ABSTRACT
A mixed approach is utilized;quantitative data resulting from the Microsoft Intune telemetry was captured and reviewed, Policy Conflicts and Errors were reviewed against the organic growth of machines that consumed the policy;qualitative data from Global Service Desk, Onsite Admins, and users were collected to determine machine behavior issues. [...]the eventual removal of Domain Controllers will result in $284.45 per month, per machine for the life of the device, the financial benefits will largely multiply, depending on the number of machines that implement changes. Burrows, convincingly states in his article, "VPNvs Cloud: The Case for Sunsetting the VPN1' that "Suddenly, everyone was working from home, and unless you could quickly get your hands on the on-premise hardware required to run traditional VPNs (known as VPN concentrators), companies were hard-pressed to keep workers supplied with secure, reliable connections." [...]Bradbury states the benefit of having "one place [to manage] their access rights to multiple systems can save IT departments much time and energy, not to mention cost" similar to the conversations Cloud was in 5 years ago (Bradbury, 2002 September 12).