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Pre-migration planning, licensing compliance, ROI reality checks, and lessons learned from real-world Azure migrations at scale.
The migration trap: Organizations design Azure landing zones, engage consultants, and deploy Azure Migrate—then discover 6 months in that nobody knows which applications they own, who maintains them, or whether they should even migrate.
After managing migrations at enterprise scale, I've learned that successful migrations require three things Microsoft doesn't tell you:
This hub contains the pre-migration checklists, licensing guides, and failure patterns I've learned from real enterprise migrations. No theory. Just what actually determines whether migrations succeed or fail.
The 55-question assessment that prevents $2M budget overruns.
2025-11-12
Before migrating to Azure: 55-question spreadsheet that exposes hidden costs, missing dependencies, and licensing gaps. Includes app inventory template, network requirements checklist, 18-week implementation timeline, and ROI calculator. Free download prevents $2M+ overruns.
2025-11-14
Complete Azure migration checklist: 80% of migration failures happen because you didn't ask these 8 questions BEFORE starting. License keys, vendor contacts, firewall rules, certificates - the enterprise migration checklist that actually works.
2025-09-24
The biggest Azure migration mistakes enterprises make: moving applications nobody understands. Real migration failures, institutional knowledge loss, and what actually works.
Why finance's ROI calculation is wrong and what actually changes.
2025-10-14
Finance compares Azure VM costs to server costs and declares cloud expensive. They're missing the entire point: no VAR meetings, no hardware refresh, provision in minutes instead of months. The value isn't in the spreadsheet.
2025-10-15
Finance celebrates retiring 100 apps instead of migrating them. Six months later: Why are we still paying for the old data center? Because 'Retire' isn't a decision, it's a $300K decommissioning project nobody budgeted for.
Real migration patterns, failures, and what works in production.
2025-10-15
Microsoft's official migration tool assumes single domains and flat networks. Here's why it's architecturally incompatible with multi-domain hybrid environments.
2025-11-03
Don't just upgrade your scripting language. Upgrade your entire admin workflow. The transition from PowerShell 5.1 + ISE to PowerShell 7 + VS Code is the only way to effectively manage a modern, high-volume Azure environment.
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