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IT Consulting in Brooklyn, NY: Assessments, Roadmaps and Projects

Some IT problems are projects, not tickets: a server reaching the end of support, an office moving to the Navy Yard, two companies merging their email. NetSys consults for Brooklyn businesses on exactly those decisions, with engineers who write the assessment, price the options and then run the project they recommended.

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The short answer

NetSys provides IT consulting in Brooklyn: written assessments, costed technology roadmaps, Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Azure migrations, network and office designs for moves, security and compliance programs, IT due diligence and virtual CIO reviews. Each project is quoted after scoping, with milestones, change windows, acceptance checks and a handover. Our engineers work out of the Park Slope office and come on site for walk-throughs, workshops and cutovers. A consulting project does not automatically include ongoing help desk support; that is a separate managed agreement if you want one.

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How IT consulting is delivered in Brooklyn

Consulting starts on site. An engineer walks the office, opens the closet, sits with the people who use each system and reads the contracts, because a roadmap built from a questionnaire misses the server under someone's desk. Interviews, design reviews and status meetings can then run on Teams, and the engineer returns for the work that needs hands: cabling checks, migrations scheduled for a Friday night or a weekend, and the morning after a cutover when staff sign in for the first time. Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO are 10 to 20 minutes from our office, so being in the room for those moments is part of the plan rather than an extra. Assessment, design and integration work is coordinated from Brooklyn, with meetings and change windows stated in Eastern time. The project has agreed milestones, acceptance checks and a handover. Ongoing monitoring and help desk require a separately defined managed scope.

Windows Server 2016 and the projects due in 2026 and 2027

Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2016 on January 12, 2027, and Windows 10 support already ended on October 14, 2025. Plenty of Brooklyn offices still run a 2016 server for files, a database or an older business application. After the deadline it stops receiving security updates, and insurers and auditors notice. The consulting question is where each workload should go: files to SharePoint and OneDrive, applications to Azure or to the vendor's hosted version, and only what truly has to stay on site onto new hardware with a current Windows Server. We inventory what runs on the machine, check each vendor's supported versions, price the options and schedule the move ahead of the deadline, not the week after it.

Moving into the Navy Yard, Industry City or a new Downtown lease

Office moves in Brooklyn are often moves into industrial space. The Navy Yard now holds more than 550 businesses, Industry City and the city-run Brooklyn Army Terminal keep leasing space to manufacturers and studios, and Downtown Brooklyn offers office floors in newer mixed-use towers. Each building has its own riser rules, landlord-approved cabling contractors and carrier options. We get involved at lease review: confirming which carriers can serve the suite, ordering circuits early because installation dates slip, specifying cabling and the closet, planning Wi-Fi from the floor plan, and scheduling the cutover so the old office stays live until the new one passes its acceptance checks. On move weekend an engineer is on site, and by Monday the help desk is ready for the first questions.

Assessments that end in a costed roadmap

An assessment is only worth paying for if it ends in decisions. Ours covers every device, account, license, server, backup, network component and vendor contract, plus a security review against recognized controls such as multifactor coverage, patch status, admin rights and backup isolation. The deliverable is a written report with a prioritized list: what to fix this month, what to budget for this year, what can wait, and a price and a date for each item. Assessments often turn up two kinds of savings along the way: licenses nobody uses and subscriptions that duplicate each other. If you then want a virtual CIO, the same engineer runs a quarterly review that keeps the roadmap current and the budget honest.

Due diligence, mergers and splitting a business

Deals create IT work on a deadline. Before an acquisition closes, we inventory the target's accounts, licenses, contracts, backups and security posture and report the risks that need a price, such as an unsupported server, an unprotected Microsoft 365 tenant or a vendor contract that cannot be assigned. After closing, two Microsoft 365 tenants have to become one, with mailboxes, OneDrive and Teams moved without lost mail. When a business splits, the reverse happens: shared accounts, domains and files are divided cleanly. Family businesses in Brooklyn passing to a new generation often need a lighter version of the same exercise, finding out who holds the admin passwords and the domain registration before anyone needs them.

What is included

IT Consulting in Brooklyn: what NetSys delivers

Assessment and roadmap

A written assessment of every system, account, vendor and risk, produced from discovery rather than a questionnaire
A 12-to-36-month technology roadmap with costs, sequencing and the decisions that depend on each other

Projects, designed and run

Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations planned around identity first, with Entra ID, Conditional Access and Intune designed before data moves
Network and office designs: Cisco Meraki or Fortinet firewalls, segmentation, Wi-Fi and failover, specified before the fit-out starts

Ongoing advisory

Virtual CIO service: a quarterly review with leadership covering risk, spend, projects and what changed
IT due diligence for acquisitions, leases and vendor decisions, with findings in writing

Published case study

On-prem servers to Azure and OneDrive to SharePoint

Two migrations in one engagement. The client's servers lived in the office, so the business lived with the office's power, cooling and hardware age, and years of files sat in individual OneDrive accounts shared ad hoc. NetSys assessed and sized each workload and moved it into Azure with identity anchored in Entra ID, designed a SharePoint structure of sites by function and permissions by role before moving a single file, migrated the OneDrive estate into it, set backups for both platforms and took on day-to-day management. The write-up is limited to the scope delivered, with no outcome figures claimed.

Read the full case study

From our client work

IT consulting work for other clients

Real estate
Commercial property management company
SharePoint migration of 800 GB of leases, vendor records, and property documents, with separate access permissions for 12 property teams.
SharePoint & OneDrive Migration IT for Real Estate and Property Management

Client names are withheld. These examples were chosen for the work involved, not for where the client is, so none is presented as a Brooklyn client.

What IT consulting costs in Brooklyn

Consulting is priced by the project or by the review rather than by the hour: an assessment has a fixed price based on the size of the environment, a migration is quoted from the workload inventory, and virtual CIO advisory is a monthly figure that scales with how many reviews and decisions a year you need. What moves the number is the number of systems and sites, the compliance standard in play and whether we are also managing the environment afterwards. Every quote is written from discovery, and the terms run month to month.

How the monthly fee is built

Who this fits, and who it does not

Best fit: 10 to 150 employees, a decision on the table that involves cloud, an office move, an acquisition, a compliance program or a system nobody trusts, and leadership that wants options with numbers rather than a sales deck.

IT Consulting in Brooklyn: FAQs

Do you provide on-site IT consulting in Brooklyn?

Yes. Our only office is in Park Slope, and on-site time is built into Brooklyn consulting projects: discovery walk-throughs, workshops with staff, network surveys and cutovers. Meetings and design reviews can run remotely when that suits you better. Engineers schedule visits around your hours and the building's access rules, and the engineer who writes the assessment is the one who leads the work that follows from it.

How is IT consulting priced?

By the project or the review, not by an open-ended hourly meter. After a scoping conversation we quote an assessment based on the size of the environment, a migration from the workload inventory, and virtual CIO advice as a monthly figure. The number of users, systems and sites, the compliance standard involved and how much of the work must happen after hours are what move each quote. Every quote lists its deliverables and the acceptance checks that close it.

Can you move our files from an old server to SharePoint or Azure?

Yes, and the Windows Server 2016 deadline makes it a pressing project for many Brooklyn offices. We map the existing shares and permissions, clear out what nobody has opened in years, and design SharePoint sites and Teams around how departments actually work. Applications that still need a server move to Azure. Files are copied in stages, users are shown the new layout, and the old server stays read-only for a period before it is retired.

What is a virtual CIO, and does a 15-person firm need one?

A virtual CIO is a senior engineer who owns your technology plan part-time: the roadmap, the budget, vendor decisions and the questions from your insurer or auditor. A 15-person Brooklyn firm rarely needs a full-time IT leader, but it does need someone to decide when laptops get replaced, whether a new software platform is worth the money, and how to answer a cyber insurance questionnaire honestly. In practice that is a quarterly meeting with a written update, plus availability when a decision comes up in between.

Do we have to sign a managed IT agreement after a consulting project?

No. A consulting project ends with a handover: updated documentation, admin credentials stored in your password manager, a list of open items and a walk-through with whoever will support the systems next, whether that is your own staff, another provider or NetSys. If you want ongoing support from us afterward, that is a separate agreement with its own scope, and it runs month to month like every NetSys agreement.

Engineers, not a sales deck

Bring the decision you are stuck on.

A cloud move, a merger, a compliance deadline, a system nobody trusts. Tell us what you run and what has to change, and an engineer comes back with an assessment, options with real numbers and the order to do them in.

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