Real-world Microsoft 365, Azure and cybersecurity projects
Complex migrations, tenant consolidation, Azure architecture, Zero Trust, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Intune, Purview, SharePoint, Teams and modern workplace transformation.
These are some of the real-world scenarios in which we have helped organizations solve business and technology challenges with Microsoft Cloud. Some clients can be named publicly; others are anonymized because the work was delivered under confidentiality agreements.
Good projects do not start with a tool
Companies rarely come to us because they simply want to “turn on Microsoft Defender” or “build a landing zone.” They come to us because something needs to be fixed: several businesses need to work as one, users are exposed to phishing, Azure has grown without enough control, devices are not meeting security policies, sensitive information is being shared too freely, or the environment has become too complex to manage efficiently.
Our job is to understand that problem first and then use the right parts of the Microsoft ecosystem to solve it. Sometimes the answer is a migration. In other cases it is Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Sentinel, Purview, Azure Policy, a new architecture, or simply correcting a configuration that has grown over time without a clear design.
That is why this page is not limited to migrations. It includes identity, cybersecurity, workplace, data governance, Microsoft Azure, modernization and optimization projects.
Projects across the Microsoft ecosystem
From an email migration to the architecture, security and day-to-day operation of a complete Microsoft Cloud environment.
Microsoft 365 migrations
Tenant-to-tenant, Google Workspace, Exchange, IMAP, OneDrive, Dropbox, SharePoint and Teams.
Identity and Zero Trust
Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, PIM, Identity Protection and least privilege.
Microsoft Defender
Endpoints, identities, email, applications, signal correlation and response.
Microsoft Sentinel
SIEM, SOAR, analytics rules, connectors, playbooks and response automation.
Azure architecture
Landing zones, networking, PaaS, IaaS, high availability and business continuity.
Azure FinOps
Cost control, rightsizing, reservations, tagging, budgets and financial governance.
Microsoft Intune
MDM, MAM, Autopilot, compliance, updates and secure BYOD.
Purview and data governance
Sensitivity, DLP, retention, eDiscovery and information protection.
Microsoft 365 consolidation following a merger
Email, collaboration, identity and security had to move as one coordinated program without interrupting a business operating around the clock.
International organization · Published technical case study
800 users and approximately 12 TB consolidated into a single Microsoft 365 tenant
Following a merger, two organizations needed to start working as one. The challenge was not simply moving mailboxes: Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Entra ID, applications, permissions and domains all had to be coordinated.
Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Entra ID.
Pilot, pre-staging, migration waves, delta synchronization, coexistence and final domain cutover.
Retention, permissions, SSO applications, OneNote, Teams, mail flow rules and throttling.
Outcome: users, data and services were consolidated into one environment, reducing duplication and leaving the organization with a simpler identity and collaboration architecture to operate.
Migrations and tenant consolidation
Projects where the challenge is not simply copying information, but making sure identities, permissions, domains and services still make sense after the move.
More than 1,300 users migrated from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365
The organization had spent years working in Gmail and Google Drive. It wanted to adopt Microsoft 365 without losing historical data and without reproducing a document structure that already needed to be reviewed.
Gmail, calendars and contacts were moved to Exchange Online, preserving the history users needed so the new platform did not feel like a fresh start.
Personal storage was mapped to OneDrive, while shared information was reorganized in SharePoint Online according to ownership and use.
Google sharing models do not map perfectly to Microsoft 365, so groups, owners and external access were reviewed rather than copied blindly.
The organization moved to Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint while retaining access to the historical information that mattered.
Three Microsoft 365 tenants consolidated into one corporate environment
Different companies within the group were operating separate tenants, policies and domains. That made everything from a Teams meeting to user administration, permissions and security harder than it needed to be.
UPNs, SMTP addresses, aliases, synchronized accounts, groups and Microsoft 365 objects were mapped before moving data.
OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and groups were brought into the target tenant progressively while preserving the relationship between users and content.
Migrated and non-migrated users had to coexist during the waves, so mail flow and cross-environment communication were planned carefully.
The group finished with one consistent operating model for administration, collaboration, identity and security.
Document integration across more than 180 SharePoint sites
Years of organic growth sat behind the document estate. Copying everything as-is would simply have moved the old problems into the new environment.
Libraries, versions, volumes, unique permissions, guests, groups and each site’s relationship with Microsoft Teams were reviewed.
Unused sites, duplicate structures and unnecessarily complex permission models were identified before migration.
Data was pre-staged in batches and incremental syncs were run before the final migration windows.
The target model reduced complexity and left SharePoint and Teams in a better position for ongoing governance.
Approximately 8 TB reorganized inside Microsoft 365
The goal was not to replace Dropbox with another place to store folders. The organization needed a clear distinction between content owned by individuals and information owned by the business.
We defined what belonged in OneDrive and what should live in collaborative SharePoint spaces.
Members, owners and external links were reviewed so historical permissions were not replicated without a business reason.
The volume required discovery scans, batch planning, throughput management and close tracking of incompatible items.
The data became part of the same Microsoft 365 platform the company already used for identity, collaboration and productivity.
Business units separated into new Microsoft 365 tenants
Separating a business can be more sensitive than combining one. The challenge is not only deciding what moves, but making sure information belonging to one company does not remain accessible to another.
Users, mailboxes, OneDrive, sites, Teams and groups were classified according to the entity receiving them.
UPNs, SMTP addresses, domains and accounts were designed to avoid collisions during the separation.
Cross-entity access and permissions were reviewed before each migration wave was considered complete.
Each business unit was prepared to operate independently in its own Microsoft 365 environment.
Identity, devices, threats and data protection
Projects where the objective was not to add “more security,” but to reduce specific risks without turning Microsoft 365 into a difficult environment for people to use.
Identity and privileged access redesigned for more than 500 users
The environment worked, but it had accumulated exceptions over time: permanently assigned administrators, partial MFA coverage and different access criteria depending on when each service had originally been configured.
Administrative accounts, authentication methods, MFA, roles and application dependencies were reviewed.
Policies were designed around risk, user profile, device and criticality rather than applying broad rules indiscriminately.
Sensitive roles were moved away from permanent assignment toward a controlled Privileged Identity Management model.
Privileged accounts were exposed for less time and access became more consistent without adding unnecessary friction for day-to-day users.
Greater security visibility across an organization operating from hundreds of locations
The challenge was not only protecting thousands of users and devices. The security team needed a shared view of what was happening across identities, endpoints, email and cloud services.
Endpoint, identity and email protection were brought together so signals no longer had to be investigated as isolated events.
Relevant data sources were centralized and use cases and analytics rules were designed around the organization’s actual risk profile.
Repetitive actions were supported by automation and documented procedures, reducing the dependency on manual intervention.
Analysts gained better context for prioritizing incidents and a more consistent security operation across offices, users and devices.
Data governance and protection for sensitive information in Microsoft 365
The client needed a clearer picture of where sensitive data lived and wanted to reduce the chance of confidential information leaving the organization by mistake.
A sensitivity model was designed to be understandable to employees rather than creating a long list of labels no one could use consistently.
DLP policies started in evaluation and warning modes before blocking was introduced for genuinely risky behavior.
Retention, audit and recovery requirements were reviewed according to the type and lifecycle of the information.
The organization gained greater control over the data lifecycle without forcing users through unnecessarily complicated processes.
Technical remediation program for Spain’s National Security Scheme in Microsoft Cloud
The objective was not simply to prepare documents for an audit. The organization needed to translate ENS requirements into technical controls that could still be operated after the project was complete.
Identities, roles, authentication, logging, endpoint protection and Azure resource configuration were reviewed.
Findings were organized by risk, dependency and effort so the remediation plan could actually be executed.
Priority was given to controls that could demonstrate their implementation through verifiable policies, settings and logs.
The organization gained a structured technical roadmap for progressing toward compliance without losing sight of day-to-day operations.
Email hardening against phishing
Review of mail protection policies, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, impersonation protection, domains and email authentication.
Lower exposure to phishing campaigns and a more consistent security configuration across Exchange Online and Defender.
Improving security posture in Azure
Review of recommendations, insecure configuration, resource exposure, privileged access and policy compliance in Azure.
Important configuration drift no longer depended solely on manual reviews and became part of a more continuous control model.
Architecture, modernization, security and cost control
Azure works best when there is a clear architecture behind it. When every project adds resources independently, the cloud can eventually become harder to govern than the environment it was meant to replace.
An Azure foundation designed to grow without losing governance
Azure services had been added over time as new requirements appeared. The priority was to create a common foundation so that future workloads would not add another layer of complexity.
Management groups, subscriptions, roles, naming, tagging and deployment policies were reviewed and standardized.
Segmentation, connectivity and access between services were redesigned around a more predictable network model.
Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, managed identities and privileged access became part of the platform baseline.
New workloads could be deployed on a platform with common guardrails, better visibility and fewer one-off exceptions.
Azure architecture redesigned for better scalability, performance and predictability
The environment needed to respond better to changing demand without relying on constant manual intervention or introducing unnecessary changes to the application itself.
Resources, dependencies, workload behavior and scaling bottlenecks were reviewed.
The architecture was reorganized to use Azure elasticity more naturally and reduce operational intervention.
Technical improvements were considered alongside financial impact so better performance did not come at the expense of cost control.
The client reported better scaling, more predictable costs and improved performance without needing to redesign the application.
Azure cost control without slowing down technical teams
Monthly spend had increased gradually, but the company could not easily distinguish business-driven growth from waste caused by oversized or abandoned resources.
Cost analysis was reorganized by service, environment, owner and cost center.
Resources whose actual utilization was far below their provisioned capacity were identified and reviewed.
Budgets, alerts, tagging and clear ownership made cloud spend visible before the monthly invoice arrived.
The organization moved from reactive cost reviews to a continuous FinOps process integrated into normal operations.
Hybrid architecture integrating on-premises services and Azure workloads
Not every workload could move at the same pace. The organization needed a stable hybrid period in which cloud and on-premises services could coexist without creating a network that was difficult to troubleshoot.
Routing, segmentation, name resolution and dependencies between cloud and local resources were reviewed.
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and alerts provided a more consistent view of the platform.
Relevant failure and recovery scenarios were incorporated into the design for critical workloads.
The Azure journey could continue without forcing systems to move before they were operationally ready.
Devices, collaboration and a simpler way of working
Microsoft 365 delivers more value when Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune, Entra ID and security stop being separate projects and start operating as one connected workplace.
Centralized management for more than 2,100 devices across a distributed organization
With hundreds of locations, managing devices through local processes made it difficult to maintain consistent policies, versions and security controls.
Device profiles, operating systems, ownership and current management status were reviewed.
Encryption, software versions, configuration and device compliance signals became part of access decisions.
New configurations were introduced gradually so compatibility issues could be identified before they affected the full fleet.
The organization gained greater visibility and a more consistent management model regardless of where each device was physically located.
Collaboration redesigned to reduce dependence on shared folders and email attachments
The company already had Microsoft 365, but much of its day-to-day collaboration still followed the traditional model of shared folders and files sent back and forth by email.
Workspaces were designed according to ownership, audience and content lifecycle.
Teams were structured around real collaboration needs rather than simply creating a collection of channels.
Metadata, permissions, versioning and navigation were redesigned to make information easier to manage and find.
Less reliance on attachments, fewer duplicates and clearer ownership of corporate information.
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Unified device management with Microsoft Intune
Intune was implemented to centralize policies and access controls across a distributed device estate.
The organization unified policies and access controls and later saw fewer support incidents related to devices.
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Microsoft 365 as the organization’s day-to-day workspace
Email and data were migrated alongside the rollout of Teams and SharePoint as the new collaboration environment.
The team was able to start using Teams and SharePoint from the beginning of the new environment.
Automated provisioning for new corporate devices
Intune and Windows Autopilot profiles were designed to reduce the manual work involved in preparing new corporate laptops.
New-device onboarding became less dependent on repetitive manual tasks performed by the support team.
Preparing Microsoft 365 for Copilot adoption
Permissions, sharing, information sensitivity and Microsoft 365 structure were reviewed before extending the use of AI across the organization.
The organization approached Copilot from a better-governed data and permissions baseline rather than treating AI as a simple licensing change.
Some projects allow us to share a great deal. Others do not.
Our work often involves sensitive information about identities, architecture, domains, security, users, infrastructure and internal processes. In some projects the client allows us to use its name and describe the outcome publicly. In others, confidentiality agreements mean we can only share the type of organization, the scale of the environment, the technologies involved and the nature of the work.
We would rather work this way than turn a real project into an over-detailed case study that exposes information the client has not authorized us to publish.
Examples of the environments we have worked with
Every engagement is different, but this overview gives a quick sense of the scale and type of projects MSAdvance delivers.
| Project | Scale | Area | Technologies | Objective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post-merger consolidation | 800 users · ~12 TB | Microsoft 365 | Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Entra ID | Bring two organizations together |
| Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 | 1,350 users · 7.6 TB | Migration | Gmail, Drive, Shared Drives, Exchange, SharePoint | Change productivity platform |
| Three-tenant consolidation | 2,400+ users | Microsoft 365 | Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, Entra ID | Create a common governance model |
| Document platform integration | 1,100+ users · 5.4 TB | Collaboration | SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive | Rationalize and consolidate |
| Dropbox to Microsoft 365 | 200+ users · ~8 TB | Document migration | Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint | Centralize corporate information |
| Zero Trust identity redesign | 550+ users | Cybersecurity | Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, PIM | Reduce identity risk |
| Defender and Sentinel | 2,600+ users · 2,100+ devices | Cybersecurity | Defender XDR, Sentinel, Intune, Entra ID | Improve visibility and response |
| Information governance | 900+ users | Compliance | Purview, DLP, Sensitivity Labels, Retention | Protect sensitive information |
| ENS technical remediation | 130+ users | Cybersecurity | Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID | Build a technical compliance roadmap |
| Azure Landing Zone | Corporate environment | Azure | Azure Policy, networking, RBAC, Defender for Cloud | Governance and scalability |
| Azure optimization | Production workloads | Azure | Cost Management, rightsizing, budgets, tagging | Financial control |
| Endpoint management | 2,100+ devices | Modern Workplace | Intune, Entra ID, Compliance | Consistent device management |
Not every project should be measured in the same way
For a migration, data integrity matters. For cybersecurity, the objective is to reduce risk. In Azure, architecture, performance and cost all matter. In Modern Workplace, people still need to be able to get their work done.
Integrity
We validate data, configurations and relevant exceptions against the agreed project scope.
Risk
Vulnerabilities and configuration gaps are prioritized by real-world impact rather than by the number of alerts.
Identity
Roles, authentication and access controls need to align with the target operating model.
Operations
A solution needs to remain manageable after the project team has finished its work.
Cost
In Azure and licensing projects, financial sustainability is part of the technical design.
User experience
Security and governance have to work alongside the way people actually use the environment.
Documentation
Decisions, configurations and exceptions should still be understandable after delivery.
Validation
We do not assume something works simply because a management console shows a green status.
Understand
Inventory, configuration, risks and dependencies.
Design
Architecture, scope, priorities and success criteria.
Test
Validate a controlled scope before rolling out broadly.
Deploy
Phased implementation and technical monitoring.
Validate
Outcomes, documentation and next steps.
What do you need to solve?
You do not need to know in advance which Microsoft product is the right answer. Tell us what is not working or what needs to change, and we will help turn that requirement into a technical scope.
About MSAdvance projects
Does MSAdvance only work on migration projects?
No. Migrations are one of our specialist areas, but we also deliver Microsoft Azure architecture, cybersecurity, Microsoft Entra ID, Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, Intune, Modern Workplace, SharePoint, Teams, cloud governance and optimization projects.
What Microsoft cybersecurity projects can MSAdvance deliver?
We work on identity and access with Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access and PIM; endpoint, email, identity and application protection with Microsoft Defender; SIEM and automation with Microsoft Sentinel; data governance and protection with Microsoft Purview; device security with Intune; and Azure security posture with Defender for Cloud and Azure Policy.
Does MSAdvance deliver Microsoft Azure projects?
Yes. We work on Azure architecture, landing zones, networking, hybrid connectivity, PaaS and IaaS services, security, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, observability, business continuity, automation and cost optimization.
Can MSAdvance review an Azure environment that is already in production?
Yes. We can assess an existing Azure platform to identify architecture, security, permission, availability, monitoring, performance and cost issues, and then build a prioritized improvement plan.
Does MSAdvance deliver Microsoft Sentinel projects?
Yes. Projects can include architecture design, data connectors, analytics rules, use cases, UEBA, Logic Apps playbooks, response automation, dashboards and optimization of data ingestion.
Can MSAdvance deploy Intune in a large organization?
Yes. Projects can cover Windows, iOS, iPadOS and Android, configuration profiles, compliance, MDM, MAM, BYOD, Windows Autopilot, Update Rings, Conditional Access integration and protection with Microsoft Defender.
Do you work with ISO 27001, GDPR and Spain’s ENS?
Yes. We can translate compliance requirements into technical controls across Microsoft 365 and Azure, identify gaps, prioritize remediation and help produce technical evidence. The exact scope depends on the framework and the responsibilities assigned to each party.
Can MSAdvance work with organizations of more than 1,000 users?
Yes. We work with organizations of different sizes, including environments with more than 1,000 and 2,000 users. Large projects are normally divided into phases, pilots, waves and validation gates to reduce the risk of large-scale changes.
Why are some client names not shown in the success stories?
Some projects are covered by confidentiality agreements. In those cases we show the industry, scale and technologies needed to explain our experience, but not information that could identify the client or reveal sensitive details about its infrastructure.
How can we tell whether you have delivered a project similar to ours?
Tell us roughly how many users you have, your current platforms, Azure environment, device estate, Microsoft 365 services, security requirements and the problem you are trying to solve. From there we can identify comparable scenarios and determine what information is needed to define the scope.
You do not need to have the solution figured out. Start by telling us what needs to change.
It may be a migration, an Azure environment that has grown too quickly, an identity problem, an audit, an Intune rollout, a compliance requirement, or simply the sense that Microsoft 365 could be better organized. Our team will help turn that need into a clear, practical scope.
