Cloud Infrastructure and Management Practice Accelerators

Modernization and Migration

Enterprise Modernization is a collection of guides to help accelerate Cloud Adoption, though assessment and migration of servers to Microsoft Azure, as well as moving workloads from Windows Server 2003 to a Modern Windows Platform. In addition, this material can be used to protect workloads using Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Business events that trigger opportunities to modernize are:

Key Highlights: Guidance for modernization, migration and protection of workloads.

Audience: Partner Consultants and Technical Decision Makers.

When to use: During consulting practice to modernize, migrate and protect workloads.

Outcome: Migration and protection acceleration with prescriptive guidance.

Next Steps

The following IP guides are available:

Download and get familiar with the engagement guidance, tools, and collateral:

Enterprise Modernization - BDM Customer Deck	Use this deck to drive meaningful discussion, with a BDM audience, around Enterprise Modernization, and create demand for the Enterprise Modernization solution with the customer ultimately attending the Cloud Adoption Framework workshop.
Enterprise Modernization - TDM Customer Deck	Use this deck to drive meaningful discussion, with a TDM audience, around Enterprise Modernization, and create demand for the Enterprise Modernization solution with the customer ultimately attending the Cloud Adoption Framework workshop.
Cloud Adoption Framework	The Cloud Adoption Framework Workshop is designed to be ideal for pre-sales engagements where customer cloud opportunities need to be uncovered and adoption accelerated. Through a co-creation style workshop, we jointly develop the customer's cloud adoption goals, desired outcomes and create an adoption plan. This ideation exercise, accomplished in a co-creation fashion, provides the customer with ownership of the output and clearly positions Microsoft as a strategic partner.

Download and get familiar with the Technical Product Delivery collaterals:

ASM to ARM Scenario Guides	Guides for migration from ASM to ARM scenario.
Migration and BCDR Scenario Guides	Guide for migrating and protecting Active Directory.
Modernization Delivery Process Workflows	Process workflows that help decision making.
Microsoft Application and Planning (MAP) Toolkit	Can be used to inventory IT environments for various platform migrations—including Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows 10, Office 2013, Office 2010, Office 365, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 2012 R2, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016.