As part of the team leading the migration effort from Microsoft IT's on-prem servers to The Cloud, we've collected a number of best practices that can save your organization weeks or months of effort & untold dollars in development & implementation costs.  Those who think the only tool required to move SQL instances from the datacenter to IaaS VMs is a forklift have a hard lesson to learn.  In fact, it's a bit challenging than that.  This session will introduce the Top 10 Lessons Learned in the MSIT migration effort & provide actionable guidance that customers can begin using immediately.    Session Goal 1: Understand that forklifting applications to the Cloud has unexpected challenges. Session Goal 2: Understand that many fundamental best practices which have served us well on-prem remain important—& now we have new nuances to master. Session Goal 3: Understand the value of leveraging MSIT's lessons learned has the potential to save an organization weeks or months of time & hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars. Additional Notes: This is an exciting topic the work for which I'm intimately involved.  I'm extremely enthusiastic about sharing the fruits of our efforts with the Community.