Auri Solutions is moving to establish a shared IT infrastructure platform for authentication, messaging, and collaboration. To support this, the company is undertaking an Active Directory Migration Project to consolidate its existing Active Directory domains and migrate them to a new centralized infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure. This project aims to gather information on the current Active Directory setup, review consolidation approaches and risks, and generate a report recommending a high-level consolidation plan, required activities, timeline, and tools.

1. Active Directory Migration
Planning
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2. . Introduction
Auri Solutions Limited is moving toward establishing a rationalized IT
architecture which will provide an Enterprise Shared Services platform for
common services such as authentication, messaging and collaboration. The
Active Directory Migration Project is being undertaken to provide the base
infrastructure on which these services will be provided. In addition, creating a
Centralized Data Center Support Model for a Microsoft Azure virtualized Server
Infrastructure is a key cost-saving driver being undertaken at the organization
and is directly linked to the Active Directory Migration Project.

3. 1.1 Executive Summary
The objectives of this engagement, as indicated in the Statement of Work, are to deliver solution
recommendations with consideration for the following items of scope and drivers to the business:
 Gather and review the existing Active Directory Forest and Domain implementation and
associated documentation provided by the client.
 Review the various approaches for consolidation and make recommendations of risk
mitigation strategies and tool selection.
 Generate an executive report outlining high level consolidation approach, activities, and
toolsets.
 Generate high level work effort, tasking, and timeline for domain consolidation effort.