Avanade + Quest: Avoiding common merger & acquisition migration risks

In this short video, ivision experts Michael Trapnell, Principal Consultant, and John Oppel, Field CTO of the Microsoft Group, discuss how Quest’s broad portfolio of M&A integration solutions enables ivision to have the flexibility to meet its customers’ needs. From establishing a period of coexistence leading up the migration, and ensuring the migration completes on-time and on-budget, without it adversely affecting end user productivity. 

Active Directory security is extremely important during M&A migrations, because they’re not one-time events, according to ivision experts Michael Trapnell, Principal Consultant, and John Oppel, Field CTO of the Microsoft Group. Watch this video to see why periods of change, like migrations or divestitures, are prime opportunities for businesses to develop better security models, improve security policies, and de-risk M&A migrations.

Avanade and Quest have teamed up to help organizations like yours simplify moving Microsoft 365 tenants as the result of a merger, acquisition or divestiture. In this short video, Donovan Philips, North American Workplace Lead for Avanade, and Becky Cross, Technical Product Manager for Quest, discuss how the two organizations work together to not only successfully execute the M&A migration from start to finish, but also resolve any issues that come up along the way – ensuring that you execute predictably, with higher velocity, and less risk.

You may know your own IT environment like the back of your hand. But if you have limited experience with the environment being integrated, you may be opening up both organizations to more risks. In this video, Donovan Philips, North American Workplace Lead for Avanade, and Becky Cross, Technical Product Manager for Quest, discuss the importance of knowing all the potential pitfalls to maintain security during the migration and improve your security stance in the end state.

In this video, Donovan Philips, North American Workplace Lead for Avanade, and Becky Cross, Technical Product Manager for Quest, discuss the most critical lessons learned during M&A migrations, including the need for advance planning, thorough security due diligence, and a complete understanding of your current state.

True Active Directory cyber resilience can only be achieved when you can restore the entire directory and fully reclaim control. Even if you can restore your on-premises Active Directory, what will happen when you need to re-sync those on-premises identities with those stored in the cloud? See the potential risks in this short video featuring Aaron Greer, Midwest Region Lead Security Architect for Avanade, and Bryan Patton, Principal Solutions Consultant for Quest.

In this short video, Aaron Greer, Midwest Region Lead Security Architect for Avanade, and Bryan Patton, Principal Solutions Consultant for Quest, discuss how to speak in the C-suite language. By focusing on C-suite priorities – maximizing profits, avoiding risks, etc. – you can help them understand the importance of having a fully protected Active Directory landscape.

In this short video, Aaron Greer, Midwest Region Lead Security Architect for Avanade, and Bryan Patton, Principal Solutions Consultant for Quest, discuss why putting controls in place sooner rather than later can greatly simplify your journey to true Active Directory cyber resilience. The urgency can’t be higher, especially when you consider that ransomware operators are always using new tactics, even often working with internal access brokers to use valid credentials to gain a pathway.

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