Alienstech Office Relocation
Moving a working office without losing a day, planned around the two things that cannot be rushed: circuits and cabling.
Relocating an office is a scheduling problem more than a technical one. Servers, phones, printers and internet all have to stop at one address and start at another, in an order that keeps the business able to work.
The parts with long lead times are the internet circuit and the cabling at the new site. Everything else can be arranged around them if they are started early.
Sound familiar?
- The move is in three weeks and the new internet is not ordered
- Nobody has established what can be moved and what has to be replaced
- The server has to move but the business cannot be down for a day
- Phones, alarm and cameras all belong to different vendors
- The old site has to be handed back clear
- Staff need to keep working through the move
How Alienstech handles it
Planning starts with a survey of both sites and a written sequence: what moves, in what order, on what date, and what has to be working before the next step begins. Equipment that will not survive the move is identified early, because that is a purchase, not a surprise.
Where downtime has to be near zero, the new site is built and tested in parallel and the cutover happens out of hours. Servers move last, once the network they land on is proven.
After the move, the old site is decommissioned properly: equipment recovered, circuits cancelled so billing stops, and documentation updated to the new addresses and layout.
What you get
- A written move plan with a sequence and dates
- Circuits and cabling started early enough
- Cutover scheduled out of hours where downtime matters
- One person coordinating every technical vendor
- The old site closed out and billing stopped