You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you might even pick up a useful nugget or two listening to a real-world enterprise IT architect share the experiences of the past year trying to support his business migrating to cloud services, and sharing the lessons learned from trying to integrate 2 hybrid enterprises into a single, streamlined company. You'll hear where the cloud came through for us, and how we often had to fall back to on-prem services such as FIM, Ping Federate, and ADFS to make the glue which binds it all together.

1. Mergers & Acquisitions
in a Cloud Enabled World
Brian Puhl
Principal Technology Architect

5. 10-15 Acquisitions annually
Small companies, less than 100 users
Dedicated integration team
Skype – 1200 users

9. End User Services: IAM, Exchange, and Collaboration Services
Key Day 1 Deliverables:
• All transferring employees must send email as @microsoft.com
• To-be-identified users must have access to to-be-identified applications
• Executive Communications to all employees
• Special Snowflakes must remain special
Do not do anything which interrupts current business processes

11. Active Directory Active Directory
Microsoft Nokia
Oracle

13. Active Directory

17. If there is one thing this project has
taught me, it is that EVERYTHING
goes through Identity.
- Jeff Wirth
MSIT Integration Lead