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Practical pieces on Microsoft 365, security, infrastructure, automation and AI. From client projects, not from marketing.

Microsoft 365 audit: a light scan checks the building blocks of a tenant, next to it an overview with bars and highlighted licences
Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 audit: what reviewing your tenant and licences delivers

Around 500 checks in twelve areas: what a Microsoft 365 audit covers, which findings come up almost every time, what it does for your licences and why licences and support belong in one pair of hands.

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Microsoft 365 price increase: three licence tiers as pedestals, the two smaller ones have grown, the gap to the highest tier with a shield has become smaller
Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 price increase: Business Premium now costs only €7.27 more than Standard

Business Basic and Business Standard have cost more since 1 July 2026, Business Premium has not. Why the new price only applies from your renewal, what Premium includes for €7.27 more and why the increase is an opportunity to review your licences and switch.

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Emails pass through a filter gate with a shield into the office, suspicious messages with warning signs, one with a crown posing as the boss, end up in a quarantine box, and a copy of every email goes to the archive
IT security

Email security with Hornetsecurity – and when Business Premium fits better

Why I usually add Hornetsecurity for email protection when clients use Business Standard, how the switch works, and when I recommend Business Premium instead.

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A clubhouse beneath a cloud, linked to laptops and smartphones in different places, in front of it card boxes with member cards and an emergency key in a glass case
Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 for nonprofits: free licences, the application and secure admin access

Up to 300 free Business Basic licences and up to 75 % off Business Premium: how the Microsoft application works, how I set up accounts and emergency access for associations, and why IT belongs in the budget early.

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Floor plan of a practice with reception, treatment room, office, server room and a waiting area with Wi-Fi, all connected through a central firewall, with backups passing through a second stage into a data centre
IT security

IT for medical practices: network, backup and the KBV guideline

What the KBV's IT security guideline requires of practices, where the TI service provider's job ends, and how I set up the practice network and backup.

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A new office being set up: a key and a domain come first, then laptops and smartphones with a shield connect to the cloud one after another, while shelves and boxes wait in the background
In practice

IT for a new company: what must work on day one

What a new company's IT needs on the first working day, what can wait, which early decisions become expensive later and what to budget for laptops, licences and a domain.

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An IT room with a ticket board, workstation and server rack, linked by a bridge to a second workstation with a toolbox and a cloud, with a shared, open documentation between them
In practice

Reinforcing in-house IT: complement, not replacement

When in-house IT needs external reinforcement, how I share the work with the team, and why responsibilities and access rights have to be settled from the start.

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Two laptops showing a warning sign, a third being updated overnight, followed by three laptops with a new start screen
Microsoft 365

Windows 10 after end of support: why I replace rather than extend

Since October 2025 Windows 10 only gets security updates with ESU, and the first ESU year for businesses ends on 13 October 2026. What applies now, why I replace old computers and how the upgrade to Windows 11 works.

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A scale weighs a shield, a computer and a server against a stack of coins, below it three bases holding clocks, a flat block and an open box
In practice

What does IT support cost? Flat fee, time spent or prepaid hours

How a flat fee for IT support comes about, what it includes, why I rarely use prepaid hours and how you can tell whether you are paying too much or too little for your IT.

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