Case Studies

Real Northern Ontario IT Projects

How we've helped businesses across Greater Sudbury and Northern Ontario modernize their IT, from Microsoft 365 migrations to cybersecurity remediation and plant Wi-Fi upgrades. Client names and confidential details are omitted.

Construction · Northern Ontario

Construction Company Document Management Modernization

A Northern Ontario construction firm left an aging on-prem shared drive behind for a structured SharePoint and OneDrive setup, integrated with Microsoft 365 and backed by independent protection.

  • Microsoft 365
  • SharePoint Online
  • OneDrive
  • Intune
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Professional Services · Northern Ontario

Firewall Replacement and Network Upgrade

An end-of-life firewall and a flat network gave way to a segmented, business-grade design for this Northern Ontario professional services firm, complete with MFA-protected remote access and centrally managed endpoint security.

  • Business-grade firewall
  • Centrally managed endpoint protection (EDR)
  • Microsoft 365 MFA
  • Managed switching
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Professional Services · Northern Ontario

Microsoft 365 Migration from Hosted Exchange

This Northern Ontario professional services firm left legacy hosted Exchange behind for Microsoft 365, gaining Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, tighter security, and independent backup along the way.

  • Microsoft 365 Business Premium
  • Exchange Online
  • SharePoint Online
  • Teams
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Manufacturing · Northern Ontario

Business Wi-Fi Coverage Improvement

A patchwork of unmanaged consumer-grade access points was holding this Northern Ontario manufacturer back. We replaced it with a cloud-managed business Wi-Fi design covering the plant, warehouse, and office.

  • Cloud-managed business Wi-Fi
  • Cloud-managed PoE switching
  • 802.1X / RADIUS
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Healthcare / Clinical · Northern Ontario

Cybersecurity Remediation and Hardening Project

A near-miss phishing incident prompted a Northern Ontario clinic to have us rebuild its security baseline. The result: MFA, conditional access, EDR, email security, immutable backups, and documented controls built with PHIPA considerations and cyber-insurance requirements in mind.

  • Microsoft 365
  • Conditional Access
  • Centrally managed endpoint protection (EDR)
  • Business-grade backup with immutable retention
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Managed IT / Professional Services (anonymized) · Northern Ontario

Business Firewall Replacement & Network Cutover

The client's WatchGuard firewall was approaching end of licensing and needed replacing with a Cisco Meraki appliance. We handled the planning, coordinated with the vendor, and managed the on-site cutover, so connectivity was back the same day.

  • Cisco Meraki
  • Business networking
  • Firewall deployment
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Professional Services (anonymized) · Northern Ontario

Hyper-V Server Recovery & Vendor Collaboration

An issue in the Hyper-V environment cut off users at a professional services firm from their virtualized business services. We dug into the environment, worked directly with the software vendor, and got service restored so people could reconnect.

  • Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Windows Server
  • Virtualization
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Legal · Northern Ontario

Workstation Recovery for a Legal Office

A legal-office workstation kept crashing while running business-critical document management software. We performed a full rebuild, reinstalled the firm's legal applications, restored the user profile, and put the machine back into full production use.

  • Windows
  • Primafact
  • PCLaw
  • Microsoft 365
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Professional Services (anonymized) · Northern Ontario

Multi-Server Health Assessment for an Ontario Business

A Northern Ontario business asked us to independently review its multi-server environment. Hardware, operating systems, roles, patching, backups, and monitoring all got audited, and the result was a prioritized remediation roadmap.

  • Windows Server
  • Microsoft Hyper-V
  • PowerShell
  • Datto RMM
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Professional Services (anonymized) · Northern Ontario

Windows Server Patch Management Program

Windows Server patching was inconsistent at this Northern Ontario business, with no reliable reporting to show for it. We set up a controlled patch cadence with staged deployment, scheduled reboot windows, and monthly verification reporting.

  • Windows Server
  • Datto RMM
  • PowerShell
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Professional Services (anonymized) · Northern Ontario

Backup Monitoring Investigation and Recovery Assurance

This Northern Ontario business thought its backups were healthy, until a monitoring alert said otherwise. We investigated the backup jobs, tracked down the root cause, closed the monitoring gap, and validated recovery through restore testing.

  • Managed backup platform
  • Windows Server
  • Hyper-V
  • Independent Microsoft 365 backup
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Local Business (anonymized) · Greater Sudbury

Business Website Launch with Local SEO Foundation

This Sudbury-area business needed a modern website and a genuine local SEO foundation, not a template with a logo pasted on top. We built the site, published on-page SEO fundamentals, optimized their Google Business Profile, and set up analytics for ongoing measurement.

  • Modern web stack
  • Schema.org (LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ)
  • Google Business Profile
  • Google Analytics
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Professional Services (anonymized) · Northern Ontario

Business Workstation Performance Recovery

A business user's workstation had slowed to a crawl, dragging down every task. We diagnosed the real root causes across hardware, storage, Windows, and application layers, then restored healthy performance without a full rebuild.

  • Windows
  • Microsoft 365
  • Datto RMM
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