Microsoft 365 risk, cost and ownership review
Know what you own, what it costs, and what to fix first.
You get a verified map of the systems, a named owner against each, the decisions in priority order, and next actions with prices on them. Leadership or another provider can act on it directly.
- What you get
- A verified estate and ownership map, prioritized risk and cost decisions, and scoped options for follow-on work.
- How it starts
- A free scope call. The price is fixed in writing before anyone is given access.
- When it is done
- Findings are tied to evidence, unknowns are explicit and the decision readout is delivered. Production changes are outside this review.
Illustrative sample · constructed example
A useful finding has evidence and a next action.
Review excerpt · privileged access ownership
Selected check
Has the client confirmed who owns this access?
| Record | Evidence or responsibility | Sample review |
|---|---|---|
| Privileged assignment | Keep the assignment reference and evidence date. | Assignment observed |
| Purpose and owner | Verify why the access exists and who owns it. | Owner unknown |
| Next decision | Agree whether a separately scoped change is needed. | Evidence gap |
| Production | Record the review without changing access. | No settings changed |
The review produces a decision and record. Any implementation needs its own agreed scope.
- Evidence
- Role assignment is present; purpose and accountable owner are unresolved.
- Decision
- Record an evidence gap
- Next action
- Ask the client to confirm purpose, ownership and the appropriate next review.
Illustrative sample. This review produces decisions and a record; it does not change production settings.
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The work starts here.
You inherited a Microsoft setup nobody can explain. That makes it hard to approve a budget, change provider, plan a move, or sign off a security plan.
Scope at a glance
- Read-only review
- Named decision owner
- Microsoft 365 and Azure scope agreed before access is granted
If nobody acts
What waiting costs
Applications that sign in through Microsoft 365 hold permissions that outlast whoever approved them. An application nobody has listed cannot be reviewed, renewed, or switched off on purpose.
Scoping a migration, a security project or a vendor change starts from the same counts this record holds. Without it, those counts get produced inside the project that needed them, on that project’s schedule.
Azure resources bill for as long as they exist. A subscription running something nobody has claimed costs money on the same schedule as the ones earning it.
A list of findings with no owner and no severity leaves the order of work to whoever happens to read it. It circulates as something everyone has seen and nobody has accepted.
Leadership is asked to approve fixes in an order nobody can justify. The budget conversation stalls, and the thing that should have been done first goes nowhere.
Check your own environment
Sounds like you?
- You inherited the Microsoft setup and no one has explained it to you
- You cannot approve a budget because nobody can say what is actually there
- There is no diagram, no list of systems, and no record of who owns what
- Two people give you different answers about the same system
Save yourself the call
Not for you if
- A current written review already exists and you trust it
- You already know the one thing that is wrong, in which case buy the fix rather than the review
- A decision has been made and what you need is someone to carry it out
The work
What is different when we hand over
Tenants, subscriptions, administrators, connected applications and licensing are verified against the live environment.
Ownership gaps, unnecessary access and recurring cost without a clear owner are recorded.
Findings are ranked by operational risk, cost and decision urgency.
The next work is sequenced and priced so leadership or another provider can act on it.
Acceptance
Checks before handover
Done when every critical in-scope system has a verified owner or an explicit ownership gap, and the agreed decisions can be made from the record.
The environment record is verified against the live tenant
Every finding has an owner and a severity
Findings are prioritized. Defined follow-on fixes can be quoted at a fixed fee; unresolved dependencies carry explicit assumptions and estimates
A fair question
Is this a report we will read once and file?
That is the honest risk with any review, so this one is built to be acted on: every finding carries a severity and a named next action, and it ends with the one change you could approve immediately. It is also deliberately the only engagement here that changes nothing. If you already know what is wrong, buy the fix instead, and that advice is free.
Price and calendar
Scope, price and project calendar
Engagement price
Price fixed after a short scope call.
The price is agreed in writing before any work starts and before anyone is given access. The call itself costs nothing. What moves the number:
What determines the scope
- Number of tenants
- Applications authenticating through Microsoft 365
- Azure footprint and whether infrastructure is in scope
- Whether endpoints are included
Scope & responsibilities
What is and is not included
The exclusions, what we need from you, how change is staged and reversed, and what is handed over at the end.
Exclusions
- This engagement does not change production settings
- No fixes, penetration testing, or restore testing
- Implementation is quoted separately from the findings
What we need from you
- Provide read-only access to the systems in scope
- Nominate someone to answer ownership questions
Change and rollback method
- No production settings are changed during the review.
- Findings are supported by read-only evidence from the systems in scope.
- Any implementation requires a separately approved scope and change plan.
What you keep at handover
- A System guide: the configuration as delivered, the checks that were run and the unresolved list
- Verified estate, administrator and application inventory
- Ownership and recurring-cost register
- Prioritized findings with named next actions
- Implementation options and fixed proposals where the work is defined
Access, acceptance and support arrangements
How you know the work is good
Judge it by what you can inspect.
The method is written down, the sample records open and the demo can be broken on purpose. Read it the way your technical owner would.
- 01How a project runs
A first conversation, free. An agreed scope with a named technical lead in the proposal. The price fixed in writing before we are given access. Checks before handover.
How we work- 02What is checked
Release checks, access test matrices and ownership maps. Constructed inspection records on the service pages show the standard before you buy.
See sample deliverables- 03What you keep
A System guide: what was agreed, what changed, what was tested and what remains open. With it, the scripts and check results behind the work.
Next step
Start with a free scope call.
Tell us what needs to change, what must keep working and the deadline. The call is free, and the price is fixed in writing before anyone is given access.
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