Microsoft cloud

Microsoft 365 & Cloud Services

Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange Online — configured, secured and migrated by people who have done it in production.

What does Microsoft 365 management include?

Managing Microsoft 365 means running the tenant, not just buying licenses: identity and group structure in Entra ID, device enrollment and policy in Intune, mail flow and protection in Exchange Online, file architecture in SharePoint and OneDrive, Conditional Access and MFA policy, license optimization, and protection of the data those services hold.

Identity first: Entra ID and Active Directory

Identity is the control plane of the modern environment. We design group structure, licensing groups, admin role separation, MFA enforcement and Conditional Access policies that reflect how people actually work — including shop-floor accounts and shared devices.

Whether Entra ID can replace an on-premises domain controller depends on what still depends on it: legacy line-of-business apps, print servers, file shares, machine-level GPO. We map those dependencies before recommending a path rather than after.

Device management with Intune

Autopilot-style provisioning for new machines
Compliance policies feeding Conditional Access
Application deployment and update rings
Disk encryption and local admin control
Mobile access policy for mail and Teams
Remote wipe for lost or departing devices

File architecture: file servers, SharePoint and OneDrive

Most migration pain is not technical, it is structural. Twenty years of nested folders and inherited permissions do not translate cleanly into SharePoint libraries, and lifting them as-is produces a system nobody can navigate or secure.

We map the data, decide what becomes a SharePoint site, what belongs in OneDrive, what stays on a file server for performance reasons, and what should simply be archived — then migrate with permissions intact and a cutover plan employees can follow.

Cloud modernization without a religious argument

Cloud is not automatically cheaper or better, and on-premises is not automatically outdated. A manufacturer with a latency-sensitive ERP database and a plant that must keep running during an internet outage has legitimate reasons to keep infrastructure local.

We recommend hybrid architectures where they are the right answer, and full cloud where they are not.

Common questions

Straight answers, no sales theater.

What is Microsoft Entra ID?

Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud identity service, formerly Azure AD. It authenticates users to Microsoft 365 and connected applications, and it enforces MFA and Conditional Access policy.

Can Entra ID replace our domain controller?

Sometimes. It depends on what still requires on-premises Active Directory — legacy apps, file shares, print, or machine policy. We inventory those dependencies before recommending removal.

Should we move our file server to SharePoint?

Often yes for collaboration data, with exceptions for very large files, latency-sensitive workflows and applications that expect a UNC path. The right answer is usually a mix, decided by how the data is used.

Can Machina IT manage Microsoft 365?

Yes — tenant administration, identity, Intune, security configuration, migrations and day-to-day support are core services for us.

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