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Reno, Nevada
Microsoft 365 consulting for Reno businesses that inherited their email setup.
Thomas and Jakob Beach do the licensing, migration, setup, and training from Reno, NV, and Austin Whan keeps the project moving. Beach Intelligence runs on Microsoft 365 itself, and every admin login ends up in your business's name.
Who calls us
The email setups people call about.
Email is a mix of personal Gmail accounts, a domain somebody's nephew set up, and one shared password the whole office knows.
The firm bought Microsoft 365 and uses it as expensive Outlook. Files sit on a shared drive in the closet, Teams was opened once, and nobody checked which plan the office needed.
The last IT person held every admin login. He left, and the tenant, the registrar, and the backup account were all under his email address. Nobody in the building can change a setting.
What you get
Six things that ship with the setup.
Migration without losing history
Mail, calendars, contacts, and files move from Google Workspace or an old server with their history intact. The old system stays readable until you confirm nothing is missing.
Sign-in security done properly
Multifactor authentication on every account, starting with email and administrator access. Admin accounts are separated from daily accounts, recovery details are recorded, and access is removed the day someone leaves.
Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive set up around the work
SharePoint libraries laid out the way the team already sorts its work, OneDrive for personal files, and Teams channels to match, with training for the people who will use them.
Devices enrolled and managed
Laptops and phones are enrolled so updates run and a lost device can be wiped. A new employee gets a working machine on day one, and a leaver's device and account are closed together.
Documentation and every admin login in your name
The tenant, the domain, and every administrator account are in your business's name, with a written record of what is set up, where it renews, and who owns it. If we part ways, you keep all of it.
How it works here
From the first call to the handover.
The first call
You tell us what email and files run on today and what is wrong. We ask how many people there are, where the domain is registered, and who holds the admin logins. Thomas or Jakob takes the call and does the work.
The written quote
One fixed price and a schedule in writing before anything moves. The quote names the plans and who gets which. Our quoting process is on the pricing page.
The migration
We build the new tenant beside the old system and copy mail and files across while people keep working. The cutover is planned for a quiet day, and the old system stays reachable so there is a way back if something is wrong.
The handover
The tenant, the domain, and every admin login end up in your accounts, with the documentation. We train the team and leave written instructions. From there you either stop, or move to Managed and we hold the tenant month to month.
A real example
What a typical migration looks like here.
An office moving off Google Workspace
This is a description of the work, not a named case: our work page lists Microsoft 365 among the things we do without attaching a client to it. An office in Reno runs on Google Workspace and the domain is registered under a former employee, so the first job is moving the registrar and DNS into the business's name. The tenant is built with plans matched to each person, multifactor authentication on, and separate admin accounts. Mail, calendars, and Drive files are copied across while everyone keeps working, and the cutover happens on a quiet day with the Workspace account left readable. Afterwards the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records are checked, devices are enrolled, backups are tested, the team is trained, and the setup is written down.
Questions people ask
Before you call.
Should we move from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365?
It depends on what your team already has and what the move would solve. If your files are Word documents and Excel models with formulas that matter, Microsoft 365 opens them as they are. If the work already happens in a browser, either suite will do it. A change should solve a problem you can name, and staying with a familiar system is also a reasonable choice. The comparison is in our article Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
How long does a migration take?
It depends on how many mailboxes and how much file history there are, whether the domain and DNS are already in your control, and how quickly your team can agree on a cutover date. A business that controls its own domain moves faster than one that first has to recover access from a former employee. The schedule is in the written quote.
Will we lose email or files?
The migration is planned so that you do not. Mail, calendars, contacts, and files are copied into Microsoft 365 before anything is switched, and the old system stays readable until you have confirmed everything is there. We list where files live before we start, including laptops, so nothing gets missed. The baseline is in our article What a two-person business actually needs from IT.
Which plan do we need?
The plans people ask about are Business Basic, Standard, and Premium, and an office often needs a mix. Basic gives you business email, Teams, OneDrive storage, and the web and mobile Office apps. Standard adds the desktop apps installed on the computer. Premium adds the identity, device management, and threat protection controls that the security work on this page depends on.
What happens after we are set up?
Some businesses take the documentation and run the tenant themselves. Others choose a support agreement with a custom quote for the tenant: we hold the tenant, handle new employees and leavers, adjust licenses, check backups and access, and take the call when email breaks or a laptop will not sign in. Your business keeps its accounts and the configuration delivered with the project.
Related
Other work we do for Reno businesses.
Get in touch
Tell us what's wrong.
Send what your email runs on today and what it is failing to do. We are in Reno, NV. Call (775) 993-0103 or email hello@beachintelligence.co.