When the home-grown system running your mission-critical work turns unstable, every day you depend on it carries real risk. One organization faced exactly that. Its business-critical SharePoint portfolio, built on aging Microsoft technology, had become unstable and hard to troubleshoot. Dozens of custom applications and hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy code still had to keep working through any transition. Leadership needed a resilient, secure place to land, without the cost of a fully redundant, high-availability build-out.
BluJuniper started by getting to the root of the instability. We ran a root-cause analysis, documented the existing architecture in full, and delivered a formal risk assessment with a disaster recovery and contingency plan. We then designed a new SharePoint Server Farm on Microsoft Azure, laying out redundancy, scalability, and cost options for leadership to weigh. From there we built and executed the plan, migrating the legacy portfolio, moving identities to Azure Active Directory, and taking on ongoing server and application management.
Technology & Methods Used
Microsoft SharePoint Server Farm, Microsoft Azure, Azure Active Directory, disaster recovery and contingency planning, data privacy and security controls
About the Client
This work reflects enterprise SharePoint modernization delivered across BluJuniper's federal and commercial client base, where aging on-premise environments are assessed, redesigned, and migrated to governed cloud hosting.
Industry
Federal Government, Commercial Enterprise
Outcomes at a Glance
30+ Applications Migrated to Azure
Ongoing Hosting and Security Assurance
Business Problem
- Unstable Legacy Platform: A business-critical SharePoint application portfolio built on aging Microsoft technology had become unstable and hard to troubleshoot.
- Large Custom Footprint: Dozens of custom applications and hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy code had to keep functioning through the transition.
- Cost-Conscious Resilience: The organization needed a resilient, secure environment without the expense of a fully redundant, high-availability build-out.
Solution Approach
- Root-Cause and Architecture Documentation: Analyzed system instability and fully documented the existing architecture.
- Risk and Recovery Planning: Delivered a formal risk assessment and a disaster recovery and contingency plan for the legacy portfolio.
- Azure Farm Design: Designed a new SharePoint Server Farm on Azure with redundancy, scalability, and cost-management options for leadership.
- Migration and Identity Cutover: Executed legacy portfolio migration and identity migration to Azure Active Directory, with ongoing server and application management.
Value Delivered
BluJuniper moved more than 30 applications off an unstable legacy platform and onto a resilient, secure, Azure-hosted environment. We layered in data privacy and security controls that closed the specific risk gaps the assessment had flagged.
The work did not end at cutover. BluJuniper continues to provide hosting, configuration, and application support, keeping the environment stable and secure as needs change. A one-time migration became a lasting managed-hosting relationship.
Where This Fits in North*Star©
Project Delivery / SDLC
This reflects the Project Delivery and SDLC discipline. BluJuniper carried dozens of custom applications through a governed, engineering-led move to Azure, and still runs the environment as a managed service.