About Cloud Elite Consulting
Cloud Elite Consulting is a Canberra-based Microsoft 365 consultancy led by Aref Khandker. Aref brings more than 20 years in IT, including enterprise architecture and hands-on Microsoft 365 delivery for Australian government departments and private organisations.
His work brings together technical design, configuration, and change management. Clients can get help deciding what controls they need, putting them in place, and preparing their people to work with them.
Selected work from prior roles
Government information protection and Copilot governance
Designed and implemented Microsoft Purview data loss prevention, sensitivity labelling, and Copilot governance for government Microsoft 365 environments. In a separate government role, designed records and retention policies and tightened external sharing.
Microsoft 365 migration at scale
Led and coordinated Microsoft 365 migrations involving thousands of users over several years. His work has included tenant separation, live migration planning, and coordinating moves across Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Intune-managed devices.
Governance and adoption for an energy utility
Applied Modern Collaboration Architecture to Microsoft 365 governance and SharePoint intranet delivery. The work covered retention policies, external collaboration controls, and staff training on Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and safe sharing.
Aref earned his degree in software engineering at the Australian National University, holds a change management certification from Prosci, and received a Microsoft Certificate of Achievement in Microsoft 365 Security and Purview.
Discuss your project
Email hello@cloudelite.com.au to discuss your Microsoft 365 environment and what you want to achieve.