Microsoft 365 licensing takes ten minutes to buy. Getting it configured securely, migrated cleanly, and supported properly is where most Wisconsin SMBs get stuck. We’re a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and Indirect Reseller, licensing, migration, security hardening, and day-to-day support from a Madison-area team that knows your environment.
Microsoft announced on December 5, 2025 that most Business plans increase effective July 1, 2026. Basic moves from $6 to $7/user/mo (+17%). Standard moves from $12.50 to $14/user/mo (+12%). Business Premium holds at $22/user/mo. If your renewal or new purchase signs before July 1, you lock in current rates for the full term. Authoritative reference: Microsoft 365 Business plan comparison. We’ll walk you through the timing tradeoff during a quote call.
Licensing is the easy part. Secure configuration, clean migration, and proper management is where most self-serve and direct-to-Microsoft buyers end up exposed.
The apps your team already knows, plus the cloud storage, collaboration, and security infrastructure to run a modern business: business email on your domain, full Office apps across desktop/web/mobile, Teams chat & meetings, 1 TB OneDrive per user, plus SharePoint team sites with version history and external-sharing governance.
Three plans designed for businesses up to 300 users. Start where you need to, upgrade individual users later. Prices shown are Microsoft list rates; annual commitment. See Microsoft’s official plan comparison for the full feature matrix.
Web and mobile apps with hosted email and cloud storage. Right for light users and shared devices.
Everything in Basic, plus full desktop Office apps and webinar hosting. The right default for most SMB knowledge workers.
Everything in Standard, plus enterprise-grade security and device management. Required for HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, PCI DSS, and compliance-heavy workloads, pairs naturally with our cybersecurity & compliance services.
Need Enterprise E3/E5, F3, A-series, or nonprofit pricing? Tell us your scope, we license the full Microsoft portfolio as an Indirect Reseller.
AI assistance inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, grounded in your own M365 content via Microsoft Graph. Launched December 2025 and priced specifically for SMBs up to 300 users. Reference: Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business.
Promotional annual rate through June 30, 2026. Standard rate becomes $21/user/mo on July 1, 2026. Requires an eligible Business Basic, Standard, or Premium license underneath. Supports up to 300 seats per tenant.
For organizations on Microsoft 365 E3 or E5. Same in-app Copilot experience but no 300-seat cap, with enterprise-grade governance hooks. Available if you outgrow the Business SKU ceiling.
Pricing reflects Microsoft list rates as of April 2026. We pilot Copilot with a single department before tenant-wide rollout, licenses without training is just an expense.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium covers a lot, but compliance-regulated environments typically need independent backup, archiving, and policy-based encryption. We resell the following through our Intermedia Intelligent Communication partnership, production-grade SKUs, not white-labeled wrappers. Pricing depends on bundle, term length, and seat count, and is confirmed in writing on every quote.
Inbound and outbound filtering, anti-phishing, anti-impersonation, link rewriting, attachment sandboxing. Sits in front of your M365 mail flow as a separate enforcement layer, useful when Defender for Office 365 isn’t included in your plan or you want an independent second control.
Independent, vendor-segregated backup of Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Microsoft’s retention is not backup, this protects against insider deletion, account takeover, ransomware reaching synced content, and accidental permanent deletion past retention windows.
Tamper-resistant archive for compliance retention, legal hold, and e-discovery. Encrypted storage with fast search across historical email, commonly required for HIPAA, financial, and legal retention obligations beyond what M365’s native retention covers.
Policy-based encryption for outbound mail containing PHI, PCI, or other regulated content. Templates and rules for HIPAA, financial, and legal workflows, recipients open via a secure portal without needing matching encryption software.
Many regulated environments use three of the four (Protection + Backup + Encryption) as a baseline. Final pricing depends on bundle and seat count and is confirmed in writing before any commitment.
Staged migration with validation, cutover timed to your lowest-traffic window, and straggler-mail capture. No lost email, no calendar corruption, no Monday-morning surprise.
Audit current mail system, licensing, and DNS. Confirm scope, schedule cutover, pre-create accounts with secure baseline.
Export mailboxes, calendars, contacts, and files. Seed data into M365 with pre-configured user profiles and sharing policies.
Update DNS (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, autodiscover). Execute cutover off-hours. Run delta sync to capture mail in flight.
Verify delivery end-to-end, test mobile and desktop sign-in, confirm sharing controls. Push quick-start guide to every user.
Monthly and annual estimates for Microsoft list pricing plus optional Copilot Business, with current rates and post-July-2026 pricing side-by-side. Intermedia security add-ons are quoted separately based on bundle and seat count.
Estimates show Microsoft list pricing only. Actual pricing depends on reseller rate, term length, and add-on scope. Official quote provided in writing before any commitment.
We’re a Madison-area Microsoft AI Cloud Partner. When something breaks, you reach a local engineer who knows your tenant, not a global ticket queue. Our Madison-area service footprint covers nine counties across south-central Wisconsin.
MFA, conditional access, and sharing policies configured before users log in, not left at Microsoft’s defaults.
Mixed Basic / Standard / Premium per role, so you pay for what each user actually uses, not a uniform over-license.
Staged cutover, validation, and user onboarding. We handle MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and straggler mail.
One Wisconsin team handles licensing, configuration, migration, security, and day-to-day support. No vendor finger-pointing.
Business Premium is typically required for regulated workflows. We configure the controls, gather the evidence, and keep it compliant day-to-day. For HIPAA-regulated environments, Microsoft signs a Business Associate Agreement, see Microsoft’s HIPAA / HITECH compliance documentation.
When Microsoft 365 is delivered under a Managed IT agreement, day-to-day support comes with the SLA Credit Guarantee: 5% automatic monthly credit if we miss a published response target. Same-day response on critical issues. Licensing stays on its own billing; support rolls into the managed agreement.
Microsoft announced on December 5, 2025 that Business Basic rises from $6 to $7/user/mo (+17%), Business Standard from $12.50 to $14/user/mo (+12%), and Business Premium holds at $22/user/mo (unchanged). Copilot Business moves from the $18/user/mo promotional rate to $21/user/mo standard. Renewals and new annual commitments signed before July 1, 2026 lock in current rates for the full term, which, for 12-month contracts, is a meaningful difference worth timing deliberately.
Basic: Web/mobile Office apps, hosted email, Teams, 1 TB OneDrive. Standard: Adds desktop Office apps and webinars, the right default for most knowledge workers. Premium: Adds Defender for Office 365, Defender for Business (endpoint), Intune device management, conditional access, and Data Loss Prevention. Premium is typically required for HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and PCI-regulated environments. Mixed licensing per role is common and cost-effective.
Yes, this is one of our most common migrations. We move email, calendars, contacts, Drive files into OneDrive/SharePoint, and convert Google Groups to Microsoft 365 Groups. Users keep their email addresses (we update MX to M365), calendar history is preserved, and we publish a Google-to-Microsoft quick-start guide before cutover.
Most SMB migrations run 1–2 weeks from kickoff to cutover. Larger environments, complex hybrid setups, or compliance-heavy configurations extend to 3–4 weeks. We schedule cutover during low-traffic windows, typically Friday evening or Saturday, with validation and straggler-mail capture running through the weekend so Monday morning is a non-event.
Copilot Business (the SMB SKU) requires Business Basic, Standard, Apps for Business, or Business Premium underneath, up to 300 seats per tenant. Copilot for Enterprise ($30/user/mo) requires Microsoft 365 E3 or E5. Both deliver the same in-app Copilot experience in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. We pilot Copilot with one department before tenant-wide rollout, a license without training is just an expense.
Yes. Microsoft’s retention policies are retention, not backup. They don’t protect against insider deletion, account takeover, ransomware that reaches synced OneDrive content, or accidental permanent deletion past retention. An independent, vendor-segregated backup of Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams is a standard part of our compliance-aware deployments, required by many cyber-insurance policies.
Yes, and we recommend it. Basic for light users (shared floor devices, part-time staff, break-fix-level admin access). Standard for most knowledge workers. Premium for executives, anyone touching PHI or PCI data, and anyone with a company-managed laptop. We build the mix during discovery and true it up quarterly.
Yes. We are a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and Indirect Reseller, licensing, deploying, and supporting the full Business, Enterprise, and nonprofit portfolio. As an Indirect Reseller, licenses flow through a Microsoft-authorized distributor, so you get standard commercial terms with local support attached.
Tell us about your team, current email platform, and any compliance scope. We’ll respond with a tailored recommendation and pricing, usually within one business day.