🏷️ SPECS:Company Email That WorksBusiness Standard LicencesShared Drive, Not WhatsAppTeams Calls IncludedDefender for BusinessMail Stops Hitting SpamExchange Online MailboxesSame-Day Mailbox SetupOutlook on Every PhoneINR Billing, GST InvoiceBusiness Premium LicencesWipe a Lost PhoneSecond Check at LoginIntune Device ControlSPF, DKIM, DMARCNothing Lost in TransitEntra ID Sign-InOne Copy, Not FiveWeekend Cutover WindowEx-Staff Mailbox KeptBusiness Basic TierEnterprise E3 and E5Moving Off GoDaddyZimbra or cPanel MigrationSharePoint Shared DriveRight Licence Per PersonBilled by Local PartnerAdd or Drop LicencesStop Spoofed InvoicesAdmin Help on Call
Nothing derails a month-end like a mailbox that has stopped receiving because it is full, and it always happens to the person raising invoices. Old accounts on cheap hosting run out of room quickly, and the usual fix is deleting mail somebody will want later. Microsoft 365 gives each person far more room, plus an archive that moves older mail out of the way instead of throwing it away. Microtech Solutions sizes all of this at the start, so nobody is hunting for attachments to delete at nine at night.
📞 Buying Microsoft Microsoft 365 Licences, Setup & Email Migration Without the Guesswork close to Rishra
You are paying for thirty licences and the accounts team can name about twenty-two people. Somewhere along the way somebody sold everyone the same plan, including the shop floor supervisor who only ever reads mail on a phone. A licence review usually shows that a mix of plans costs less than one plan for all, and that two or three seats can be dropped outright. We do the counting first and the quotation second, which is the opposite of how licences normally get sold.
The mail server sits in a cupboard behind the accounts room, and everyone in the office knows the sound it makes when the power flickers. Small companies across Kolkata ran their own mail for years because there was no sensible alternative; there is one now, and it needs no UPS, no antivirus renewal and nobody to restart it on a Sunday. Moving those mailboxes into Microsoft's cloud takes a weekend and keeps every old message, contact and calendar entry. The cupboard machine stays readable for a fortnight afterwards, just in case.
👍 Why Owners Stop Worrying About This close to Rishra
Most companies we meet have three domains: the one on the website, one from a brand name they stopped using, and one somebody registered years ago and forgot. Mail arriving on all three, none of them authenticated, is an administrative headache and a security hole in the same breath. Bringing them into one tenant gives you one address book, one set of records to keep, and old addresses that still deliver to the right person. It is dull work that removes a surprising amount of daily friction.
Auditors ask awkward questions about mail from three years ago, and 'the employee took his laptop' is not an answer that survives the meeting. How far back you can search is decided by retention and archive settings, and those need choosing at setup rather than after the request arrives. For CA firms in Kolkata, and for anyone getting ready for the data protection rules now coming in (DPDP Act), we place holds on the mailboxes that matter and write down what is kept and for how long. Nobody enjoys this conversation, but it is far cheaper before than after.
Shared Logins Replaced with Named Accounts at a Multi-Branch Dealership
A commodity trading office of eighteen people was paying for the top plan for every seat, including four warehouse staff who read mail on a phone and nothing else. We went through the list person by person, moved the warehouse and reception seats to a web-only plan, kept the full installed apps for accounts and the directors, and dropped two accounts belonging to people who had left. The bill came down at renewal without anybody losing a feature they were actually using. They now do the same review with us each year before the renewal date.
🛡️ ON-SITE PRACTICE AND FIELD EXPERIENCE
Support After Go-Live and Who to Ring
Before anything moves, we list every mailbox, alias, distribution list and device that touches mail in your office in Rishra. That audit is dull work, and it is exactly where the surprises get caught: the forgotten sales address, the scanner that mails PDFs, the director's phone nobody ever set up. Only once that list is agreed do we put a date on the wall.
Chargeable services available on site and remotely across Kolkata:
▪Teams Rollout and Getting People Off WhatsApp
▪Stopping Sensitive Files Leaving by Email (DLP)
▪Single Sign-On and Second-Check Login (Entra ID, MFA)
▪Ongoing Tenant Admin, AMC and New Joiner Setup
*Notice: Migration planning, cutover attendance and post-move fixes are quoted as paid work before we begin, with no obligation to continue afterwards.*
💡 Engineering Fact: A mailbox stores mail and needs a licence. An alias is just a second address into the same mailbox and costs nothing. A distribution list stores nothing at all - it copies incoming mail to a group. Picking the wrong one is how firms overpay for years.
📬 SHARED MAILBOX CLEAN-UP
One info@ password shared by half the office, and nobody knows who answered what? Let us give everyone in Rishra a named account and turn the general addresses into shared mailboxes.
🗂️ Product and Licence Line-Up in and around Rishra
Scan the options, then tell us your headcount and we will suggest a mix that avoids waste:
Microsoft 365 Business Standard - Installed Office Apps, Email and Teams
For office teams who need Word and Excel installed on the laptop, company email on every phone, and one place to keep files. This is where most small and mid-sized firms land.
🔹 FILE STORAGE
1TB of personal cloud space each, team libraries alongside it, and old versions kept so an accidental overwrite is not fatal.
🔹 WHAT IT DOESN'T INCLUDE
Full management of Windows laptops, app protection policies and BitLocker key backup (Intune), plus attachment sandboxing and sign-in restriction rules - all of that sits in the Premium plan. Enrolled phones can still be wiped from here using the free mobile controls built into this plan (Basic Mobility and Security).
🔹 MAILBOX SIZE
50GB each, which is several years of mail for most people, plus shared calendars the whole team can see.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium - Standard Plus Security and Device Control
For firms holding client money, patient records or drawings, where one stolen laptop is a real problem. Everything in Standard, with device control and tougher sign-in rules layered on.
🔹 STOPPING DATA WALKING OUT
Mail carrying PAN, Aadhaar or bank account numbers can be flagged, blocked or encrypted on its way out the door (data loss prevention and sensitivity labels).
🔹 WHAT IT DOESN'T INCLUDE
Desk-phone calling and the deep compliance tooling of the big enterprise plans; both are bought separately if you need them.
🔹 EVERYTHING IN STANDARD
The same installed apps, 50GB mailboxes, cloud drive and Teams - nothing is traded away to get the security.
Exchange Online Plan 1 and Plan 2 - Company Email on Its Own
For teams that already own Office or spend the day inside Tally, and only want a reliable inbox on the company area. Mail, calendar and contacts, without paying for apps nobody opens.
🔹 MAILBOX SIZE
50GB on Plan 1. Plan 2 doubles the main mailbox to 100GB and adds an archive that keeps expanding as it fills up.
🔹 SPAM AND VIRUS FILTERING
Every incoming message passes Microsoft's filters before it reaches anyone, which removes the bulk of junk and known malware (Exchange Online Protection).
🔹 WHAT IT DOESN'T INCLUDE
No Teams, no OneDrive, no SharePoint, no Office installs. Email and calendar, full stop.
Moving the Shared Office Drive into SharePoint and OneDrive
For offices still passing files around on a server in the corner, a NAS box, pen drives or WhatsApp. We lift the folders into the cloud with the structure and the permissions intact.
🔹 TRAINING
A short hands-on session per department, because the migration that fails is the one where staff quietly go back to emailing attachments.
🔹 PERMISSIONS
Salary and tender folders lock down to named people, and sharing outside the company can be switched off or limited to approved domains.
🔹 WHO IT'S FOR
Any office in Kolkata where the file server is ageing, the backup is nobody's job, and staff away from the desk cannot reach the data.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic - Webmail for Shift and Shop-Floor Staff
The entry plan for giving every employee a proper company address without buying installed Office for people who will never open Excel. Runs in a browser and on the phone.
🔹 USER LIMIT
The small-business plans stop at a few hundred seats; beyond that we move you onto the enterprise line instead.
🔹 SETUP TIME
Adding Basic users to a tenant whose area is already verified is a same-hour job.
🔹 DESKTOP OFFICE APPS
Not included. Files open and edit in a browser tab or the mobile apps, which covers reading, approving and light changes.
Teams Calling and Meeting Room Setup (Phone System)
For firms who want the reception line, the desk phones and the boardroom screen running through Teams instead of a separate PBX box. Calls follow the person to laptop or mobile.
🔹 SETUP TIME
Porting existing numbers runs on the operator's clock and is the slow part; the Teams configuration itself takes a couple of days.
🔹 WHAT YOU GET
A real phone number inside Teams, with hold, transfer, ring groups, a menu for callers and voicemail dropped into the inbox (Teams Phone).
🔹 CALL REPORTING
Who rang, who missed it, how long people waited - the numbers a sales head actually asks about on Monday.
Device Management and Lost-Phone Control (Microsoft Intune)
For firms worried about what walks out of the building on a staff phone or laptop. Company data can be removed from a missing device without touching the owner's photos.
🔹 WHEN SOMEONE LEAVES
Access is cut and the device wiped from the same screen where you disable the account - minutes, rather than a fortnight of chasing.
🔹 WHO IT'S FOR
Field sales teams, offices where staff use their own phones for work, and anyone who has already lost a laptop once.
🔹 SETUP TIME
One working session to agree the policies, then devices enrolled in batches so the support calls stay manageable.
Desktop Office Licensing for Larger Firms (Microsoft 365 Apps)
Installed Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for organisations that have outgrown the small-business plans or already run their email somewhere else. No ceiling on user count.
🔹 WHAT IT DOESN'T INCLUDE
There is no mailbox here. Email either stays where it is or gets bought as a separate Exchange Online plan.
🔹 WHY NOT A ONE-TIME buy
A boxed copy stops receiving security fixes once its support window closes. A subscription copy keeps getting them, which matters the day a macro-laden invoice arrives.
🔹 AUDIT PAPERWORK
Clean records of exactly who is licensed, which is the question that surfaces when a bank, an auditor or a large customer reviews your systems.
Ongoing Microsoft 365 Support and Licence Management (Monthly Retainer)
Somebody to call when a new joiner needs an address by 9am or a director cannot sign in before a flight. We look after the tenant month to month so it stops drifting.
🔹 WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY RING ABOUT
A phone left in a taxi, a mail that bounced, a shared calendar nobody can open, a folder deleted at 6pm on Friday.
🔹 MAIL DELIVERY WATCH
We read the reports that say whether your invoices are reaching customers or quietly sitting in their junk folder, and fix the area records when they slip (DMARC reporting).
🔹 HONESTY ABOUT BACKUP
Microsoft keeps the service running; it does not keep a copy of a folder someone deleted eight months ago. We set retention properly and add separate backup where the risk deserves it.
✉️ Service & Maintenance Support
Need site visits, AMC contract estimates, or customized installation architecture? Connect with our technical desk directly.
Licence tiers deserve an afternoon of somebody's honest attention. Premium is genuinely worth it for anyone handling money, customer data or company laptops, but putting it on a warehouse supervisor who reads two mails a day on a phone is money burnt. I build the list person by person with the office manager sitting next to me, because she knows who actually opens Excel and who does not. That single conversation usually saves more than the setup fee.
Microsoft 365 versus Google Workspace is the comparison we are asked for most, and Google is a good product - we will say so. Companies whose people live in Sheets and Docs, or who have never used desktop Office, often stay happier there. Microsoft pulls ahead when your accounts team runs heavy Excel files, when you want the installed applications rather than browser versions, or when you need device management and Office in one subscription rather than two.
Buying licences directly on a card gets you the same software at broadly the same price, so the question is what happens afterwards. You get a foreign-currency receipt, no local tax invoice, and a support process that begins with a web form. Through Microtech Solutions you get rupee billing with GST, seats you can change, and an engineer who already knows why your tenant is configured the way it is.
💡 Engineering Fact: Microsoft commits to 99.9% availability with service credits if it misses. Read that honestly: outages are rare but not impossible, so the fallback plan is a mobile phone and a second internet line, not a spare mail server in the cupboard.
☎️ Contract Terms Without the Small Print close to Rishra
Type of Business
What We Set Up
Typical Time Needed
Agencies and Design Studios
Client folders on the shared drive, big files sent as links, guest access for clients who need it
Three days including the staff walkthrough
Car and Equipment Dealerships
One address per branch, a shared enquiries inbox, and mail working on the sales team's phones
Four days across three branches
Clinics and Diagnostic Centres
Reception and doctor mailboxes, one shared reports inbox, and a phone prompt at every login
Three to four days, reception never stops
🔍 Speed, Capacity and Where the Ceiling Sits close to Rishra
By about week four most people share a link instead of emailing the attachment around.
WHAT WORKS IN DAILY USE - THE SHORT VERSION
WHO IT DOES NOT SUIT WITHOUT THE SALES PITCH
✓Attachments from people you have never dealt with get opened in a safe box first, and links are re-checked at the moment somebody clicks (Safe Links and Safe Attachments).
—If both the admin credentials and the emergency account are lost, getting control back from Microsoft is slow and painful.
✓No more pen drives and no more guessing which copy is the latest - department files in one place, 1 TB of personal space each (OneDrive and SharePoint).
—A 60 GB mailbox on an ordinary office line takes days to copy, so the big accounts are started well before cutover night.
✓Company email on every phone and laptop, 50 GB per person, with Microsoft's own uptime commitment behind it (Exchange Online).
—Standard mailboxes stop at 50 GB and the archive is not unlimited on the lower plans; heavy users do hit the ceiling.
✓Your mail stops landing in customers' spam folders once the area records are written correctly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
—Office apps check in with Microsoft roughly once a month; a machine kept permanently offline eventually goes read-only.
✓One username opens everything, and switching a leaver off takes a single click (Microsoft Entra ID).
—Changing MX and DNS records needs login access to the area registrar, often held by a web designer nobody has spoken to in years.
💡 Engineering Fact: A link that was harmless when the mail arrived can turn nasty an hour later. That is why the protection re-tests the link at the moment somebody clicks it, not just at delivery (Safe Links).
⚡ SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE
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🔹Schedule the actual switch for a Friday evening or the start of a long weekend in Rishra - never a Monday, and never the last three days of a month when invoicing is running.
🔹Roll the second login check out to a small pilot group first, keep one emergency administrator account outside the policy, and only then extend it to the rest of the company.
🔹Tell staff in writing, the day before, that they will be asked to sign in once more and approve a prompt on their phone; the support calls you avoid by sending that one message are considerable.
📃 Feature List and Technical Detail around Rishra
What we take on is worth pinning down before anyone talks about price. This service suits companies of roughly five to three hundred users who want proper company email, a shared drive and Teams, set up once and properly. Microtech Solutions handles the licence choice, the tenant, the area records, the mailbox and file move, the device and security settings, and the walkthrough with your staff at the end. Businesses in Rishra get the same running order at eight seats as at two hundred.
The plan tiers matter more than most buyers are told. Business Basic gives mail, the shared drive and Teams with the apps in a browser; Standard adds Word, Excel and Outlook installed on the machine; Premium adds the security and device controls on top of that. Different people in the same company usually need different ones, and you can mix them freely on one bill. We recommend the mix in writing before anything is ordered so you can see the reasoning.
🏆 CORE PARAMETER🔹 How long setup takesA small tenant usable in a working day; mail cutover overnight, with a settling day for DNS
🔹 Billed asPer user, monthly or yearly, in rupees on a GST invoice from {COMPANY}
🔹 Desktop Word and ExcelInstalled on Business Standard, Premium and the Apps plans; browser-only on Basic
🔹 If a phone is lostWork mail and files wiped from that handset remotely, personal photos left alone
🔹 Mailbox size50GB per person on most plans, 100GB plus an expanding archive on the larger email plan
🔹 Two-step sign-inA prompt or code on the phone, so a password picked off a fake login page is not enough by itself
🔹 Meetings and callingVideo meetings for up to 300 people; desk-phone numbers through Teams as an add-on
Inside Microsoft's Data Centres: Where Your Mail Actually Lives
There are three plans most Indian businesses choose between. Business Basic covers mail, files and Teams with the Office apps running in a browser. Business Standard adds the full applications installed on desktops, laptops and phones. Business Premium adds the security and device controls: protection against fake invoices and links that lead somewhere they should not, plus full management of company laptops and staff handsets.
Exchange Online is the mail half, and it is the reason most companies move. Each user gets a large mailbox that keeps in step across a laptop, a phone and a browser, so a message read on the way home is already read when you sit down. Shared team calendars, one company address book and generic addresses like info@ or accounts@ that several staff work from are all part of it, and the general addresses need no licence of their own.
✉️ SUPPORT DESK
Coordinate custom hardware configurations, AMC maintenance contracts, and site engineering visits directly with authorized integration desks.
Turnkey Microsoft 365 Licences, Setup & Email Migration Metrics Checklist near Rishra
🛠️ Workflow Setup
The final switch happens out of hours, a Saturday night or a Sunday morning, with the routing changed and a live test mail sent before we stop for the night.
⚠️ Pitfalls to Avoid
Switching the area's anti-forgery policy to full reject on day one will bounce your own newsletters and your accounting software; publish it loose, read the reports, then tighten.
🔌 Guidelines & Sizing
Budget the renewal now rather than next year, since licences are an annual line item like insurance and the count usually creeps upward as you hire.
📈 Upgrade Triggers
Someone in accounts receives a mail that appears to come from the director, asking for an urgent transfer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Is Microsoft 365 better than Google Workspace for us?
It depends on what your office already runs on, and Microtech Solutions moves clients in both directions. If your team lives inside Excel, with real formulas, accounting exports and GST workings, Microsoft is the more comfortable home because the desktop apps are the genuine article rather than a browser imitation. If everybody works in a browser, shares documents constantly and rarely opens a spreadsheet more than a few hundred rows long, Google does the job and changing for its own sake wastes money. We would rather tell you your current setup is fine than sell you a migration you do not need.
Q. Can our Tally software and the office printer still send emails after the move?
Yes, but every one of them needs reconfiguring, and this is the step most businesses forget until the first invoice fails to leave the building. Anything that sends mail on its own, whether it is Tally, the scan-to-email button on the copier, an ERP mailing buy orders or the website enquiry form, has to be pointed at the new service with proper credentials or approved as a legitimate sender for your area. We write down every such device and application before cutover, then test each one the same evening. Older printers that only support outdated, unencrypted sending sometimes need a firmware update or a small relay arrangement.
Q. Our broadband is slow and drops during the day. Will people still be able to work?
Mostly yes, and the first few days are the real test. Outlook keeps a full copy of each mailbox on the laptop, so staff carry on reading and writing during an outage and everything sends when the line comes back, whereas a Teams call feels every hiccup immediately. The heavy part is the initial download of mailboxes and files, which we schedule overnight or stagger a few users at a time so the office line is not choked during business hours. If the connection drops every day, a second broadband link from a different provider will do more for you than anything we can change in software.
Q. Do we still need a separate backup if everything is in Microsoft's cloud?
Yes, and this is the misunderstanding we correct most often. Microsoft's job is keeping the service running and the data centres alive; it is not keeping a copy of the folder your accountant deleted in March. Deleted items and old versions sit in recycle bins for a limited window and then they are genuinely gone, and ransomware that encrypts a synced OneDrive folder will cheerfully sync the damage upward. A separate cloud-to-cloud backup takes its own copy of mailboxes, OneDrive and SharePoint on its own schedule, and it is an additional per-user subscription, which for most businesses is money well spent.
Q. How do you handle the huge PST archive files sitting on people's laptops?
We collect them and load them into online archive mailboxes, so the mail becomes searchable from any device instead of being stranded on one machine. PST files are the most fragile part of any old email setup: they corrupt, they get copied onto pen drives, and they vanish along with the laptop. Loading years of archive eats time and bandwidth, so we normally run it after cutover rather than letting it hold up the go-live date. Bear in mind that very large archives need a higher licence level, which occasionally changes what we recommend for two or three long-serving staff.
💡 Engineering Fact: Sending a 30MB attachment to twelve people creates thirteen copies and often bounces at the far end anyway. A link to the file in the shared drive is one copy, always the current one, and you can withdraw access later.
🔄 THE REST OF OUR IT WORK
What else we look after for offices in and around Rishra
Once the mailboxes are live, an IT maintenance contract keeps the desktops, printers and helpdesk behind them ticking over in Kolkata.
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