September 15, 2026
How to plan and execute an acquisition migration across Microsoft 365 workloads, identities, and devices
An acquisition may be announced in a single day. Bringing two IT environments together is anything but a single migration.
When one organization acquires another, IT teams and MSPs are suddenly faced with a complex set of questions. What needs to move? What should move first? How do you keep users productive while environments coexist? And how do you transition identities, data, and devices without creating unnecessary disruption?
Users need access to email and Teams. Documents may span OneDrive, SharePoint, and file shares. Identities need to work in the new environment. Devices need to follow users. And all of it may need to happen while both organizations continue operating.
For teams that have never managed an M&A migration, knowing where to start can be just as challenging as executing the migration itself.
That’s the focus of our upcoming webinar.
A Real-World Look at an Acquisition Migration
In Merging Without the Mess: A Practical Playbook for M&A IT Migrations Mark Rochester, known as “The Cloud Geezer,” will walk through a current acquisition scenario and show how an IT team or MSP can approach the migration from planning through execution.
Rather than focusing on a single workload, the session looks at the acquisition as a complete IT transition.
Mark will walk through how to assess the environments, determine what needs to move, establish a migration sequence, and plan for the dependencies between workloads, identities, and devices.
The discussion will cover the practical considerations behind migrating Microsoft 365 workloads, transitioning users, and moving workstations into the acquiring organization’s environment.
Where Does MigrationWiz Fit?
MigrationWiz can be a critical part of the workload migration strategy, but an M&A project often involves more than data.
Throughout the webinar, Mark will demonstrate where MigrationWiz fits into the overall migration process and how it can be used to migrate critical Microsoft 365 workloads.
He’ll also show where the broader BitTitan migration stack can extend the journey beyond workloads to address identities and devices.
That broader perspective is important because an acquisition doesn’t end when the last mailbox is migrated. Users still need to sign in, access their data, collaborate with colleagues, and work from their devices.
A Conversation Built for MSPs and IT Teams
This webinar is designed to give MSPs and IT teams a practical view of what it takes to execute an acquisition migration.
Mark Rochester, “The Cloud Geezer,” will walk viewers through the process using a real-world acquisition scenario. Starting with the initial assessment, he’ll show how to determine what needs to move, establish the right migration sequence, and account for the dependencies between Microsoft 365 workloads, identities, and devices.
As the scenario unfolds, Mark will explain the decisions an IT team or MSP needs to make along the way from planning and preparation through workload migration and user and workstation transitions. He’ll also share practical lessons from the field, including where M&A migrations can become complicated and how to avoid common challenges.
Rather than simply demonstrating a tool, Mark takes viewers through the complete migration journey, showing how the different pieces fit together and where BitTitan solutions can help at each stage.
The result is a practical, end-to-end look at an acquisition migration that MSPs and IT teams can use to better prepare for their own projects.
He’ll tackle the practical questions that come up when planning an acquisition migration:
- Where do you start?
- What should move first?
- How do you handle coexistence between the two environments?
- How do you sequence workloads, identities, and devices?
- What can be automated?
- Where do migrations typically get complicated?
- What should MSPs consider when planning the project?
- How do you minimize disruption for users?
The goal is to make a complex M&A migration easier to understand and easier to plan whether you’re an MSP managing the project for a customer or an IT team responsible for bringing two environments together.
From Migration Project to Complete IT Transition
M&A migrations are rarely just about moving data. They are opportunities to establish a more consistent technology environment across the combined organization.
That means thinking beyond the mailbox and considering the complete user experience: data, collaboration, identity, profiles, and devices.
By planning the migration as an integrated process, IT teams and MSPs can reduce manual effort, minimize disruption, and create a more repeatable approach to future acquisitions, divestitures, and tenant consolidations.
Join BitTitan for a practical look at what that process can look like and where BitTitan solutions can help.
Whether your next acquisition is already underway or you’re building your M&A migration playbook for the future, this session will give you a practical framework for understanding what needs to happen and in what order.