Pete Morgan Technology

22/05/2026

⚙ Club Crocodile Airlie Beach — $6M hotel refurbishment

160 rooms stripped to shell. Full ICT scope across the rebuild — CCTV, access control, FTA/satellite distribution with full recable and backbone equipment, headend systems, IP telephony replacing legacy analogue, and CAT6 structured cabling.

The building was decades old — no modern cable pathways, no provisions for the technology going in. The ancient cabling topography in the roof space had to be read and worked with. There was no rebuilding it.

Three days on hands and knees in the roof space, heat and humidity, linking new infrastructure into the existing building fabric without breaking what was already there.

Stuart Reardon from Matchmaster — 30 years in the industry — called it "some of the best work I have seen… it was almost miraculous that you have been able to link into the ancient cabling topography and get the perfect results that you have."

One of those projects where the bones of the old building decide what you can do, and you find a way through anyway.



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06/05/2026

⚙ From the inside — Microsoft Intune migrations

Getting out of that loop requires someone to stop the BAU cycle, map what is actually in place, and build the cloud environment properly before cutting over.

It is not glamorous work. But it is the work that releases the value that was promised when the licences were bought.

If that sounds familiar, I am happy to talk.



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29/04/2026

⚙ Bringing high-speed fibre optic network infrastructure to Dent Island

As part of building the championship golf course on Dent Island, a services pipeline had to span Dent Passage. The pipeline was engineered, bundled on concrete cradles, and staged along the active Hamilton Island airstrip.

Initially, a microwave link from Qualia to the Dent Island landfall was planned to carry the technology needs of the island. Three months before deployment, the decision was taken to include fibre with the other services in the pipeline and the project landed on my desk.

I designed two 24-core submarine fibre cables into the bundle — submarine-rated cable, pressure ratings at depth, duct protection. With lots of collaboration and teamwork across the Services dept, the Powerhouse dept and others, retrofitting and integration of the fibre ducting into a pipeline was achieved.

You can see the fibre optic pipe running down the centre of the bundle, in blue.

Sunset staging the evening before. First light next morning, the pipeline was hooked up — tugboat at one end, excavator at the other to stop it from running away as it entered the passage off the runway.

All of us were manning the dollies, one at every concrete weight, carefully keeping the pipe straight as it was inched into the water.

The tide had to be still, the weather had to hold, all the engineering had to work. Only one chance at the pull.

The bundle crossed Dent Passage. The pipeline was kept afloat by the air in the pipes. When it reached the planned position spanning the passage, the seals were blown. The pipes filled with water and the pipeline sank to the bottom.

Once all was stabilised, my team continued the fibre from landfall on Dent Island to the W5-rated disaster recovery and backup bunker I had included in the build design. The bunker housed the microwave backup equipment and dish, and the Citrix server replication farm establishing the much-needed Hamilton Island offsite high-speed backup path.

This is one of the many projects I am so grateful to have been part of. The skills I gained, the wonderful teamwork, the common goals — a truly amazing experience and project.

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25/04/2026

Suspended Cable Design & Region's First Foxtel TDT Headend — Hidden Cove Precinct

Designed, installed, and certified the FTA and Foxtel head-end and distribution systems across Hidden Cove Precinct — 22 luxury properties. A beautiful new luxury residential estate on Hamilton Island. As the estate was not permitted to use TV antennas & satellite dishes, a fully distributed solution from a single headend was required.

The site is designed around fully elevated roads with no easements, ruling out traditional underground services distribution. There were no cable pathways installed and we were 4 months out from PC.

With assistance from Xane Matsen of HiTechnologies, a Hamilton Island based technical contractor, and drawing on a partnership with Matchmaster, I designed a fully distributed TERRA S2C16P TDT system. Distribution ran over RG11 and RG6 Matchmaster quadshield coaxial cable, carried through 100mm and 50mm suspended conduit pathways I designed across the site, with markup handed to the builder for installation.

At the head of it, I installed the Whitsunday region's first Foxtel TDT headend system — combining FTA & Foxtel distribution across all 22 properties. Certified the installation to Foxtel approval. Delivered within a 4-month deadline.

24/04/2026

⚙ From the inside — Microsoft Intune migrations

On-premises Group Policy is still running. Intune is partially configured. Nobody is sure which one is actually managing the fleet.

When something breaks, the root cause investigation touches both environments. Every fix creates a new dependency. The migration that was supposed to simplify things has added a layer of complexity that nobody owns.

They cannot go back to on-premises only — too much has changed. They cannot move forward to cloud only — the foundation was never properly built. So, they stay in the middle, paying for both, getting the full benefit of neither.

Deployment guide to set up, onboard, or move to Intune. These steps include moving from partner MDM providers, using co-management, moving from on-premises group policy, and moving from Office 365 device management.

22/04/2026

Rolling out Windows 11 to a 300-endpoint fleet via Microsoft Configuration Manager.

Windows 10 was going end of life. I designed a three-phase rollout in MCM — roughly 65 users per phase — scheduled over 11 months, with a clean-up period at the tail.

Phase 1 triggered. Over in 2 weeks, no issues. Figures to the C-Suite, approval for phase 2. Same through phase 3.

100% of the fleet on Windows 11 in 3 months. Zero user issues.

Not every migration needs 11 months. Sometimes it's three gated phases, clean numbers at each, and the fleet lands ahead of plan.

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19/04/2026

⚙ From the inside — Microsoft Intune migrations

Moving endpoint management to Microsoft Intune makes sense. It genuinely does. One platform. Cloud-managed. No more Group Policy sprawl across domain controllers. Security baselines, compliance policies, and device configuration all in one place. Visibility across the entire fleet from a browser. No VPN required to push a policy. It is the direction Microsoft has been pushing for years and the business case is solid.

So organisations made the call. Licenses were bought. Co-management was enabled. A few policies were stood up and everything was tracking well — but then the budget tightened, the person who owned it moved on, priorities shifted, or the project simply ran out of steam. Everyone went back to BAU.

The danger when this happens is having one foot in Intune, one foot still in on-premises Group Policy, and not sure which one is actually managing the fleet.

Deployment guide to set up, onboard, or move to Intune. These steps include moving from partner MDM providers, using co-management, moving from on-premises group policy, and moving from Office 365 device management.

19/04/2026

Current engagement on track for successful completion — mid-2026 | Planning for what comes next | Call me to discuss

Best Practice Software engaged me to modernise their endpoint management environment. Legacy SCCM and on-premises Group Policy replaced with a fully cloud-managed Microsoft Intune estate — 337 devices, transformed policy architecture, security baselines, SCCM decommissioned.

If your organisation is struggling to get a critical IT project off the ground or across the line — and you prefer to get someone on the phone — I am happy to take that call.

Based in Bundaberg. Available across regional and south-east Queensland.

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15/04/2026

Collinsville and Hayman Solar Farms, North Queensland.

Replacing MW-class SMA inverters across Collinsville and Hayman Solar Farms — working daily with electrical crews, performing shutdown and safety in 40-degree heat, and the flies, well you have to learn to live with them.

DMK Industries.



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08/04/2026

Daydream Island resort. 240 rooms stripped back to bare walls after Cyclone Debbie.

Mission was to fit off and commission the ICT and guest services package across every room — in-room entertainment, telecommunications, satellite and TV distribution, Wi-Fi. Test and Sign-Off.

Not every project starts with a clean room and a plan. Sometimes it starts with exposed cables and a deadline.

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