About Sherif Alghali
Microsoft Certified Trainer and cybersecurity professional focused on M&A tenant migrations
About Me
I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Teaching and giving back to the community is a big part of why I write here.
I work as a cybersecurity professional focused on M&A tenant migrations. I have completed north of 80 migrations. I mostly write about lessons learned from those migrations and Microsoft security engagements.
Outside learning about and teaching others about technology, I'm passionate about travel. I keep notes about my travels and adventures at Random Travel Notes.
Selected Work
Business unit carve-out from a parent holding company. Released the vanity domain from the source tenant, cut over sign-in for roughly 250 users, migrated devices and an on-premises file server, and moved mail routing to a new gateway, inside a single weekend window.
Privileged access and Conditional Access hardening. Deployed PIM for Global Administrator, rebuilt the Conditional Access policy set, remediated an emergency access account that could not have been used in an outage, and wrote KQL detections for admin-initiated credential changes.
Azure Virtual Desktop. Pooled Windows 11 multi-session deployment on Entra-joined session hosts with FSLogix profiles on Azure Files.
Across the rest of the 80+ migrations: Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, tenant-to-tenant consolidations, discovery, and post-migration support.
Tools
BitTitan, Quest On Demand Migration, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Intune, Exchange Online, Active Directory, Azure.
Certifications
Microsoft Expert Level Certifications
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102)
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
Microsoft Specialty Certifications
• Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
Microsoft Associate Level Certifications
• Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
• Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)
• Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Other Professional Certifications
• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)