🏷️ 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
Last season a trading firm nearly paid out on an invoice that looked exactly like it came from their own accounts head - same name, same signature block, one letter changed in the address. That is what happens when a area is left open for anyone to forge mail in your company's name. Proper Microsoft 365 setup shuts that door with sender authentication and a rule that holds back anything pretending to be internal. We also add a second step at sign-in, so a leaked password gets nobody anywhere.
🗺️ Onsite Installation and Staff Training for Microsoft throughout Kolkata
Your senior salesman resigns, takes his handset with him, and three weeks later a customer asks about the mail he sent in April. On a personal webmail account that thread has simply gone. Inside a company tenant the mailbox stays yours - it can be converted to a shared mailbox, handed to a colleague, or held for an audit without paying for a licence forever. Companies across Kolkata come to us for exactly that, usually after it has already happened once.
One morning a customer forwards you an invoice on your letterhead, from your email address, with someone else's bank account printed on it. Nobody broke into your mailbox; they forged the sender, because your area never told the world who is allowed to send on its behalf. Fixing it is a configuration job rather than a buy, and it has to be done in the right order with the mail flow watched before enforcement goes on. We do this a lot for export and trading firms in Kolkata that have been caught out once.
⭐ Where Microsoft Microsoft 365 Licences, Setup & Email Migration Earns Its Keep around Sankrail
Asking staff for a code on the phone as well as the password is the most useful security change a small company can make, and also the one most likely to ruin a Monday. So we stage it - a pilot group first, staff told in advance about the one-time prompt on their phones, an emergency admin account kept aside, then everyone else (multi-factor authentication). Nobody in your Kolkata office gets locked out of their own mail on a working day. The point of the exercise is simple: knowing the password is no longer enough.
A field engineer leaves a laptop in an auto and by evening your entire quotation history is in a stranger's hands. Company laptops and phones enrolled properly can be wiped from a browser, and on a staff member's personal phone only the company half goes while photos and personal chats stay untouched (Intune). Setting this up takes an afternoon and is worth nothing at all if you start it after the phone is gone. We enrol devices during the rollout so the answer already exists on the day you need it.
Email Migration from a Hosting Company's Mailboxes to Microsoft 365 in Sankrail
A pump manufacturer on an industrial estate near Sankrail ran its own mail server in a cabinet next to the accounts room, and it went down whenever the generator took its time picking up. We audited the mailboxes, moved them across a Saturday night, and kept the old server delivering in parallel until the following weekend before switching it off. Their old machine stayed powered and readable for two more weeks, which nobody ended up needing but everybody was glad about. Nine months on, nobody in that office has restarted a mail server.
🛡️ SETUP STANDARDS AND HANDOVER
Where Our Work Ends and Microsoft's Begins
Admin credentials belong to you, not to us. At handover the global admin account, the recovery details and the emergency account are written down and passed to a director, in a sealed envelope or a password manager entry, whichever you prefer. If you later change partners, nothing has to be prised out of anyone's hands.
What a support arrangement with us usually covers:
▪Shared Drive Setup on SharePoint and OneDrive
▪Licence Supply, Renewals and GST Invoicing in Rupees
▪Fixing Mail That Lands in Spam (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
▪Single Sign-On and Second-Check Login (Entra ID, MFA)
*Disclaimer: Site visits, tenant configuration and training sessions are billed under our service agreement, separate from anything bundled with a Microsoft subscription.*
💡 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.
⚡ EMAIL MIGRATION DESK
Still on webmail, a hosting company's mailboxes or a server in the cupboard? We plan the move for offices in Sankrail around your working week, with the old system kept readable afterwards.
Check the storage numbers, archive choices and sharing controls before settling on a plan:
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.
🔹 DESKTOP OFFICE APPS
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote on up to five computers per person, along with five tablets and five phones.
🔹 MAILBOX SIZE
50GB each, which is several years of mail for most people, plus shared calendars the whole team can see.
🔹 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).
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.
🔹 EVERYTHING IN STANDARD
The same installed apps, 50GB mailboxes, cloud drive and Teams - nothing is traded away to get the security.
🔹 BILLING
Per user per month. Plenty of clients keep general staff on Standard and lift only directors, accounts and IT up to Premium.
🔹 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.
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.
🔹 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).
🔹 KEEPING MAIL FOR AUDITS
Plan 2 can freeze a mailbox so nothing is ever permanently deleted, and lets you search across mailboxes when a dispute or an audit lands (litigation hold and eDiscovery).
🔹 SETUP TIME
Area checks and the mail record changeover usually happen in one evening, followed by a settling day while DNS spreads.
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.
🔹 WORKING OFFLINE
Files still appear as a normal drive in File Explorer, keep working when the link drops, and catch up when it returns (OneDrive sync).
🔹 NOTHING LEFT BEHIND
File dates, folder paths and version history come across, and a comparison report at the end lets you see the counts line up.
🔹 WHAT WE DO
Map the folder tree you already have, agree who should see what, then copy it up in stages across nights and weekends.
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.
🔹 WHO IT'S FOR
Shift supervisors, drivers, warehouse hands, site engineers and trainees who need an inbox and a Teams message, nothing more.
🔹 WHY IT SAVES MONEY
Most firms find half their headcount never touches installed Office. Putting those people here and leaving desk staff on Standard cuts the monthly bill with nobody losing an address.
🔹 MIXING PLANS
One tenant happily runs Basic, Standard and Premium side by side, and a person moves up or down at the next billing cycle.
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.
🔹 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).
🔹 MEETING ROOMS
The conference room gets a camera, a screen and a console that joins the booked meeting with one tap, instead of ten minutes of cable hunting (Teams Rooms).
🔹 BEFORE YOU COMMIT
Call quality is an internet question, not a Microsoft one. We test the office link and the backup line around Sankrail before anyone signs anything.
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.
🔹 SETUP TIME
One working session to agree the policies, then devices enrolled in batches so the support calls stay manageable.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
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.
🔹 BILLING
Per named person, not per machine. One employee with a desktop, a laptop and a home PC still needs a single seat.
🔹 ROLLOUT
Installs can be pushed to machines over the network rather than walking desk to desk, once the package and update channel are agreed.
🔹 SHARED COMPUTERS
One licence can cover a person signing in at a machine others also use - a factory floor terminal, a training room, a shift desk (shared computer activation).
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.
🔹 SECURITY REVIEW
A standing check of admin accounts, odd sign-in alerts, forwarding rules nobody remembers creating, and how many staff still have no second login check.
🔹 BILLING
A fixed monthly fee against an agreed scope, in rupees with GST, kept separate from the licence charges themselves.
🔹 FIRST MONTH
We start with a health check of the tenant as it stands, so nothing inherited from the last vendor stays quietly broken.
✉️ Service & Maintenance Support
Need site visits, AMC contract estimates, or customized installation architecture? Connect with our technical desk directly.
🔍 Field Testing and What It Told Us for offices in Sankrail
Deleting a leaver's account to save a licence is the decision people regret most. Once the account goes, you have thirty days and then the mailbox is gone for good, along with whatever the auditor asks about next year. Remove the licence, change the mailbox to a shared one, and give access to whoever inherits that customer list. It costs nothing to keep and takes ten minutes to do properly.
The mailboxes your web hosting company throws in with the website are cheap and they do work. What they usually do not give you is a mailbox large enough to hold years of mail, proper calendar sharing, or an address book that everyone sees. They also share a mail server with hundreds of other customers, so if one of them sends spam your quotations get caught up in the same blacklist.
An on-premise mail server gives you complete control and no monthly bill, which is a real argument. It also gives you a machine that needs power backup, an operating system to patch, a backup someone must check and a person to restart it at eleven on a Sunday night. If your internet is genuinely unreliable and your mail is entirely internal, keeping it can still make sense; for most offices the maths stopped working years ago.
💡 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 EVALUATION & CHECKLIST
Turnkey Microsoft 365 Licences, Setup & Email Migration Metrics Checklist near Sankrail
🛠️ Workflow Setup
We start with an audit and a straight licence proposal: how many mailboxes, how large, who needs the installed apps, and what it will cost each year.
⚠️ Pitfalls to Avoid
Assuming Microsoft keeps a copy of permanently deleted mail catches people out most often; the service protects itself, not you from your own delete key.
🔌 Guidelines & Sizing
Track down the registrar login early, and if it belongs to a web designer who left in 2016, get the area transferred into the company's own account first.
📈 Upgrade Triggers
Customers start saying your quotation never arrived, and you find it in their junk folder three days later.
🛠️ area Verification and Mail Records for Businesses in Sankrail
Set the structure before people start using it, because once two hundred folders exist in the wrong shape, tidying them up becomes a project of its own.
📌 Site Survey & Planning Step by Step for growing offices
🔹Agree the folder and site structure on paper before a single file is uploaded, because rearranging two hundred gigabytes after the fact is somebody's entire week.
🔹Keep the old system live and delivering alongside the new one for the first few days, then leave it readable but switched off for a fortnight before anybody deletes a thing.
🔹Count and measure every mailbox before you promise a timeline; a twelve-year-old account with 40GB in it behaves nothing like a new joiner's, and that is what decides whether the move takes a night or a weekend.
📈 What the Numbers Mean for Your Office across Kolkata
File and collaboration work is planned on paper first. Departments get their own areas with permissions that match how the company actually works, personal working files go to each user's own space, and everything keeps a version history you can roll back through. Teams is set up by department with the files attached to the right conversation instead of scattered across handsets. Where an old file server is involved, path lengths and file names are checked before anything is copied.
Device and login work is what separates Premium from the cheaper plans. Company laptops and handsets are enrolled so they can be wiped remotely, personal phones are set up so only the company data is under our control, and disk encryption and update schedules are applied without anyone having to click through them. The phone prompt at login goes on in stages, with an emergency administrator account kept outside the policy. Old sign-in methods that attackers still target are switched off once we have confirmed nothing legitimate depends on them.
🏆 CORE PARAMETER🔹 If a phone is lostWork mail and files wiped from that handset remotely, personal photos left alone
🔹 Moving old email acrossFull history, folders and contacts brought over from Google Workspace, Zimbra, Rediff, cPanel or an in-house server
🔹 Meetings and callingVideo meetings for up to 300 people; desk-phone numbers through Teams as an add-on
🔹 Desktop Word and ExcelInstalled on Business Standard, Premium and the Apps plans; browser-only on Basic
🔹 How long setup takesA small tenant usable in a working day; mail cutover overnight, with a settling day for DNS
🔹 Mailbox size50GB per person on most plans, 100GB plus an expanding archive on the larger email plan
🔹 Keeping mail out of spamSPF, DKIM and DMARC records set up on your area as part of the job
Licensing Rules Microsoft Enforces That Surprise First-Time Buyers
Defender for Business, included with the Premium plan, is the protection layer. It checks links inside incoming mail at the moment somebody clicks them, opens unfamiliar attachments away from the machine before they reach the desk, and watches endpoints for the behaviour that precedes a ransomware run. Because it is part of the same subscription, there is no separate antivirus renewal to keep track of.
Intune handles the hardware. Company laptops and phones are enrolled once and can then be wiped remotely if lost, and on a staff member's personal handset the company mail and files can be removed on their own, leaving photos and personal chats alone. Disk encryption, update schedules and standard settings get applied centrally instead of being configured machine by machine.
✉️ SUPPORT DESK
Coordinate custom hardware configurations, AMC maintenance contracts, and site engineering visits directly with authorized integration desks.
🔧 How Issues Are Logged, Tracked and Closed throughout Kolkata
Type of Business
What We Set Up
Typical Time Needed
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
CA and Law Firms
A mailbox per partner, client folders only the right team can open, and leavers' mail kept for audits
About a week for a 25-person practice
Retail Chains and Franchise Networks
Store mailboxes under one company area, central control of who sees what, supplier mail in one place
One to two weeks depending on store count
📈 Everyday Responsiveness for Staff for offices in Sankrail
OneDrive sends only the changed part of a file, so a fat spreadsheet saves without a long wait.
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WHERE IT FALLS SHORT - WORTH READING FIRST
✓Ransomware and virus detection extend to the laptops themselves, not just to what arrives by mail (Defender for Business).
—Web-only apps come with the cheapest plan - installed Word and Excel need the mid-tier licence at minimum.
✓Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint install properly on up to five devices per person, not just in a browser.
—Staff need a short walkthrough, or they will carry on sending files over WhatsApp and never open Teams at all.
✓Somebody forgetting their password at 8am can reset it themselves instead of ringing around for help (self-service reset).
—Left alone, a tenant drifts within a year - old accounts stay live, guest access piles up, policies fall out of date.
✓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).
—Business Premium expects Windows 10 or 11 Pro; a Home edition machine will not accept the management policies.
✓Two people editing the same document merge their changes instead of creating final_final_v3.xlsx.
—Litigation hold and case-based search do come with Business Premium (eDiscovery Standard); it is the advanced compliance tooling - custodian tracking, analytics, predictive coding - that only the top enterprise plan carries.
💡 Engineering Fact: During a mail move the internet learns your new destination only as fast as your DNS allows. Lower the time-to-live value a day early and the switch takes minutes instead of dragging on all night (MX record TTL).
⚡ SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE
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Q. Can we stop staff from mailing customer lists to their personal address?
Largely yes, using rules that watch outgoing mail and files on the shared drive for the patterns you care about, such as PAN details, bank account numbers or a document marked confidential (data loss prevention). When someone tries to send a price list or a customer database to an outside personal address, the message can be blocked outright, or allowed through with a warning and a record for management to see. Chat and channel messages inside Teams can be watched the same way, but that needs one of the larger enterprise licences rather than Business Premium. Start narrow, because a rule that catches too much gets switched off within a week, and remember that nothing here stops somebody photographing a screen.
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. Which plan do we actually need - Basic, Standard or Premium?
It comes down to two questions: does the person need Word and Excel installed on their machine, and how much control do you want over their device and their login. Business Basic covers company email, Teams and browser versions of the apps, which suits a shop floor or a sales team that lives on a phone. Business Standard adds the installed desktop apps that accounting and admin staff really do need. Business Premium adds the security layer on top, including full control of company laptops and tighter rules about where people may sign in from, and it costs noticeably more per person every month, so it is worth assigning it deliberately rather than to everybody by default.
Q. Who fixes it if something breaks after the setup is done?
We do, and you reach a named engineer at our Kolkata desk rather than a ticket queue in another time zone. Every setup includes a settling-in period where we stay close, because the first week is when an odd calendar permission or a stubborn phone profile shows up. After that, most clients around Kolkata keep a monthly support arrangement covering joiners, leavers, licence changes and everyday Outlook and Teams trouble, and that is a recurring fee rather than free aftercare, which we say plainly before you sign. If you prefer to run day-to-day admin in-house, we hand over the admin accounts and written notes and stay available for the difficult ones.
Q. Can we finally switch off the old file server sitting in the corner?
In most offices yes, though seldom on day one. We map the existing shared folders onto SharePoint and OneDrive, keep the department structure people already recognise, and set permissions so accounts cannot browse HR folders and the other way round. Files that a program holds open, such as a Tally data folder, a design library or a database, are usually better left on a local server or a NAS, because live database files and cloud sync do not get along. You gain access from home or a customer site without fiddling with a VPN, but you still need a backup, because the cloud copy is not one.
💡 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.
🔄 THE REST OF OUR IT WORK
What else we look after for offices in and around Sankrail
Ask us about door access control if you want the same care taken over who walks in as over who logs in.
🗺️ Where We Work and How Fast We Reach You near Sankrail
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