Identity War Stories: Surviving the Domain Cutover Nightmare!

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Identity War Stories: Surviving the Domain Cutover Nightmare!

IT Mergers & Acquisitions: Real-World War Stories & Survival Guide with Conrad Murray

Merill Fernando

Aug 15, 2025

Transcript

In this episode, I sit down with Conrad Murray, a seasoned expert who lives and breathes the complexities of IT migrations during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

We dive deep into the real-world challenges that companies face, from the political battles of deciding whose tenant to use, to the technical nightmares of migrating three-quarters of a petabyte of data for a major global firm.

Conrad shares some incredible "war stories" about the single hardest part of any migration—the domain cutover—and reveals why the success of a months-long project boils down to just the first four hours of the end-user experience on a Monday morning.

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About Conrad Murray

Conrad Murray is an expert in the IT lifecycle, specializing in complex tenant-to-tenant migrations for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. With over 15 years of experience moving companies to the cloud, Conrad has seen it all, from early BPOS and Lotus Notes migrations to massive, petabyte-scale Microsoft 365 consolidations.

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