Nick is not just a CEO, he's a respected thought leader and influencer in the MSP space. Tens of thousands of MSPs learn through his YouTube channel, T-Minus365. Nick has been honored as a three-time Microsoft MVP for his educational content; his expertise and influence are the backbone of our mission, ensuring that you are in the best hands when it comes to security.
Nick joined Pax8 in 2017, where he would ultimately oversee product management for PSA and Microsoft integrations. Following his tenure at Pax8, Nick has continued to demonstrate his leadership prowess as an executive at various MSPs, culminating in his most recent role at Sourcepass.
Nick holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Florida State University, as well as a Minor Degree in Entrepreneurship. In his free time, Nick is an avid hiker, reader, and fitness-junkie.
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Exchange Online enforces tenant-wide outbound email limits, E5 Security arrives as a Business Premium add-on, and the Report Message add-in enters maintenance mode.
A Power Automate flow that takes vendor requests from a Microsoft Form, routes approvals through Teams, logs the software inventory, and opens the IT ticket.
Shadow SaaS thrives where no approved software list exists. Build a vendor management policy, an inventory template, and use the three app inventories M365 already keeps.
Most businesses cannot produce an accurate application inventory, and the Microsoft 365 defaults make it worse. Here is the layered plan for CIS Control 2, from OAuth consent to ASR rules.
Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies start auto-enforcing after 45 days, Skype interop in Teams dies May 1, and Hotpatch hits preview. The February 2025 changes, sorted by deadline.
A hands-on video walkthrough of building two working AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio: a loan analyzer that decides and emails applicants, and a Teams-based app access evaluator for IT.
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