IT Consulting · Dallas

IT Consulting in Dallas, Texas

Dallas companies relocate, acquire and expand quickly, and every move raises an IT question with money attached. NetSys IT consulting answers those questions in writing: what you have, what it will cost, what order to do it in and how the cutover will work, from engineers who also carry out the projects, working remotely from our Brooklyn office.

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The short answer

For Dallas companies, NetSys provides IT consulting: technology assessments, office relocation and build-out planning, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, IT due diligence for acquisitions, Copilot readiness, security and compliance roadmaps and virtual CIO reviews. Each engagement is scoped and quoted in advance and runs to milestones, with Central-time change windows, acceptance tests and a written handover. Consulting is delivered remotely, our consultants are not sent on site in Dallas, and local cabling and AV contractors install to our designs. Implementation can roll into a separate month-to-month managed agreement, but it never has to.

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How IT consulting works for Dallas companies

Each engagement opens with a scoping call and read-only access to the systems in question: Microsoft 365, the firewall, servers, licensing portals and vendor contracts. An engineer interviews the people who use the systems as well as the people who pay for them. Floor plans, photos and a short video from your office manager replace the usual walk-through, since NetSys does not do on-site surveys in Dallas. The output is a written deliverable you can act on with or without us: an assessment ranked by risk and cost, a design with a bill of materials, or a migration runbook with dates, owners, rollback steps and tests. Equipment is staged and configured before it ships. Assessment, design and integration work is coordinated from Brooklyn, with meetings and change windows stated in Central time. The project has agreed milestones, acceptance checks and a handover. Ongoing monitoring and help desk require a separately defined managed scope.

Office moves in Uptown, Victory Park and Las Colinas

Dallas office moves rarely go to plan without IT in the room early. Victory Park is getting Goldman Sachs' new tower, Uptown keeps adding Class A space, and the Las Colinas Urban Center in Irving holds the largest concentration of office space in North Texas, so smaller firms sign leases next to large tenants and inherit building rules written for them. Consulting starts before the lease is signed: which carriers already serve the building and its riser, how long a new circuit takes, where the network closet goes, whether the landlord allows a rooftop antenna for cellular backup, and how many access points the floor plan needs. We then write the cabling scope for your contractor, order and stage the firewall, switches and access points, port the phone numbers and plan a weekend cutover so Monday morning works.

IT due diligence and integration after an acquisition

When a Dallas company buys another business, the buyer often learns about the target's IT only after closing. Due diligence fixes that. Before signing, we review the target's Microsoft 365 tenant, devices, backups, security tools, licenses and contracts, and report what will cost money in the first year: unsupported servers, missing MFA, unlicensed software, a single administrator who holds every password. After closing, we plan the integration: a tenant-to-tenant migration of mail, files and Teams, domain changes, one identity in Entra ID, one security stack and one help desk number. Each step has a date, a rollback and a message to staff, so the people you just acquired are not locked out on their first Monday with you.

Cloud, colocation and the Windows Server 2016 deadline

Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2016 on January 12, 2027, and Windows 10 lost support on October 14, 2025, so many Dallas firms are deciding where their remaining servers should live. There are three honest answers, and we price all of them. Some workloads belong in Microsoft 365 or the software vendor's own cloud. Some belong in Azure, sized from real usage rather than the old server's specifications. And some still belong on hardware, either in the office or in a colocation facility; Dallas has an unusual option in the Infomart at 1950 North Stemmons Freeway, a carrier hotel where dozens of networks interconnect. The deliverable compares one-time and monthly costs over three years, the risks of each path and the migration plan for the one you choose.

Security roadmaps, Copilot readiness and the virtual CIO

Consulting is also how firms get ahead of their customers' security questionnaires. We write the roadmap that turns a list of gaps into budgeted quarters: MFA and Conditional Access first, then endpoint detection, backups, logging and policies, mapped to what your clients, insurer or regulator ask for, whether that is SEC Regulation S-P, HIPAA or NIST SP 800-171. Microsoft Copilot projects follow the same pattern. Before licenses are bought, we clean up SharePoint and OneDrive permissions so Copilot cannot surface files people should not see, then pilot it with one team. A virtual CIO keeps the plan honest, meeting quarterly to review progress, renewals, risks and next year's IT budget.

What is included

IT Consulting in Dallas: 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

Large international food importer: the whole platform rebuilt in Azure

An extreme weather event knocked out power and connectivity to a food importer's building and cut a 120-person, three-warehouse business off from suppliers and clients worldwide for days. NetSys ran a two-week assessment of every workload with recovery objectives per system and a cost model comparing an on-premises refresh with Azure, designed a landing zone with hub-and-spoke networks and Entra ID Conditional Access, lifted the SQL environment to Azure SQL Managed Instance, rebuilt file shares on Azure Files, published applications through Azure Virtual Desktop, connected the warehouses by VPN, and layered Defender for Endpoint, Exchange Online Protection and immutable backups on top. The migration took ten weeks with a weekend cut-over.

Read the full case study (120+ employees · 3 warehouses)

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 Dallas client.

What IT consulting costs in Dallas

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 Dallas: FAQs

How does IT consulting work for Dallas organizations?

Remotely, in defined stages. We scope the question with you, get read-only access, interview your team and deliver a written report or design. If you approve implementation, we schedule change windows in Central time, carry out the work over the network, and finish with acceptance tests and a handover stored in IT Glue. Engineers do not travel to Dallas for installs; hardware ships configured and your contractor installs it while we bring it online. Ongoing support afterwards is optional and runs month to month.

What does an IT consulting engagement in Dallas look like?

A typical one has four steps. Discovery collects configurations, licenses and contracts and interviews the people involved. Findings arrive as a written report that ranks each issue by risk and cost. The proposal turns approved items into a project with dates, owners and acceptance checks. Delivery runs in planned change windows with a rollback for each step, and ends with documentation and a review. For an office move or an acquisition, the steps are tied to the lease date or the closing date, so IT is never the reason something slips.

How is IT consulting priced in Dallas?

Per engagement, after scoping, never as an open-ended hourly meter. Assessments are priced from the size of the environment, migrations from the number of users, mailboxes, files and applications, office moves from the floor count and equipment list, and virtual CIO work as a monthly figure. The quote states what is included and what would change it. NetSys does not publish prices, but every quote is in writing before work starts, and changes need your approval.

Can you help us choose between Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace?

Yes, and we start from how your people work rather than from a product preference. The comparison covers the applications you depend on, how documents are shared with clients, device management, security controls such as Conditional Access, compliance needs, licensing cost over three years and the effort to move. Microsoft 365 often wins when line-of-business software and clients expect Office files and Teams, but if Google Workspace fits better, the report says so and includes a migration plan.

Do you offer IT due diligence for an acquisition in Dallas?

Yes. Before you sign, we review the target's tenant, servers, backups, security tools, licenses and contracts, and report the first-year IT cost and risk in plain terms, including anything that should be fixed or priced into the deal. After closing, we can plan and run the integration: moving mail, files and Teams between Microsoft 365 tenants, consolidating identities and security tools, and bringing the acquired staff onto one help desk. The work is quoted after a short scoping call and kept confidential.

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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