Estate planning law firm, Orange
County.
✲ Off a failing office appliance and into Azure over one weekend.
✲ The situation
A small estate planning and special needs planning firm in Orange County ran its servers on an on-site appliance. From March onward, every time that appliance dropped offline, it took the servers down, and with them the phones and the printers. In September it failed several times in a few weeks.
✲ Key issues we uncovered.
- Dedicated Engineering Pod
- Onboarding & Environment Discovery
- Monitoring, Hardening & Response
- Compliance & Audit Support
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
One device was a single point of failure for the servers, the phones and printing.
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The phone system depended on name resolution from an office server, so a server outage also meant nobody could take a call.
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The firm still needed its legacy practice data for record keeping, so the old servers couldn’t simply be switched off.
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The battery backup in the server room was failing.
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✲ A clear plan. Step by step.
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Set up a new, dedicated Azure environment for the firm.
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Moved the application server to Azure first, as a test.
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Pulled the domain controller off the failing appliance over the weekend, prepared it for Azure with a script, and uploaded it.
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Connected the office to Azure with a site-to-site VPN and pointed the office network at the domain controller in Azure.
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Had the firm unplug the old appliance permanently.
✲ What happened
Four days after the decision to move, both servers were running in Azure and the firm was back online by noon on Monday. The phones and printers no longer depend on a box in the office, and the legacy data stays available, isolated, for as long as the firm needs to keep it.
4 days
from decision to live
2 servers
moved
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