MICROSOFT 365

Microsoft 365 administration and tenant management.

NexDesk administers Microsoft 365 tenants for small and mid-sized businesses: licensing, Exchange and mailflow, SharePoint and Teams governance, Intune device policy, and Entra ID configuration. Most tenants are configured during a migration and never revisited, which is where fragile mailflow, inconsistent SharePoint permissions and unexplained Intune prompts originate. The work is to bring the tenant to a documented state and hold it there.

WHO THIS IS FOR
  • →Companies whose M365 tenant was set up by whoever was around in year one and hasn't been touched since.
  • →Teams migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft (or the reverse).
  • →Growing orgs ready to move off Business Basic / Standard onto Business Premium and take advantage of what's included.
  • →Anyone frustrated with SharePoint permissions, Teams channel sprawl, or Exchange mailflow they don't understand.
WHAT WE MANAGE
Core productivity
  • · Exchange Online + mailflow
  • · Teams (calling, meetings, chat)
  • · SharePoint / OneDrive
  • · Outlook + Office apps
  • · Distribution + shared mailboxes
  • · Retention + eDiscovery
Endpoint & identity
  • · Microsoft Intune
  • · Windows Autopilot
  • · Entra ID (Azure AD)
  • · Conditional access
  • · MFA + passwordless
  • · Compliance policies
Licensing & governance
  • · License audit + right-sizing
  • · Business Premium / E3 / E5 comparison
  • · Group + team lifecycle
  • · Sensitivity labels
  • · M365 backup (Datto, Barracuda)
  • · Secure Score improvement
HOW WE WORK
Tenant health assessment

Every engagement opens with a written health check covering Secure Score, licence utilisation, administrative roles, external sharing, mailflow rules and orphaned groups. The document establishes a baseline that later changes can be measured against.

License right-sizing pays for itself

Tenants of this size routinely overspend by twenty to thirty per cent, usually because E3 licences were purchased where Business Premium would serve, or because departed staff retain paid seats. NexDesk reconciles licensing against actual use and reports the difference before recommending any change.

Business Premium unlocks a lot

Business Basic and Business Standard exclude Intune, Entra ID Premium and a substantial part of the security feature set. NexDesk evaluates whether the upgrade is justified by what your company would actually deploy, rather than recommending it by default.

Autopilot for hardware

A new laptop is shipped from the vendor, the employee signs in with their Microsoft 365 credentials, and applications, policies, VPN configuration and printer drivers provision automatically. NexDesk configures and maintains the Autopilot profiles and the Intune policy set behind that process.

FREQUENTLY ASKED
Do we need Business Premium or is Business Standard fine?
Standard covers the productivity apps. Business Premium adds Intune (device management), Entra ID Premium (SSO, conditional access), and a stack of security features you probably want at 25+ employees. Usually a $10/user/month upgrade that avoids $50/user/month in equivalent third-party tools.
Can you handle a Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migration?
Yes, NexDesk runs these migrations end to end. Mail, calendar, drive contents, groups, aliases. Usually a 2-4 week project with parallel-running mail during cutover. Users see minimal disruption.
Our Teams meetings drop constantly. Is that us or Microsoft?
The cause is almost always the network rather than Microsoft. Teams is unforgiving about jitter and packet loss even on good bandwidth. We audit your ISP + firewall + Wi-Fi and fix what's actually broken — usually a QoS policy or a saturated uplink, not a Microsoft problem.
What about Copilot?
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is a $30/user/month add-on with real utility for some roles (execs, sales, marketing) and marginal utility for others (engineering, ops). We help pilot it with 5-10 people before rolling it broadly.

Ready to talk?

One conversation to scope what you have, what you're missing, and whether we're a fit. Managed plans start at $2,500/month.