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April 2022 for MSPs: Defender for Business standalone arrives at $3 per user, legacy CSP renewals get until July 11, Azure subscriptions transfer between partners, and Windows 365 goes annual.
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.
Forgotten licenses on converted shared mailboxes quietly drain margin. Here is a scheduled Azure Function, plus a local script, that finds and strips them across all your customers.
Move recurring PowerShell jobs off an on-prem server and into serverless Azure Functions, authenticating to every customer tenant with the secure application model.
Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync is a lightweight agent that finally syncs multiple disconnected forests into one tenant. Here is where it wins for MSPs and where it still falls short.
An Azure Logic App can pull Microsoft Graph security alerts on a timer and post them to a Teams channel with no scripting. Here is the build, the cost, and where it falls short.
AD Connect dirsync errors and duplicate users almost always trace back to attribute and prep mistakes made before the first sync. Here is the pre-sync checklist that prevents them.
