Discover
Inventory forests, tenants, users, groups, devices, mailboxes, sites, teams, applications, agents, and connectivity while legal and operating boundaries are still being defined.
M&A and divestitures
AD migration for mergers and acquisitions, under control.
AD migration for mergers and acquisitions connects identity scope, technical readiness, approvals, pilot execution, and evidence while transaction deadlines continue to move.
Executive valueA shared record of what is ready, what is blocked, what requires a controlled pilot, and which owner accepts each migration decision.
Program model
Separate the transaction milestone from technical readiness.
BridgeAD helps the migration team expose dependencies early and prevents planned connectors or untested automation from being silently absorbed into the critical path.
BaselineEntities, environments, owners, constraints.
ClassifyReady, review, blocked, deferred.
PilotRepresentative identity cohort.
DecideExpand, remediate, or stop.
EvidenceReconcile and hand over.
Day-one identity
Target account model, mapping, access assumptions, admin consent, and critical-user validation.
Migration boundary
Directory operations separated from limited or planned Microsoft 365 content-transfer scope.
Governance record
Roles, job events, exceptions, reconciliation, and sign-off evidence retained for review.
Inside the application
Turn deal milestones into migration work that can be inspected.
BridgeAD gives the integration team a shared application record instead of a disconnected spreadsheet and command history. Operators select validated source and destination connections, freeze assessed scope, preview changes, execute bounded jobs, and retain the outcome that supports the next transaction decision.
Map
Resolve destination identities, UPNs, names, organizational units, workload ownership, exceptions, and manual remediation before dependent services are released.
Preview
Run readiness checks and dry runs, identify collisions or unsupported items, and separate supported automation from conditional, controlled-pilot, and administrator-owned work.
Execute
Launch approved jobs and waves, monitor current-item and failure counts, stop at safe boundaries, and retry or remediate without losing the decision trail.
Accept
Reconcile destination state, disposition exceptions, export evidence, record sign-off, and release the next cohort only when agreed thresholds are met.
Transaction readiness
Keep Day 1, separation, and final-state decisions distinct.
A merger, acquisition, or divestiture can require temporary coexistence before consolidation. The application records which outcome is required now, which migration route is validated, and which dependency remains with security, application, endpoint, or business owners.
Access continuity
- Authoritative identity and emergency access model agreed
- Critical users, groups, guests, and applications identified
- Cross-tenant, trust, DNS, and communication owners named
Controlled scope
- AD execution uses a representative controlled pilot with rollback ownership, topology-specific lab validation, documented change controls, and agreed acceptance criteria
- Entra and Microsoft 365 work follows documented permissions and workload boundaries
- Preview, approvals, freeze windows, and stop conditions attached to the run
Evidence and handover
- Failures, skips, unsupported artifacts, and manual work dispositioned
- Destination access and representative user journeys validated
- Reports, audit records, migration certificates, and acceptance retained
Plan the owning route
Use the specialist workflow for each integration dependency.
Identity consolidation, tenant content, and cloud-directory routes have different prerequisites and evidence. Review each application workflow before assigning it to a transaction milestone.
Build the readiness register before committing the cutover.
The first session maps deal milestones to identity dependencies and current capability status.