MEMPHIS

My name is Chris Blackburn and I am a Microsoft Enterprise Architect, specializing in their Microsoft 365 E5 stack covering Collaboration (Exchange, Teams / OneDrive Sharepoint), Identity (on-prem AD plus AzureAD), Security & Compliance (Defender /Purview), and Modern Endpoint (Endpoint Manager covering SCCM & Intune... I've been an IT consultant for over two decades and make it a goal to empower IT environments I touch and make them the best versions possible. When I'm not client-facing or in my own labs, I'm educating on Microsoft 365 and... My career started in Microsoft Exchange 5.5 / Windows NT 4.0 days, and have worked on projects for small businesses (using all versions of the now retired Microsoft Small Business Server) to large enterprises with over 70,000 users. During the past 16 years of living in Minneapolis, I've also been a part of hundreds of migrations and hybrid deployments into Office 365, as well as cross-organization migrations as part of mergers & acquisitions.