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Microsoft 365 Licence Waste Solution Brief
Leavers, duplicates and dormant accounts keep billing while the proof sits in three separate reports.
Handbooks and solution briefs
The practitioner library.
Book-length handbooks for the work, and two-page solution briefs for the decision meeting: what to measure, who decides, and what has to be true before you commit. All free, all written to be forwarded.
Everything here is free. No walkthrough required to read any of it.
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Practical handbooks for Microsoft IT teams
Use them to prepare a decision, run a workshop, or give a project team a shared starting point.
The Microsoft 365 and Azure Cost Optimisation Handbook
Find avoidable Microsoft 365 and Azure spend, agree changes with the right owners, and confirm the result before reporting savings.
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The Windows Application Migration and Packaging Handbook
Plan, package, test, and move Windows applications into production with clear ownership.
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The IT Support and Compliance Assistant Handbook
See how an AI assistant can help with support questions, troubleshooting, documentation, and compliance preparation while people stay in control.
Get the free handbookFrom Legacy VDI and AVD to Windows 365
Assess which VDI and AVD user groups fit Windows 365, build a defensible TCO case, prepare legacy applications, and migrate without losing day-two ownership.
Get the free handbookCost and licence pressure
Prove the saving before you promise it
Finance wants a number and IT has to defend it. These two briefs set out what the evidence must contain before a reclaim or a resize is approved.
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Azure Cost and Waste Solution Brief
Part of the Azure bill is still sized for a migration that finished a year ago.
Windows 365 and Cloud PC
Decide the model, then run it
A Cloud PC programme is approved once and lived with for years. These briefs cover the operating decision and the supported migration route.
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Windows 365 Management Solution Brief
The rollout reached production, but nobody can say why a particular user got that Cloud PC.
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Windows 365 Migration API Solution Brief
Microsoft supports the migration route. Eligibility, scheduling and cleanup around it are still yours to run.
Operations and endpoints
Stop rebuilding the same evidence
A recurring service review or a difficult device case should not start from an empty export.
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Intune Reporting Solution Brief
Every service review begins by rebuilding the same report pack from scratch.
Secure it and prove it
One baseline everyone can see
Security, governance and the service owner need the same findings, the same owners and the same record of what changed.
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Microsoft 365 Security Posture Solution Brief
Posture evidence lives across five consoles and then dies in a spreadsheet.
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Microsoft 365 Tenant Backup and Drift Solution Brief
A policy changed months ago and nobody can prove what it looked like before.
Govern AI adoption
Set the gate before access widens
A pilot makes existing access far easier to discover. Decide what has to close first, and who signs that off.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness Solution Brief
Copilot surfaces every oversharing mistake the tenant has been quietly carrying.
Rather see it against your own tenant
The briefs describe the method. The trial runs it.
Connect one tenant and EtherInsights produces the same evidence against your real estate, with owners and dates attached. Fourteen days, and you keep whatever you find.
Technology partnerships
Briefs we publish with our partners
Where a decision spans more than our own product, we write the brief with the partner who owns the other half of it.
Partnership brief
10ZiG and EtherInsights Solutions Brief
The Cloud PC case stalls twice: no usage evidence to size it, and an endpoint estate that never joins the numbers.
Bring the evidence to the next review
The briefs give you the shape of the decision. EtherInsights fills it in with your own tenant, so the reclaim, the resize or the rollout gate is argued from numbers rather than memory.