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IT Consulting in Manhattan, NY: Office Moves, Migrations and vCIO Advice

A lease renewal, a server running out of support, a merger or a client audit usually prompts the call. NetSys provides IT consulting in Manhattan for firms that need a written plan and engineers who carry it out: assessments with costs, office move planning, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, security programs and a virtual CIO who comes back every quarter.

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The short answer

NetSys provides IT consulting in Manhattan: written assessments, technology roadmaps with costs, office move and buildout planning, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, Windows Server 2016 retirements, security programs and virtual CIO reviews. Every project is run to a written scope with milestones, agreed change windows, acceptance tests and a formal handover. Manhattan is inside our on-site area, so the engineer who designs the work also walks the floor, runs the workshops and attends the cutover, while interviews and design reviews can happen remotely. A consulting project does not include the help desk unless you add a managed agreement.

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How IT consulting is delivered in Manhattan

Consulting starts with a conversation and a walk-through. An engineer from our Park Slope office comes to your suite, usually a 25-minute subway ride to Lower Manhattan or up to 45 minutes to Midtown, to see the comms closet, the circuits, the conference rooms and how people actually work. Interviews with partners and department heads can be held on Teams. From there the work follows a written plan: design documents you approve, change windows agreed with you and with the building, and engineers on site for cutover nights and the first morning after. The people who wrote the assessment run the project, so no recommendation is handed to a stranger to carry out. 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.

Office moves, consolidations and lease decisions

Manhattan firms are moving into less space in better buildings. KPMG's headquarters at Two Manhattan West takes about 450,000 square feet on 12 floors, replacing roughly 800,000 in three Midtown buildings, and smaller firms make the same trade at their own scale. A move is an IT project that starts at the lease, not the week before. We review the work letter for riser access, closet size, power and cooling, check which carriers already serve the new building and how long a new circuit will take, and design cabling, Wi-Fi and conference rooms for hoteling rather than assigned desks. Then we schedule the cutover around freight elevator bookings and the landlord's after-hours rules, test every desk and room before staff arrive, and keep an engineer on the floor for the first morning.

Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 and the migration calendar

Two Microsoft deadlines drive much of the migration work in Manhattan right now. Windows 10 support ended on October 14, 2025, so any desktop still running it gets no security fixes. Windows Server 2016 reaches the end of extended support on January 12, 2027, less than three months away, and plenty of firms still run a file server, a domain controller or an application database on it. The options are a newer server, a move to Azure, or retiring the box by putting files in SharePoint and identity in Entra ID. The right one depends on the applications tied to that server, the size of the file shares and how much hardware the firm wants to keep in a closet it leases. We inventory each workload, confirm the software vendor supports the target, and cut over on a weekend with a rollback plan.

Assessments that show what an examiner or client will see

A consulting assessment should answer the questions somebody else is going to ask. For DFS-licensed firms, 23 NYCRR 500.13 now requires an asset inventory that records each asset's owner, location, sensitivity, support expiration date and recovery time objective, so an unsupported server becomes a finding. Corporate clients send vendor questionnaires, and insurers ask about multifactor authentication and backups. Our assessment covers identity and Microsoft 365 configuration, endpoints, the network, backups and recovery times, licensing, and the vendors that hold your data, with each finding ranked by risk and cost. It ends with a roadmap: what to fix in 30 days, what to budget for this year and what can wait. The free external penetration test, run remotely against your public footprint within an agreed scope, is often the first piece of evidence.

Virtual CIO advice, AI tools and the quarterly review

Many Manhattan firms are too small for a full-time technology executive but large enough to need one in the room each quarter. A virtual CIO from NetSys reviews the roadmap with your partners or leadership team, tracks hardware and license renewals, prepares next year's budget and sits in on vendor decisions such as a phone system, a document platform or a new CRM. Lately the most frequent question is AI: whether to license Microsoft Copilot, what a ChatGPT or Claude business plan would expose, and how to keep client data out of tools nobody approved. We answer it with a permissions review of Microsoft 365 first, because an assistant can surface any file a user can already open, then a written usage policy and a pilot group before a wider rollout.

What is included

IT Consulting in Manhattan: what NetSys delivers

Know what you have

Discovery across every server, cloud tenant, device, circuit and contract, written up in IT Glue so it stays current
Risk register with the ten findings that matter most, each with a fix, an owner and a cost

Decide and build

Cloud strategy with real numbers: keep, refresh or migrate, for each workload, with Azure and Microsoft 365 sized from your data
Microsoft 365 architecture: Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune, SharePoint information design and Exchange Online, in that order

Keep it honest

Virtual CIO reviews each quarter, with a written roadmap, a budget and a list of what changed
Vendor management for the decisions that involve a CRM, ERP, EHR or practice-management vendor

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 Manhattan client.

What IT consulting costs in Manhattan

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 Manhattan: FAQs

Do you provide on-site IT consulting in Manhattan?

Yes. Our engineers come to Manhattan offices for discovery walk-throughs, workshops with partners and staff, site surveys before an office move and the cutover itself, including nights and weekends when the building only allows work after hours. Interviews, design reviews and status meetings can run on Teams when that saves everyone time. Because our only office is in Park Slope, the same engineer can come to your floor several times during a project, and the person who designed the change is there when it goes live.

How is IT consulting priced in Manhattan?

Assessments and projects are quoted after we scope them, and we do not publish prices. A quote reflects the number of users, sites and servers, the applications that have to move, how much after-hours work the building requires, and any compliance standard the result has to meet. Virtual CIO advice usually sits inside an ongoing agreement, which runs month to month. Each quote lists deliverables, milestones and exclusions, so you can compare it line by line with another provider's proposal.

How is IT consulting different from managed IT services?

Managed IT runs your environment every day: the help desk, monitoring, security, backups and vendor calls, billed per user per month. Consulting answers a specific question or delivers a project with an end date, such as whether to move servers to Azure, what a new floor needs, how to pass a client's security review or what an acquisition target's IT will cost to absorb. Plenty of firms use both, with consulting setting the plan and the managed agreement keeping it running after the handover.

How far ahead should a Manhattan office move be planned?

Start when the lease is signed, and ideally before. New circuits can take weeks to install in Manhattan buildings, and landlords often require cabling and closet work to fit their construction schedule and after-hours rules. We want the floor plan early enough to design cabling, Wi-Fi and conference rooms, order equipment, and book freight elevator time and the insurance certificates the building asks for. Moves that start late tend to open with a borrowed hotspot and a difficult Monday.

What should we do before Windows Server 2016 support ends?

List every role the server plays: file shares, domain controller, print server, a database or an application that only runs there. Then decide per role whether it moves to Azure, to Microsoft 365 services such as SharePoint and Entra ID, or to a newer server. Check with each software vendor which platforms they support, and book the cutover well before January 12, 2027, when security updates stop. Our published on-premises to Azure case study shows one way to retire on-site servers; it was not a Manhattan engagement.

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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