Younan Properties: Real Estate IT, Azure Cloud & Microsoft 365 Case Study
How a 120-user Los Angeles commercial real estate firm moved fully to the cloud — Azure identity, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and managed EDR/MDR security — with Advanced Networks.
The challenge
Younan Properties was running a growing commercial real estate operation on an aging, on-premise foundation that no longer matched the firm’s scale or security needs:
- A legacy on-premise domainIdentity and access ran on an old local domain — harder to manage and secure than a modern cloud directory.
- An archaic file serverThe firm’s files lived on aging on-premise server hardware, with the collaboration and security limits that come with it.
- Email on hosted ExchangeEmail was still on a hosted Exchange platform rather than a modern, integrated cloud suite.
- Unmanaged YardiThe Yardi property management platform — central to the business — had no dedicated IT owner keeping it healthy.
- No modern endpoint securityThere was no EDR/MDR protecting the firm’s endpoints against modern threats.
The solution
Advanced Networks moved Younan Properties entirely to the cloud and wrapped the whole environment in managed security and full-service IT.
Azure cloud identity
We migrated the legacy on-premise domain to Microsoft Azure / Entra cloud identity, securing access with multi-factor authentication across the firm.
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint
We moved hosted Exchange email to Microsoft 365 and migrated the aging file server to SharePoint — modern, secure, anywhere-access email and files. See our Microsoft 365 for real estate work.
Managed EDR/MDR security
We rolled out managed endpoint detection and response (EDR/MDR) across every device, the backbone of our real estate cybersecurity.
Yardi platform support
We took ownership of the firm’s Yardi environment, keeping the property management platform reliable and supported.
Full managed IT services
Beyond the migrations, we run the firm’s IT end to end — 24/7 monitoring, helpdesk, and infrastructure management as their complete outsourced IT department.
Cloud-first foundation
The result is a fully cloud-based environment with no aging on-premise servers to fail — modern, scalable, and secure for a growing real estate firm.
The major projects
On-premise domain to Azure
Migrated the legacy local domain to Microsoft Azure / Entra cloud identity.
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint
Moved hosted Exchange email to Microsoft 365 and the aging file server to SharePoint.
EDR/MDR rollout
Deployed managed endpoint detection and response across every device.
The results
- 100% migrated to the cloud — no aging on-premise servers left to fail
- Faster staff onboarding on a modern, cloud-based environment
- Fewer security incidents with managed EDR/MDR and cloud identity
- Improved uptime across the firm’s systems
- Faster helpdesk response from a full managed IT team
For a 120-user commercial real estate firm, this rebuild replaced aging on-premise infrastructure with a secure, fully cloud-based operation. This story is part of our real estate IT services in Los Angeles.
About Advanced Networks: Advanced Networks is a managed IT and cybersecurity provider headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Orange County and San Francisco, supporting commercial real estate firms and other organizations across Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.