Manage The guidance in the last phase of the Cloud Adoption Framework serves two purposes. On the one hand it helps you to develop the business and technical approaches needed to provide cloud management that powers ongoing operations and provides examples of actionable operations management approaches that represent common experiences often encountered by customers. On the other hand, it helps you create personalized management solutions based on business commitments. Delivering on a cloud strategy requires solid planning, readiness, and adoption ..read more

Governance The guidance in this section of the Cloud Adoption Framework provides examples of actionable governance guides that represent common experiences often encountered by customers. Each example encapsulates business risks, corporate policies for risk mitigation, and design guidance for implementing technical solutions. It can help you to create personalized governance solutions that meet a variety of business needs. These needs include the governance of multiple public clouds through detailed guidance on the development of corporate policies, processes, and tooling ..read more

Adopt The adoption phase consists of two steps. On the one hand the “Cloud migration in the Cloud Adoption Framework” and on the other hand the “Cloud innovation in the Cloud Adoption Framework”. But let us start with the first step. Migrate The first step is the suggested path for your first migration to Azure, as it will expose you to the methodology and the cloud-native tools most commonly used during migration to Azure ..read more

Ready Before adoption can begin, you must create a landing zone to host the workloads that you plan to build in the cloud or migrate to the cloud. The ready phase ensures that the environment is prepared for the cloud adoption plan. Before you start building and deploying solutions using Azure services, you need to prepare the environment. To organize one’s resources, management hierarchies within the Azure platform, well-thought-out naming conventions, and resource tagging can be used ..read more

Plan In the previous section, we talked about the first phase of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. In the next phase we will deal with the development of a cloud adoption plan. Cloud adoption plans convert the aspirational goals of a cloud adoption strategy into an actionable plan. Digital Estate Digital estate is an important point when it comes to planning. A digital estate is an abstract reference to a collection of tangible owned assets ..read more

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure The Cloud Adoption Framework is the One Microsoft approach to cloud adoption in Azure, consolidating and sharing best practices from Microsoft employees, partners, and customers. The framework gives customers a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that help shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes during their adoption effort. This guidance aligns to the following phases of the cloud adoption lifecycle, ensuring easy access to the right guidance at the right time ..read more

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Lifting the Organisation into Office 365 offers a vast amount of challenges. One of the must fundamental ones is the decision, where the company data should be located. The status quo usually is a file server on Prem, because the protocol (SMB) is very well supported by the majority of applications. From an IT Pro point of view, Fileserver are well maintainable, easy to setup and handy for disaster recovery. However, File Server storage is not handy in cloud scenarios - almost no mobile operating system is supporting file servers, neither do mobile Microsoft Office applications ..read more

Adding guest users in Active Directory is (especially since MS Teams) common practice and well documented (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/add-external-user?view=azure-devops). You can profit from the 1:5 license (one O365 License gives you five guest user rights), but you have some limitations, especially you cannot assign administrator roles (like SharePoint Farm Admin roles) cannot enumerate AD Users cannot own teams etc. This often leads to additional user accounts - beside your guest user, external partners get another user account from their custome ..read more

This code of conduct applies for all events organized by Matthias Gessenay for the Global AI Bootcamp, Global AI Nights, Azure Professional Workgroup and AI and Intelligent Cloud Meetups. Matthias Gessenay and the event team is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form ..read more