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Market research shows that nearly 45% of Australian businesses are still using Windows 10.* With the Windows 10 end-of-support deadline just months away, transitioning customers Windows 11 is now a top priority for many partners that don’t want their customers to be left unprotected. For customers, the key focus is ensuring a seamless transition that minimises business disruption.
Join us on the 20th of May at 11am – 12pm for a fireside chat with our expert team to discuss tips and tricks about how to smoothly transition customers from Windows 10 – 11.
Our subject matter experts will discuss topics such as:
- Why customers need to upgrade to Windows 11
- The common migration challenges, addressing risks and ensuring a secure end state
- Insourcing vs outsourcing Device management and device security
- Automating repetitive tasks like Identity, Group management, M365 configurations and licence rationalisation
- Managing configuration drift in security posture with M365 resources and tenants
- Cyber security Managed Detection & Response with Native M365 multitenancy or building your own MDR service
About the vendors
Devicie
Devicie is an Intune automation platform that simplifies and accelerates Intune deployment, configuration and maintenance at scale. By reducing these manual tasks, it allows MSPs to reallocate resources, allowing them to focus on other higher value activities. With increased operational efficiency, MSPs can complete Intune projects in a matter of days and scale profitably with technology instead of labor.
Devicie provides MSPs with a multi-tenant portal, that provides visibility of their customers managed fleet, including items like Windows 11 readiness. It features a wide range of policy sets for configuration for Windows and MacOS, as well as corporate and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for mobile devices, alongside secure, but productive baselines including the Essential 8, CIS and more. Devicie also provides policy drift remediation to ensure MSP’s tenants are always in a ‘known good state’, along with device patching and application management to reduce breach risk.
Contraforce
ContraForce transforms how managed security services are delivered by allowing MSPs to jumpstart a new line of business, improve their margins and deliver better client outcomes.
The ContraForce Security Service Delivery Platform (SSDP) is specially built for MSPs. It decouples security services from the underlying software used to provide them and employs automation to improve service delivery. The platform simplifies complex security operations, enabling MSPs to accelerate security practice builds.
CoreView
CoreView is a comprehensive Microsoft 365 management platform built by MSPs, for MSPs. Turn your customers into lifetime partners with customised solutions. Using CoreView, MSPs can:
- Identify compliance and security gaps
- Supercharge Productivity & Automate Tasks
- Auto-Configure New Tenants in a Click
- Effortlessly Oversee & Control Multi-Tenant Environments
- Deliver Best Practice M365 Security for Customers
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