M365 Tenant Readiness
A clean, license-compliant baseline for your M365 and Entra environment. Read first, then hardened. The foundation every subsequent Microsoft project builds on.
Without a Clean Foundation, Every Project Fails
Most Microsoft 365 tenants in mid-market companies have grown organically — not set up systematically. Misconfigurations in the Admin Center and Entra ID lead to security gaps, licensing issues, and compliance risks. Without a clean foundation, subsequent projects like Copilot rollouts or security hardening fail on basic prerequisites.
This is not a failure of your IT team. Tenant hardening touches Entra Connect, UPN design, admin-account separation, domain verification, network paths, and a security baseline that depends on the M365 license you actually hold. Each topic has its own Microsoft documentation tree — the sequence and the trade-offs are not in it.
Traditional consulting for a tenant assessment? Two months, five figures. The knowledge leaves with the consultant. Next year, when you add a new service, you are back on your own.
ACTIVITIES IN DETAIL
DELIVERABLES
Tenant Inventory: Read through the tenant integration, compared against the DAMALO baseline
Licensing: Group-based assignment per licence type for real users, plus feature governance
Commercial Governance: Subscription health, billing, and self-service purchase closed per product
Global Settings: Org settings, group lifecycle, app consent, plus the SharePoint and Teams baseline
Authentication Methods: Policy assessed off the retired surfaces, FIDO2 and Authenticator ready
Domains and Service Health: Domains verified, DNS and client access checked, Message Center routed
Identity Synchronization: Entra Connect against the 30 September 2026 deadline, UPN and IDFix clean-up
Security Readout: MFA coverage, break-glass accounts, CA inventory, and data-residency posture
Next steps after M365 Tenant Readiness
A cleanly configured tenant is the foundation. These blueprints build directly on it
