IT‑IS‑Networking
Equipment › Software & Platforms

Microsoft

Windows Server and Active Directory from NT 3.51 onward, SQL Server behind the early in-house systems, and Azure as the second cloud in the estate.

Product lines and other names: Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, SQL Server, Entra, Intune, Microsoft 365, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, SharePoint

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 13 disciplines Microsoft carried, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that named this manufacturer is counted, so this is the shape of what it carried rather than of the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Active Directory as the identity the network estate eventually authenticated against — the multi-factor close of the device administration program in 2023 was against it. Windows Server estates from NT 3.51. SQL Server under the change management system built in-house for the utility in 2000. Azure for the Office of General Counsel migration, and Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365, Entra and Intune across the consulting portfolio.

Intune before that, on the municipal estate: piloted against the organization’s own conditions, deployed alongside desktop engineering, carried through change governance and handed over with the operating team trained on it. Systems Management Server, its ancestor, was pushed out to remote hospital sites in 1997.

The analytics estate was the same stack one layer up: SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, SQL Server Reporting Services and a SharePoint 2013 front end, with development and quality assurance environments alongside production.

Where it appears

Declared on each entry rather than listed here, so this page cannot drift from the work it describes. What each entry named is quoted as it stands, with how much of that project rested on it and what stands behind the claim beside it. The first of those drives the height of the surface above.

NRI North America (formerly Core BTS)

City of Jacksonville

Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)

Also searched as

  • landing zone
  • hybrid cloud
  • multicloud
  • workload placement
  • cloud strategy
  • UEM
  • MDM
  • unified endpoint management
  • device management
  • patch management