Microsoft 365 Migration, Governance & Management
Secure, well-governed cloud environments that support modern working without introducing unnecessary risk.
Microsoft 365 sits at the centre of most modern organisations’ IT environments, and is now far more than just Outlook and Microsoft Excel. When configured and managed properly, it enables secure collaboration, flexible working, and predictable operations. When poorly governed, it becomes a significant source of risk, data sprawl, and control gaps.
Plan IT Support provides ongoing governance and management of Microsoft 365 environments, ensuring they remain secure, controlled, and aligned with organisational and compliance requirements over time.
We are a Microsoft partner and authorised Microsoft 365 reseller, enabling us to supply and manage licences as part of an integrated managed service. This ensures licensing, security, and governance are considered together, rather than managed in isolation.
Beyond Microsoft 365 Migrations
We design and build Microsoft 365 environments with security, governance, and operational requirements in mind from the outset. This includes planning identity, data structures and access controls within a SharePoint filing system, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams so that the environment is usable on day one and manageable over time.
You may already have a Microsoft 365 tenant built either by yourself or another provider. But moving to Microsoft 365 is only the starting point. Long-term value comes from how the environment is configured, governed, and maintained once it is in use.
We focus on ensuring Microsoft 365 is implemented as a managed platform rather than a collection of loosely connected tools. This includes clear ownership, sensible defaults, and controls that balance usability with security.
Microsoft 365 Governance and Control
We help organisations maintain appropriate control over their Microsoft 365 environment as it evolves.
This typically includes managing user access, administrative roles, data sharing, and collaboration settings to reduce risk and prevent uncontrolled sprawl. Controls are reviewed periodically to ensure they remain appropriate as staff, working practices, and regulatory expectations change.
Our approach supports recognised best practice, including NCSC guidance and Cyber Essentials requirements, without over-engineering. We think it’s important that your Microsoft 365 environment works with and for you, not against you.
Security and Assurance in Microsoft 365
Security within Microsoft 365 relies on consistent configuration and enforcement rather than individual features.
We ensure that identity controls, access policies, device compliance, logging, and backups are implemented and maintained in a way that can be explained and evidenced if required. This supports wider security readiness, insurance requirements, and audit expectations.
Where we manage the wider IT environment, Microsoft 365 governance forms part of the overall security baseline.
Optimisation and Ongoing Management
Microsoft 365 environments can drift over time. Licences accumulate, structures become inconsistent, and controls weaken unless actively managed.
We provide ongoing oversight to ensure the environment remains fit for purpose. This may include licence reviews, structural clean-up of SharePoint and Teams, and measured improvements to how collaboration tools are used across the organisation.
The focus is on stability, clarity and value, not constant change.
Our Approach
We have found that SMBs engage us when:
- Microsoft 365 has grown organically without clear governance
- Security and sharing controls need tightening
- Licence costs have increased without clear benefit
- External assurance or compliance expectations are increasing
Our work can be delivered as part of an ongoing managed service or as a focused review and remediation exercise.
The outcome is a Microsoft 365 environment that supports modern working without becoming a source of unmanaged risk. Your business will gain clearer control, improved security posture and a confidence that their core collaboration platform is being actively managed rather than left to drift.