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Seamless Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations
23:34
Date: May 21st
This Skills 101 on-demand session walks through how On Demand Migration (ODM) supports practical tenant-to-tenant migration scenarios, including mergers, reorganizations, and divestitures. You’ll learn how ODM helps teams plan the migration, prepare source and target tenants, move Mailbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams workloads, keep users productive throughout the process, and handle post-migration cleanup using the Desktop Update Agent. By the end, you’ll have a clearer technical understanding of how tenant-to-tenant migrations work in practice and how ODM helps reduce risk, surprises, and manual effort along the way.
The real path to Entra-only device management
Date: March 19th
Transitioning to Entra-only device management requires the right planning around migration strategy, device readiness, and cloud architecture. In this session, we walk through how organizations evaluate migration vs. modernization, prepare endpoints for transition, and move devices into Entra-managed workflows, while exploring where AI-driven management can improve visibility, automation, and operational efficiency.
Consolidating Your Legacy Environments: From Complexity to Clarity
38:44
Date: January 22nd
Managing multiple Active Directory forests, domains, or Microsoft 365 tenants can add unnecessary complexity and slow teams down. In this practical, hands-on Skills 101 session, you’ll learn how to simplify and unify legacy environments while maintaining control, security, and productivity. The session walks through how to assess your current state, identify administrative overhead, security gaps, and hidden costs, and plan a clear path forward by determining what to move, when to move it, and how to minimize disruption. You’ll also learn proven strategies to consolidate environments and design transitions that keep users productive throughout the process.
Platform Modernization Made Practical
Date: October 23rd
Moving to the cloud isn’t a “someday” project- it’s happening now, and modernizing legacy Active Directory environments can be tricky with old infrastructure, complex identity dependencies, and potential user disruption. In this on-demand session, we cut through the complexity, showing how to overcome real-world blockers, move identity and access management to the cloud with Microsoft Entra ID and Intune, and accelerate secure, cloud-native adoption. Whether you’re planning a full cloud transition or optimizing a hybrid environment, you’ll gain actionable insights to modernize confidently, reduce risk, and strengthen security.
Deep dive into On Demand Migration permissions
Date: September 25th
This Skills 101 session breaks down the complexities of migration permissions and shows you exactly how to manage them with confidence. Learn which Microsoft 365 and Azure AD permissions are essential for successful migrations, how to fine-tune security settings without sacrificing functionality, and the best practices for customizing application consents while staying compliant. We’ll also cover strategies for maintaining control of your environment, so your migration stays secure, efficient, and disruption-free.