New Office Move Checklist LOGISTICS > Current office address > Lease/sale date > Is the lease/sale finalized? > New office address > Date of move > Date of official office opening > Have you coordinated the move-date and transportation? > Do you need to coordinate for parking accomodations or passes at the new office? > How will you manage physical guest access to the building/office? > Do you have any large or managed printers that need to be moved? > Are you moving furniture? If so, how long do you plan to have people working remote while it is installed? > Will you have a segmented move, a few departments at a time? > Who will be moving/installing the equipment? APPLICATIONS > Do you have servers on-site at your existing office? Include computer, storage and applications. > Are you moving these offsite or to the new office? > Do you have a company website and/or intranet? • If yes, where are these being hosted? • Will you be using any migration or replication services? > Do you have any Cloud infrastructure today? AWS, Azure, Google, etc.. And are you leveraging Cloud Connects or Express Routes? > Are any on-premise applications migrating to SaaS applications before/during the move? > How do you handle remote user access? Including authorization and security. INFRASTRUCTURE > Are there any concerns of existing services or ongoing contracts? Are you keeping current providers for any service? This includes voice, internet, static IPs, fax, print. • If yes, can the existing provider service your new location? • If yes, have you planned for scheduled downtime to complete the cutover? > Are you considering hosted voice? Have you thought of deployment pre-move? > Have you confirmed whether there are any union riser restrictions (if multi-tenant/floor)? Including subcontractors — build permits and regulations. > Are you replicating your current internal IP addressing scheme at your new office? > Is there any additional equipment needed at the new location? This can include routers, switches, firewalls, access points (anything that needs a refresh or add-on). • Do you have PoE to the workstations, conference rooms, security cameras, etc.? > Will you have video surveillance throughout the office? > How do you plan to handle wireless access within the office? • Do you plan to segment guest Wi-Fi? • Do you need a managed solution? > Will you need structured cabling installed throughout the building/office? > Will you be using Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a, etc.? Will there be IDFs throughout the office? > Are any conference rooms set-up and wired for the applicable equipment needed? > Are there specific audio/video needs in any of the conference rooms? 26
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