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September 2021 for MSPs: NCE brings a 20% monthly premium to seat-based CSP, basic auth gets an October 2022 kill date with surprise shutoffs sooner, and the classic EAC starts winding down.
Intune app protection policies containerize Microsoft 365 data on personal iOS and Android phones with no device enrollment. A full walkthrough of the policy build and what users actually see.
Microsoft's New Commerce Experience brings annual lock-ins, a 20% premium on monthly terms, and March 2022 price increases to seat-based CSP. The full breakdown plus an MSP action plan.
August 2021 for MSPs: Azure AD Graph and MSOnline license cmdlets retire June 30, 2022, Teams recordings start auto-expiring at 60 days, and channel renames finally sync to SharePoint.
Windows 365 pricing went public on August 2, 2021. Where Business beats Enterprise, when AVD saves up to 58%, and the three customer scenarios where Cloud PC earns its roughly $30 per user.
Azure Cost Management gives MSPs spend visibility, budgets, and alert-driven automation under Azure Plan. Here is how to set it up per customer and avoid the month-end invoice surprise.
Hands-on findings from Windows 365's August 2021 launch window: Business vs Enterprise tradeoffs, real provisioning times, Intune and OneDrive guardrails, and the errors you will hit first.
Azure Plan replaces the traditional CSP Azure offer with pay-as-you-go rates, Partner Earned Credits instead of margin, and Azure Cost Management. The answers indirect resellers need, as of 2021.
July 2021 for MSPs: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse enters free public preview, Outlook meetings go online by default, Teams adds Fluid components, and Secure Score gets five Teams checks.
Per-user MFA, Conditional Access, and Security Defaults each report enrollment differently. Here is how they interact, plus a PowerShell script that documents MFA across every customer tenant.
Step-by-step build of a Syncro custom connector in Power Automate: API key auth, a create-ticket action imported from Syncro's REST API, locked-down static fields, and a live test.
June 2021 for MSPs: E2EE arrives for 1:1 Teams calls, meetings can auto-record, recordings become searchable by transcript, and the first contact safety tip moves into anti-phishing policy.
May 2021 for MSPs: the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse service plan lands in Business Premium, external group chat hits GA with 250 participants, and reply-all storm protection becomes tunable.
Group Policy can bulk-enroll devices that are already joined to on-premises Active Directory into Intune, with no local admin rights and no end-user interaction required.
Intune tags every enrolled device corporate or personal automatically, and that tag decides whether it lands under MDM or MAM. Here is exactly how the classification is made.
Intune's default auto-enrollment puts every device under full MDM, including the cell phones your users never wanted managed. Here is how to scope MDM and MAM the right way.
Federating an Azure AD domain to Apple Business Manager lets users sign in with their existing Azure AD credentials and creates Managed Apple IDs automatically. Here is what it unlocks.
A PowerShell script that builds an IT Glue flexible asset and fills it with every Intune-enrolled device across all your customers, including compliance state, encryption, and Autopilot status.
