Services / Microsoft & BI
Microsoft 365 Deployment
Most Microsoft 365 tenants are switched on, not deployed. We treat it as infrastructure: identity and conditional access first, then a file architecture and a Teams model that stops SharePoint becoming the new shared drive.
- Practice
- Microsoft & BI
- Best fit
- Best fit for organisations migrating from on-premise Exchange or Google Workspace, and for tenants that were set up quickly and now need governance.
- Industries
- Professional Services · Education · Healthcare · Manufacturing · Construction · Retail
What’s included
Scope, stated before we start
Six work-streams that make up a standard engagement. Anything outside them is priced separately and named in the proposal — never absorbed quietly.
Entra ID & conditional access
Identity design, groups, licensing model, MFA enforcement and conditional-access policies written against real risk rather than a default template.
Exchange Online migration
Mailbox and archive migration with a tested cutover, DNS and mail-flow plan, SPF/DKIM/DMARC configured, and no mail lost in the window.
SharePoint & OneDrive architecture
A site and permission architecture with a retention model — hub sites, sensible sharing defaults, and an end to nested-folder archaeology.
Teams governance
Naming standards, provisioning policy, guest-access rules, expiry and lifecycle so the channel list stays legible after year one.
Security baseline & DLP
Defender policies, sensitivity labels, data-loss-prevention rules and a monitored secure-score baseline you can report to the board.
Power Platform enablement
Power Automate and Power Apps opened up with environments, connectors and an approval path — citizen development with guard-rails, not shadow IT.
Outcomes
What changes when this is done properly
These are the three differences clients describe six months after go-live — not feature claims.
- MFA and conditional access on every account
- Files findable by structure, not by search luck
- A secure-score baseline that keeps improving
Not sure this is the right service? Discover is a fixed-price, two-to-three week assessment that answers the question with evidence — and it is usable whether or not you appoint us. Start there instead →
Who it’s for
Industries where this comes up most
Each links to how the service is shaped for that sector — the requirements differ more than vendors admit.
Our approach
The same four phases, applied to this scope
Reused deliberately. A consistent method is what makes a fixed price honest and a date holdable.
01
Discover
Process mapping before software selection.
We walk the floor and the ledger. Two to three weeks of structured interviews and document tracing produce a current-state process map, a data-quality baseline, and a written list of the decisions your systems cannot currently answer.
02
Design
One target architecture, agreed on paper.
Chart of accounts, item and customer master rules, approval hierarchies, integration contracts and reporting model are designed together — not discovered during build. You sign off a blueprint, not a demo.
03
Deliver
Configure, migrate, test, train — in that order.
Iterative configuration with fortnightly conference-room pilots. Data migration runs three times before go-live: trial, dry run, and cutover, each reconciled to the closing trial balance. Users train on their own data.
04
Sustain
Hypercare, then measurable adoption.
Four to eight weeks of hypercare with named owners and a burn-down of issues. Then a governance rhythm: master-data stewardship, monthly close review, and a Power BI adoption dashboard that shows whether the system is actually being used.
Yes — mail, calendar, contacts and Drive content, with a co-existence period so nothing has to move on one weekend. We map Google Groups and sharing to Entra groups and SharePoint permissions rather than replicating chaos.
It depends on how much of the security stack you want native. Business Premium covers most mid-market needs including Intune and Defender; E3/E5 makes sense where compliance, eDiscovery or advanced threat protection is required. We model both against your headcount split.
Intune enrolment, compliance policies, app protection and Autopilot provisioning can be included, and device supply can come through the same engagement.
An information architecture agreed with the business, provisioning through a request flow instead of self-serve site creation, retention labels on the sites that need them, and a quarterly review. Governance is a habit, so we hand over the habit.
Next step
Talk to someone who has implemented Microsoft 365 before
Not a sales call. A working conversation with the person who would run the engagement, and a straight answer on scope, sequence and cost.