Guides
Technical guides
Written from the work itself — for people who have to make a decision, not for people who need marketing.
Each guide is built as a sequence of steps and cites primary sources — vendor documentation, NIST and NCSC — so every key fact can be checked independently.
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Exchange → Microsoft 365
Migrating from on-premise Exchange to Microsoft 365
The migration methods, what breaks at the joins, and what to check before moving a single mailbox — with references to Microsoft documentation.
What is in the guide
- What is forcing the decision now
- Inventory before you choose a method
- Choosing the migration method
- Licensing: match the plan to the workload
- The other half: file servers
- What actually breaks: DNS, relay, and limits
- Harden the tenant before the first mailbox moves
- Cutover, rollback, and the last on-premise server
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Backup and DR
Backup and DR that restores: RPO, RTO and restore testing
How to define RPO and RTO, why the 3-2-1 rule still holds, and what a real restore test looks like — sourced from NIST and vendor documentation.
What is in the guide
- The two numbers come before the product
- Tier your workloads — one RPO cannot fit everything
- Choosing backup targets: 3-2-1 and what has been added since
- Protect the backup itself: immutability and identity separation
- Where backup systems fail silently
- What a real restore test looks like
- Virtualized workloads have their own rules
- DR is a runbook and people, not a product
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VMware → Proxmox
Checklist: VMware renewal or Proxmox migration
What to check before deciding — licensing, workloads, backup, DR and a rollback plan — written from migrations actually delivered.
What is in the guide
- Understand what actually changed at renewal
- Inventory and assess the current environment
- Decide the target architecture
- Plan licensing and cost
- Re-architect backup and disaster recovery
- Pilot on non-critical workloads
- Cut over in staged waves
- Validate, document, and hand over to operations
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