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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.
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.
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.
Microsoft lets end users buy subscriptions on their own credit card, outside your CSP margin. Here is a one-script way to disable self-service purchasing across all the tenants you manage.
March 2021's Microsoft 365 changes that matter to MSPs: attendee camera controls in Teams, granular EOP quarantine release, new least-privilege admin roles, and self-service purchase expansion.
A GoDaddy-federated Microsoft 365 tenant can't move to CSP or Direct. Here is how to defederate it in place, keep every user account, and bring it under your management with no downtime.
As of April 2019, Shift, Silver Competency, and Sky's the Limit stack on the same net-new 365 customers. Here is the math that pushes margin to 47%.
Microsoft competencies are a kickback program in disguise. As of April 2019, four net-new customers and a $1,670 fee can net an MSP $1,030 a year on the 6% rebate alone.
M365 Business gained features that close the security gap with E3. As of April 2019, the deciding factors are user count, Intune adoption, Windows 10 upgrades, and RDS.
