migrate Microsoft Teams from tenant to tenant.

In this session, Ragnar Heil and Paolo Pialorsi will explain what Microsoft 365 PnP Community’s set of libraries and tools are, how developers and IT pros can use them and how they benefit you during the migration from classic SharePoint sites and content to SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams. 

Using Microsoft 365 to store and manage files instead of traditional shared drives can lower your organization’s operating costs while improving users’ work experience. In this session, Andy Huneycutt will discuss your options for moving files to OneDrive and how OneDrive ties in with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, as well as tips to avoid common migration mistakes.

Finding the right migration tool for the job at hand is always a challenge, especially with Microsoft releasing several native migration tools and options. In this session, Mike Weaver and Vanitha Murugesan will share their scoping methods and align the common challenges of both native and paid tools. They will also include the total cost of each consideration.

Helen Knight will share how she used digital transformation to modernize emergency shelters and foodbanks and how she uses technology to optimize services for people struggling with poverty. Helen will also share ways technology leaders can use their skills to help people today and speak about the challenges ahead for all of us.