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Licensing, usage alignment, reclaim opportunities, and operational clarity.

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Licensing, usage alignment, reclaim opportunities, and operational clarity.

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What MSPs Should Report Every Month to Prove Microsoft 365 Value

A monthly Microsoft 365 report pack MSPs can send every customer: licence reclaim, security posture, device health, ticket trends, spend, and next actions.

16 Aug 2026Ryan Mangan

Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness for MSPs: A White-Label Assessment and Remediation Playbook

A Copilot readiness playbook for MSPs: assess licensing and data access across customer tenants and scope billable remediation work.

13 Aug 2026Ryan Mangan

How to Find and Fix Oversharing Before Enabling Copilot: SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams

Find and fix oversharing across SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams before enabling Copilot, using the reports and controls that make cleanup stick.

10 Aug 2026Ryan Mangan

How to Track and Prove Cloud Cost Savings

Track cloud cost savings with confidence: set a defensible baseline, record every action, measure like for like, and report a savings ledger that holds up.

29 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

Microsoft 365 Business Premium vs E3 vs E5: Getting the Plan Mix Right

How to choose between Microsoft 365 Business Premium, E3 and E5, segment users into cohorts, and mix plans in one tenant to match cost to real need.

26 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

Microsoft 365 Offboarding Checklist: Stop Paying for Leavers

A step-by-step Microsoft 365 offboarding checklist: block sign-in, revoke sessions, convert the mailbox to shared, hand over OneDrive, and remove the licence.

20 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

How to Find Unused Microsoft 365 Licences (and Reclaim Them)

Find unused Microsoft 365 licences with the admin centre and Get-MgSubscribedSku, tell unassigned from dormant seats, and run a monthly reclaim loop.

14 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

How to Reduce Microsoft 365 and Azure Costs: 9 Practical Steps

Nine practical steps to reduce Microsoft 365 and Azure costs: reclaim unused licences, right-size VMs, clear idle resources, and fix your plan mix.

11 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

EfficientEther Expands EtherInsights with Security, Copilot Readiness, and Endpoint Assessments

EfficientEther expands EtherInsights with Microsoft 365 security posture, Copilot readiness, and endpoint assessments that return scored findings in minutes.

9 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness Assessment: A Practical Checklist

A four-pillar Copilot readiness assessment covering licensing prerequisites, security and oversharing, data governance, and adoption, with a checklist for each.

8 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

Mapping Microsoft 365 Settings to Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001

A practical mapping of Microsoft 365, Entra, and Intune settings to the Cyber Essentials controls and ISO 27001:2022 Annex A controls your auditors ask about.

5 Jul 2026Ryan Mangan

Why Monthly Cloud Reporting Leaves Spend Unchallenged

Monthly cloud reporting shows what was billed, but spend control needs proof of unused licences, idle Azure capacity, and named next actions.

3 Apr 2026Ryan Mangan

Northamber Signs Distribution Agreement with EfficientEther

Northamber signs a UK distribution agreement with EfficientEther, making EtherInsights and EtherAssist available to its reseller network.

1 Sept 2025Ryan Mangan

EfficientEther Launches EtherInsights Globally

EtherInsights launches globally with Microsoft 365 and Azure cost optimisation, savings insight, device visibility, and ESG reporting.

16 May 2025Ryan Mangan

EfficientEther Announces EtherInsights: Early Adoption Now Open

EfficientEther unveils EtherInsights, an AI-powered platform for understanding and optimising Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud spend. Early adoption is now open.

17 Mar 2025Ryan Mangan

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EtherInsights

Find Microsoft 365 and Azure waste, prove savings, then run Windows 365 planning, deployment, management, and migration evidence from the same operating view.

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