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Microsoft Cloud Solution Providersince 2026

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M365 Β· Azure Β· Copilot β€” under one accountable team.

Kootechnikel is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider. That means the licenses, the tenant configuration, the security baseline, and the support escalation all flow through us β€” not through a generic reseller and not through a Microsoft 1-800 line. One bill, one accountable engineer, one roadmap across Microsoft 365, Azure, and Copilot.

Three pillars Β· one team

Everything Microsoft, operated by people who do this every day.

Microsoft 365

Productivity, identity, security, compliance β€” one tenant we operate end-to-end.

  • Tenant migration + identity sync (Entra ID Connect)
  • Mailbox + file migration with white-glove cutover
  • Conditional Access baseline (block legacy auth, enforce MFA, device compliance)
  • License rightsizing reviews (E1 / E3 / E5 / Frontline / per workload)
  • Defender for Office 365 + Defender for Endpoint integration
  • Purview information protection (sensitivity labels + DLP)
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Microsoft Copilot

Secure AI rollout with governance baked in β€” pilot, prove, scale.

  • Tenant readiness audit (sensitivity labeling, Purview, license eligibility)
  • Pilot scoping (engineering / sales / exec β€” pick the right early seats)
  • Prompt + plugin governance policy (acceptable use, data residency)
  • Copilot Studio agent design for line-of-business workflows
  • Adoption metrics + per-team rollout reporting
  • Cost vs productivity dashboards (CSP billing + Microsoft analytics)
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Microsoft Azure

Subscription design, cost governance, and FinOps β€” without the surprise bill.

  • Subscription + management-group architecture
  • Landing-zone deployment (CAF-aligned)
  • Cost-management + budget alerts wired to your finance team
  • Reserved Instance + Savings Plan optimization
  • Hybrid + multi-cloud (Azure Arc, Azure ↔ AWS interop)
  • Defender for Cloud across compute / storage / SQL / containers
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What CSP actually unlocks

Six things you get from us that a generic reseller can’t deliver.

CSP isn’t a logo. It’s a billing + delegation + escalation architecture. Here’s what changes for you when we’re your CSP partner.

  • 01

    One bill, one throat to choke

    License invoices, tenant changes, support escalations all come through us. No more chasing Microsoft and your reseller and your IT firm separately when something breaks.

  • 02

    Tier-1 escalation through our partner channel

    When a Microsoft incident hits your tenant, we escalate through the CSP partner channel β€” typically faster than a customer-direct ticket. The case lands on our desk first.

  • 03

    Month-to-month license flexibility

    Add, remove, or downgrade seats monthly. No annual EA commitment lock-in. Hire 12 people in March, lose 4 in April β€” the bill follows the headcount.

  • 04

    Co-managed admin access by design

    You keep Global Admin for sovereignty; we hold a separate delegated-admin relationship via GDAP (Granular Delegated Admin Privileges). Time-bound, scope-limited, fully revocable by you at any time.

  • 05

    Tenant ownership stays with you

    If you ever leave us, the tenant is yours. We hand off Global Admin keys + documentation. CSPs that hold tenants hostage are an industry stain β€” we don't do that.

  • 06

    Continuous license rightsizing built into the relationship

    Quarterly review of every assigned license against actual usage. Typical first-year find: 12-22% spend recovery from idle E5s, dormant accounts, and over-licensed mailboxes.

Migration playbook

Three phases, one accountable engineer the whole way through.

  1. Discovery

    Week 1

    Tenant audit + identity baseline + license inventory.

    • Read-only audit of your existing M365 / Azure tenant(s)
    • Identity model assessment (cloud-only vs hybrid Entra ID)
    • License inventory matched to actual usage data
    • Security baseline gap report (Conditional Access, MFA, Defender posture)
  2. Cutover

    Weeks 2-4

    Migrate licenses to our CSP, deploy baselines, run parallel.

    • License transfer to our CSP tenant relationship (no service interruption)
    • GDAP relationship established + scoped per role
    • Conditional Access + MFA + Defender baselines deployed
    • Mailbox / file / identity sync in parallel with existing setup
    • Cutover weekend with senior engineer onsite or remote-paired
  3. Optimization

    Quarterly cadence

    License rightsizing, security tuning, Copilot/Azure rollout decisions.

    • Quarterly license rightsizing review (the typical 12-22% saving)
    • Security posture tuning (Conditional Access policy iteration)
    • Cost-governance review across Azure subscriptions
    • Copilot pilot scoping when readiness criteria are met
    • vCIO quarterly strategy review (see /vciio-sample for the artifact)
FAQ

The questions every Microsoft buyer asks us.

What is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider exactly?

CSP is Microsoft's partner program for organizations that resell, deploy, and operate Microsoft cloud services on a customer's behalf. We hold a direct billing relationship with Microsoft, so your licenses, support, and tenant changes all run through us as one accountable partner.

Will we lose any control of our tenant?

No. You keep Global Admin. We operate via GDAP (Granular Delegated Admin Privileges) β€” time-bound, scope-limited, role-specific access that you can revoke at any time. If you ever offboard us, the tenant + the data + the documentation are 100% yours.

Can you support our existing Microsoft EA / direct subscription?

Yes. We can either migrate your licenses to our CSP relationship (most common β€” unlocks the month-to-month flexibility), OR we can run on your existing EA / direct subscription with our team operating it. The CSP route is usually better for sub-500-seat businesses; EA stays competitive at enterprise scale.

What about Microsoft Copilot β€” should we adopt it?

Not until your Microsoft 365 tenant is ready for it. Sensitivity labeling, Purview DLP, and Conditional Access need to be in place first or Copilot becomes an information-leak vector. Our pilot scoping always starts with a readiness audit. See the deep Copilot page at /partners/microsoft-copilot for the full breakdown.

Are you certified to deploy Azure landing zones?

Yes. We design and deploy CAF-aligned (Cloud Adoption Framework) landing zones with management-group hierarchy, policy assignments, and the bicep / Terraform IaC to maintain them. We do this for both greenfield and brownfield Azure environments.

How quickly can we start?

Discovery kicks off the week you sign. Cutover happens over the following 2-4 weeks depending on tenant complexity. The free 90-minute IT health check at /contact produces the scoping document that drives the timeline.

Run Microsoft like an operator, not a license consumer.

Our free 90-minute IT health check audits your existing Microsoft tenant, surfaces the typical 12-22% license rightsizing wins, and scores your security baseline against the CIS Microsoft 365 benchmark. Yours to keep either way.

Book a Microsoft tenant audit