Managing Your O365 Tenant
Enterprise Office 365 tenant management presents IT teams with significant challenges due to the multiple workloads, admin consoles, and data sources used in managing Office 365.
These challenges are compounded by a very high rate of change and limited native cross-workload management capabilities. As tenants grow larger these challenges become ever more difficult to manage, and they hamper administration, troubleshooting, and IT service delivery.
Challenges of Managing Large Tenants
- Poor visibility into what you have, especially the inability to break down licenses and their usage by function or geography
- Tension between the need to reduce the number of global admins for security and the need to grant more elevated admin privileges to increase flexibility and speed of problem-solving
- Difficult to grant the right permissions to the right people across the organizations, especially in geographically distributed organizations or in those with multiple business units
- Limited granularity of control inside the tenant. Native tools provide either too much or nothing which leads to regular attempts to manage the balance between central management and local autonomy
- No mechanism to create data boundaries around operating entities such as business units so that IT administrators can see only what they need to
- High difficulty of keeping up with the rapid pace of change driven by Microsoft in addition to the change required by your own business. Homegrown PowerShell-based management tools are very difficult to keep current
- Challenging to measure, monitor, and proactively increase adoption rates to maximize the value of your O365 investment.
Nova Office 365 Tenant Management for the Enterprise
- Provides IT with the tools for the job: unified reporting, delegation, and service quality monitoring give you complete visibility and control across your complex environment
- Nova’s Virtual Business Boundaries allow you to control who sees what data in the tenant. You can define VBBs to give business units, teams, regions, or countries view access to the data they need without compromising privacy or management boundaries. These dynamically update as users’ properties change. Data can be also be anonymized for user groups to comply with regional regulations
- Safely delegates the right level of access to every level of the organization, from self-service for front-line workers to selected privileges for branch office/small office managers
- Enables you to effectively manage your Microsoft Office 365 licenses. Bring license usage, spending, and adoption under control so that you buy only what you need. Automate license assignment based on AD or Azure AD group membership, organizational unit membership, or custom user attributes
- Ensures you can use the licenses you’ve bought – design and run adoption campaigns that coach and encourage users to use the workloads you’re paying for, boosting their productivity and improving your ROI
- Enables IT to can adapt faster and better to organizational changes because of the logical separation between IT and business boundaries.
If you’d like to learn more about advanced Office 365 tenant management with Quadrotech’s O365 management software, please contact our specialist team.
Tell us the challenges you’re looking to overcome, and we’ll show you how our solutions can help.