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Category: In practice

Comparisons and decision aids from client projects, such as which device management suits which company.

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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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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An office with server rack, network and workstations, next to it keys and a ticked-off documentation lie ready at a new workstation
In practice

Changing your IT provider, even without a handover

What to secure before you change IT provider: complete documentation, all the access, and a Microsoft 365 tenant that belongs to your company.

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Device management (MDM) in business: laptops, tablets and smartphones managed centrally from one console
In practice

Device management in business: why an MDM starts to make sense at around ten devices

What device management changes for employees, IT and management, what it costs, who Intune, Mosyle, Jamf and Iru are meant for, and how a migration realistically runs.

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