Running the MSP security practice: GDAP, Lighthouse, NCE and licensing strategy, PowerShell automation, migrations, QBR reporting, and vCISO services.
Partner Center's Security Center now reports on every DAP relationship, including sign-in activity and stale connections. Here is where to find it and what to cut, as of January 2022.
December 2021 for MSPs: DAP monitoring and self-service removal go live, GDAP hits technical preview for January 2022, SMTP DANE comes to Exchange Online, and Teams quiets its activity feed.
November 2021 for MSPs: Defender for Business lands in Business Premium at no extra cost, NCE promos slip to January 2022, GDAP is announced, and CSP partners get Azure AD P2 free.
GDAP replaces permanent Global Admin access to every customer tenant with granular, time-bound roles. Here is what changes for MSPs, announced November 2021.
Microsoft starts permanently disabling basic auth on October 1, 2022, with surprise 12-to-48-hour shutoffs in early 2022. Three multi-tenant PowerShell scripts show you what will break.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A PowerShell script that documents Microsoft 365 license usage per tenant in Syncro: every licensed and unlicensed user, plus available versus consumed seats, across all your customers.
