Consultancy & Analytics

Traditionally Managed End User Compute environments are impacted by the requirements to have a distributed and mobile workforce.  This has meant the opening up previously securely ‘locked-down’ environments has also led to an increase in attack vectors and data breach exploitations.

Modern Management has become the recognised best practice in delivering fantastic end user experience, whilst not compromising on security or compliance.  Modern Management is the process of adopting the best-in-breed technologies, whilst simultaneously applying key IT strategies to manage endpoints in a consistent and unified.  Modern management has also become a paradigm shift in the way organisations manage laptops, desktops, and mobile devices and streamlines all operational tasks into a single, intuitive interface, saving time, cost and the potential for error or omissions.

Make IT Happen’s Modern Management Accelerator is for clients who require assistance in transforming their End User Compute systems in to a Modern Managed and future proof solution, leveraging Microsoft core technologies, such as Azure AD, Intune, Windows Autopilot and Windows Hello (Biometric Authentication).  The Modern Management Accelerator expediently establishes the ‘As Is’ state and confirm the requirements in order to transform to the ‘To Be’ Modern Management Environment.

Intune is Microsoft’s cloud-based service that provides mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), regardless of device type.  Many of our clients had started small pilots or proof of concepts, but requested Make IT Happen’s validation of Intune ahead of a broad deployment to ensure that it is configured, secured and performant in accordance with Microsoft Best Practices.

For customers seeking to achieve Cyber Essentials Plus across their IT landscape, it is essential that many procedures and processes are implemented and adhered to, in order to achieve the high-standards required.  Make IT Happen standardise your approach, so that your Teams can ensure secure and hardened configurations on Servers, Endpoints, Applications, Mobile Devices, as well as Network Devices.

The Modern Management Security Service from Make IT Happen, is a consultancy-led service which identifies your requirements, and recommends which security frameworks should be employed in conjunction with the standard Microsoft Baselines and Best Practices.

Make IT Happen gather your on-premise Exchange Server environment, to enable a smooth, seamless, effective and non-impactive migration across to Exchange On-Line.  This Readiness Service thoroughly identifies the ‘As-Is’ state of the following; Exchange Mailbox Servers, Exchange Edge Transport Servers, Databases and Database Availability Groups, Certificates, Groups, Exchange Health Check, Hybrid Deployment Pre-Requisites Check, Hybrid Migration Approach Confirmation, Mail Archives, PST Files, Deleted Mailboxes, Mailbox Clean Up, Mailbox Retention, SMTP Services, Shared Mailboxes and Distribution Lists.

Whatever format your applications are in Make IT Happen provide a wide range of Application Services that are of the highest quality, competitively priced and guaranteed for life on the target platform.  Make IT Happen tailors the Modern Management Application Service to you, and spans the application lifecycle from Discovery, through to deployment, retirement and replacement. 

The Make IT Happen Modern Management Group Policy Migration Service initially identifies all Group Policies, analyses them to establish the rationalisation opportunities i.e. which GPO’s are applied and which are relevant, and then migrates them into Intune appropriately. 

Microsoft AppLocker is designed specifically to safeguard your digital assets within your ecosystem, and to minimise the threat of malicious software being introduced into your environment, as well as providing greater control in application management. 

However, as is the case with many tools, the housekeeping of policies and rules are often left wanted.  Change of personnel and the approach taken, can mean that duplicate and unnecessary rules are applied, resulting in conflicting policies and ultimately applications taking a long time to launch and load. 

Make IT Happen can analyse your AppLocker configuration and then remediate it to ensure that it is configured optimally as well as securely.

Group Policies Objects (GPOs) and Group Policy Preferences (GPPs) are used, often extensively, to apply configuration to the endpoint client computers and users.  It is Windows management feature that allows trusted administrators to control multiple users’ and computers’ configurations within an Active Directory environment.  Group Policies configure Organizational Units, Sites, or Domains all from a single management console.  For the last couple of decades this feature has helped administrators in corporate environments save time, by not being forced to go to each device and set up its respective configuration.

Group Policies are typically in less than ideal state.  Nested settings within Group Policy Objects can grow organically, and the amount of time required to unpick and remediate them is typically prohibitive, especially when the IT Team are tasked to ‘keep the lights on’.

Group Policy Objects settings leave potential for confusion as well as exploitation.  

Make IT Happen can analyse your Group Policy Objects, analyse what is still relevant and should still be applied, and as part of a move to Modern Management will migrate them across to Microsoft Intune to ensure that your migrations still has the controls and hardening that you require.  The focus is ensuring that your policies are documented, controlled and managed to ensure a secure configuration that is optimal and non-impactive to your end-user experience.

Irrespective of format, be it MSI, MSIX, App-V, PowerApps or Scripts, Make IT Happen’s Application Specialists provide unbeatable quality, expediency and cost effective application services.  From requirements gathering, developing or engineering applications, to testing and deploying out to your production environment.  We tailor our Application services to your specific requirements and will advise on compatibility, supportability and interoperability. Where processes can be automated, they will be, and you will know that reliable, robust and secure Applications will be deployed to your end-users regardless of the deployment mechanism.

Speak to Make IT Happen about how we can migrate your applications, or augment your current resources should you require short to long-term assistance with the Application lifecycle.