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Service coverage

Three service areas with explicit boundaries.

Use this catalog to identify the recurring work you need covered, the decisions your practice retains, and the work that requires separate scope.

Service desk

The daily support lane.

Work it can organize

Remote request intake, common account and access assistance, Microsoft 365 user support within scope, issue triage, and contextual escalation.

What the partner defines

Client-facing identity, intake channel, supported users and applications, approval limits, coverage window, and escalation owner.

What remains separate

On-site activity, after-hours coverage, specialized applications, project delivery, procurement, and commitments not written into the agreement.

Microsoft 365

Stewardship, not silent transformation.

Work it can organize

User, group, and license routines; agreed configuration hygiene; operational review; exception visibility; and approval routing for material changes.

What the partner defines

Tenant group, administrative boundary, approved baseline, decision owners, change path, and the service band supporting that cadence.

What remains separate

Migrations, tenant redesigns, compliance attestations, large remediation programs, and specialist security projects.

Managed cadence

Repeatable baseline work.

Work it can organize

Agreed endpoint routines, security-baseline checks, exception tracking, review cadence, and a priority path where explicitly included.

What the partner defines

Tooling, endpoint population, baseline, review frequency, approval path, exception handling, and client-facing reporting context.

What remains separate

No always-on SOC, universal security monitoring, unlimited remediation, forensics, or guarantee of an incident-free environment is claimed.

Common exclusions

A professional catalog says what it does not silently contain.

Projects, migrations, redesigns, on-site work, after-hours coverage, procurement, hardware, third-party subscriptions, and specialist investigations can be valuable. They are not automatically bundled into the per-user reference bands.

The partner briefing should begin with one lane and its edge, not a request to absorb every unknown.

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