A hybrid cloud environment designed for 150 Australis Facade users working from the office, remotely and across construction sites.

Australis Facade is a commercial construction and engineering subcontractor in Sydney that designs, supplies and installs external building envelopes, curtain walls and glass-and-aluminium window systems for high-rise residential and commercial developments. Its approximately 150 users work from the Sydney office, remotely and across active construction sites, and depend on Microsoft 365, project documentation, finance systems, consultant collaboration and access to large design and BIM files every day. The objective was not to “move everything to cloud” — that would have created performance, access and support risk. Australis Facade needed a hybrid Azure architecture that modernised identity, collaboration, security, backup and remote access while keeping selected workloads local where performance still mattered.

Inlight IT designed and delivered the hybrid platform across Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive, Azure Virtual Desktop, Intune, Azure Backup, Microsoft Defender and refreshed on-premises infrastructure for retained BIM and financial-system workloads. The result was a 150-user hybrid environment with cloud where it improved the operating model, local infrastructure where it protected performance, and one managed identity, security and backup model across both.