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8 articles

· 3 min read

SharePoint 2016 and 2019 lost support on July 14

Two versions, one date, and the farm still runs. Find the farms, name an owner per farm, then pick a destination per farm instead of per estate.

#sharepoint#eol#inventory

· 2 min read

The batch job nobody knew

The estate's most dangerous resident is scheduled, unowned, and load-bearing. Finding the batch layer before it finds you.

#inventory#batch#risk

· 2 min read

The inventory always surprises

Nobody has ever handed us an accurate list of what runs. What two weeks of walking the floor finds, and why the surprise rate never drops.

#inventory#legacy#discovery

· 2 min read

Pricing the standing stock

What the estate costs to keep is the number nobody has. Licenses, infrastructure and people-hours, counted the way an appraiser would.

#inventory#cost#licensing

· 2 min read

The server under the desk

Every estate has one. Finding the unracked, unpatched, load-bearing hardware before its retirement finds you.

#inventory#shadow-it#risk

· 2 min read

Retirement wave planning

The systems are not retiring. The people who understand them are, on a schedule HR already knows. Planning for the knowledge exit, not the technology one.

#inventory#people#risk

· 1 min read

Name an owner

One name per system. Not a team, not a committee, a name. The cheapest control in the whole modernization toolkit.

#inventory#ownership