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pH7x Systems® is an independent software vendor (ISV) brand from Portugal, operated by João Lívio: software engineering, Microsoft cloud architecture and enterprise modernisation, with the work published as verified answers, a migration field guide, analysis and free tools.
What this site lets you learn, assess, decide and produce. Each says the problem it is for, what you leave with and its state today.
Field GuideVersion 1.0.1 · 42 chapters, each also a PDF · free, no sign-in
The bookVersion 1.0.1 · PDF, 220 pages · free with a pH7x account
Migration packFree · no sign-in · generated in your browser
Engineering journey5 steps · 20 pages linked · free, no sign-in
Or start from the problem in front of you: what the published work gives you, the limit it states about itself and where to begin.
The path from the decision to a validated farm. Each step names the question it settles and the Field Guide chapter, analysis or tool that settles it, the database-attach procedure included.
Microsoft supports one way across, a database attach to a new farm. The path links procedures; it runs nothing against a farm.
What Microsoft supports today, five options side by side, and three questions that place each option with its reason, with a record you can take to your team.
It reads your answers, not your farm; the planners' inventory scripts it points to are checked for syntax and not yet run against a farm.
Read what the farm has installed against what its sites use, and decide to keep, adapt, replace or eliminate each customisation. Then audit every operation that runs with elevated privileges: who invokes it, which permission it borrows, which account acts, how the caller is authorised and what is recorded.
The scripts in both chapters read and change nothing, and a service account is never offered as the fix for elevated code.
Verified answers, each with the command, an example output, what it proves, what it does not prove, and the date it was last checked.
Measured against SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365. None of them is a claim about SharePoint Server.
Analysis that separates what the evidence establishes from what it does not, with every source dated and the limits stated.
Analysis informs a decision about your system; it does not make one.
Built for the questions I am asked on real migrations. No sign-up, nothing sent anywhere: they run in your browser or they are plain pages.
Every toolFree · no sign-in · in your browser · writes DOCX · XLSX
InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows, decided option by option: preserve the 2013 workflows on Subscription Edition, modernise the forms, rebuild on SharePoint, engineer in .NET or move to Microsoft 365, each with what it needs, what it costs to keep and the evidence to get first.
Runs in your browser
Answer a short questionnaire and get a rules-based read on your SharePoint environment: what is retired, the risks, the recommended destination and the next steps. Free, private, runs in your browser.
18 questions3 outcomes
Checked 2026-11-11
What is already out of support and what runs out next, with the date for each version and the step that follows.
14 product families265 releases
Checked 10 November 2026
The URLs, IP address ranges and ports Microsoft 365 needs, as Microsoft's IP address and URL web service publishes them, and every change it has published since July 2018, version by version.
62 endpoint sets483 change records
Checked 11 November 2026
What Microsoft fixed in SharePoint Server each month, as its Security Response Center publishes it: each vulnerability, the versions it affects, whether Microsoft marks it exploited, and the update that fixes it.
35 monthly documents270 updates listed
$ m365-governance evaluate --evidence list-over-limit.json --format json
"resource": { "type": "list", "display_name": "Archive" }
"counts": { "pass": 0, "fail": 1, "unknown": 2 }
{ "rule_id": "SPO-LIST-001", "outcome": "fail" }
{ "rule_id": "SPO-LIST-002", "outcome": "unknown" }
{ "rule_id": "SPO-LIST-003", "outcome": "unknown" }
Software for evidence-based technical governance across supported Microsoft 365 environments. Collection, evidence, assessment and interpretation are kept separate, and what could not be established is said in those words.
Each answer and each analysis says what was tested, what remains uncertain and what comes next. Every one takes comments: agree, ask for a review, or ask a question.
All 34 verified answers All 39 analyses
pH7x Systems® is an ISV brand operated by João Lívio, focused on software engineering, enterprise platforms, cloud architecture and modernisation. We approach technology through architecture, implementation, testing and outcomes that can be verified.
Enterprise applications, APIs, backend services and integrated platforms. Architecture, maintainability, automated testing, security and operational reliability are treated as core engineering concerns, not as a phase at the end.
Founder & Software Engineer · pH7x Systems®
I started in 1993 writing Pascal and Clipper, then spent years running systems, networks and databases before SharePoint became most of my work: farms, intranets, hybrid architectures and migrations.
pH7x Systems® is where I publish what I had to work out on real projects, in a form someone else can check.
Verified credentials Each is published as the badge or certificate reads, with its qualifier and period. A founder's certification is not a certification of pH7x Systems®.
Most Valuable ProfessionalMicrosoft · Alumni · 2002–2013
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Technical ChampionMicrosoft · 2024
Microsoft Certified Technology SpecialistMicrosoft · SharePoint Development · 2011
Microsoft Certified ProfessionalMicrosoft · 2014
AIGPE Certified Lean SpecialistAIGPE · 2023
Nintex Process Automation ExpertNintex · Office 365 · 2021Nintex Certified Solutions ProfessionalNintex · SharePoint and Office 365 · 2019
Certified Trainer (CAP)IEFP, Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional · 2003
Company status: Microsoft Partner. Microsoft · ISV · independent software vendor. pH7x Systems® is a Microsoft Partner in the ISV programme, kept apart from the founder's personal credentials.
A working practice, not a certified or audited methodology.
Whether you are modernising a legacy platform, evaluating a SharePoint migration, developing enterprise software or exploring a new integration, I start with the technical problem and the constraints that matter.