A leading UK mental health charity needed to modernise its infrastructure to better support growing demand for services. Moving from a private cloud to Microsoft Azure would improve scalability, security, and efficiency while enabling modern collaboration tools across the organisation.
🔎At a glance
- UK-based mental health charity
- Supports children, young people, and families
- Moving from private cloud to Azure
- Need to improve scalability and licensing efficiency
🚨The challenge
The organisation wanted to shift from a legacy private cloud environment to Azure to better use Microsoft 365 licensing and improve scalability and compliance.
They needed a structured migration that minimised disruption while enabling future growth.
💡The approach
The migration began with a pilot moving users from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop, followed by a phased rollout into production.
The programme included:
- Scaling Azure Virtual Desktop to thousands of users
- Preparing tenant-to-tenant migration for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Intune
- Designing an environment optimised for performance and compliance
☑️The outcome
- 100% migration success rate
- Significant cost savings on infrastructure
- Improved scalability and collaboration tools•Positive feedback from internal IT leadership
⚡️Why this matters
- Non-profits need scalable infrastructure without increasing costs
- Azure Virtual Desktop enables secure remote working at scale
- Phased migration reduces risk in complex cloud transitions
