Microsoft, Cloud & Infrastructure
Your Microsoft estate should work as one.
Identity, devices, Microsoft 365 and cloud deliver more value when they are configured, secured and managed as one connected estate.
What are you trying to achieve?
15 questions · Instant score · PDF report
Includes governance, admin access, MFA, Conditional Access and security-baseline questions.
Talk to us firstMicrosoft, Cloud & Infrastructure
Your Microsoft estate should work as one.
Identity, devices, Microsoft 365 and cloud deliver more value when they are configured, secured and managed as one connected estate.
15 questions · Instant score · PDF report
Talk to us firstWhat are you trying to achieve?
Covering
Microsoft 365Entra IDIntuneAzureDefenderTeams & SharePointCopilot & AI readinessThe problem
Most Microsoft environments drift - slowly, silently, and at cost.
Drift
Visibility
Control
What you notice
You are paying for Business Premium or E3/E5 but the team only uses Exchange and Teams.
What is really happening
Defender, Intune, Purview and Entra ID Premium features are inactive - paid for and providing nothing. This is a configuration problem, not a licence problem.
What Assured Digital changes
A licence audit identifies every inactive capability and whether a tier adjustment would close specific gaps - giving a clear picture before any spend decision.
What you notice
You are paying for Business Premium or E3/E5 but the team only uses Exchange and Teams.
What is really happening
Defender, Intune, Purview and Entra ID Premium features are inactive - paid for and providing nothing. This is a configuration problem, not a licence problem.
What Assured Digital changes
A licence audit identifies every inactive capability and whether a tier adjustment would close specific gaps - giving a clear picture before any spend decision.
What we own
Every layer of the Microsoft estate - configured and managed.
Select a layer to see scope, common failure points, Assured Digital's responsibility and the technologies involved.
One connected Microsoft estate
Select a layer to explore ownership
Select an estate layer above to see scope and ownership details.
What changes
Better-configured Microsoft environments deliver measurable outcomes.
Before
Conditional Access left at deployment defaults. MFA exceptions granted temporarily and never reverted. Admin accounts with persistent global admin rights.
What we change
We enforce Conditional Access across all users and devices, close every MFA exception with a documented decision, and separate admin accounts from daily-use accounts using Privileged Identity Management.
Result
Identity configuration that reflects intentional decisions rather than accumulated defaults - with a clear record of what is enforced and why.
Defender for Business or Defender for Endpoint deployed but never reviewed. Alerts accumulating with no triage owner. Device compliance policies defined but not enforced via Conditional Access.
We connect compliance policies to Conditional Access so device state is a real control, assign alert triage ownership, and review Defender configuration against the environment.
Security tooling that actively limits access based on device state rather than passively recording events.
No visibility of who has access to what across SharePoint, Teams or shared mailboxes. Leavers still present in some systems. Service accounts with permissions that were never scoped.
We run a structured access review across identity, SharePoint permissions and service accounts ��� producing a prioritised remediation plan tied to existing licence capabilities.
A clear and current picture of access across the estate, with every exception documented and a path to resolution.
Before
Conditional Access left at deployment defaults. MFA exceptions granted temporarily and never reverted. Admin accounts with persistent global admin rights.
What we change
We enforce Conditional Access across all users and devices, close every MFA exception with a documented decision, and separate admin accounts from daily-use accounts using Privileged Identity Management.
Result
Identity configuration that reflects intentional decisions rather than accumulated defaults - with a clear record of what is enforced and why.
Before
Defender for Business or Defender for Endpoint deployed but never reviewed. Alerts accumulating with no triage owner. Device compliance policies defined but not enforced via Conditional Access.
What we change
We connect compliance policies to Conditional Access so device state is a real control, assign alert triage ownership, and review Defender configuration against the environment.
Result
Security tooling that actively limits access based on device state rather than passively recording events.
Before
No visibility of who has access to what across SharePoint, Teams or shared mailboxes. Leavers still present in some systems. Service accounts with permissions that were never scoped.
What we change
We run a structured access review across identity, SharePoint permissions and service accounts ��� producing a prioritised remediation plan tied to existing licence capabilities.
Result
A clear and current picture of access across the estate, with every exception documented and a path to resolution.
Customer evidence
Supporting ASDAN with Microsoft 365 control and data governance.
ASDAN is an education charity and awarding organisation. Assured Digital supports their Microsoft 365 environment, data governance programme and cyber resilience posture - covering the full estate from identity and endpoint management through to SharePoint governance and ongoing licence optimisation.
What Assured Digital delivered
Technologies
The Bottle Yard Studios - Film & TV
Managed technology and Microsoft environment for the UK's largest dedicated film and TV studio complex.
Assured Digital supports the studio's managed technology and Microsoft 365 environment across its Bristol operations.
Read the story
Azure - Hybrid work
Azure Virtual Desktop: delivering a secure, consistent desktop experience for hybrid teams.
How AVD removes device dependency, reduces endpoint complexity and gives IT teams full control over the delivered desktop.
Read the insightMicrosoft 365 - Assessment
Microsoft 365 Productivity & Control Review: what the diagnostic produces.
A scored self-assessment across five control areas - governance, collaboration, identity and guest access, information protection and Copilot readiness.
Start the diagnosticMicrosoft 365 Productivity & Control Review
See where Microsoft 365 control, adoption and AI readiness may be drifting.
Answer 15 questions across five Microsoft 365 control areas. Receive an instant score and PDF report covering governance, collaboration, identity and guest access, information protection and Copilot readiness, plus productivity and automation.
15 questions · Instant score · PDF report
What the diagnostic produces
Five-area control score
A scored view based on your answers across five Microsoft 365 control areas.
Control-gap indicators
Signals around ownership, privileged access, security consistency, collaboration sprawl and external access.
Copilot and information-protection readiness
Indicators covering oversharing, content hygiene, sensitivity labels, DLP and AI readiness.
Productivity and licence-value signals
Potential adoption gaps, licence underuse and workflow-automation opportunities.
Prioritised next steps
Practical actions and relevant support pathways included in your PDF report.
Connected services