Rapid Start: Remote Work — Microsoft 365 Setup in 2 Weeks

A readiness review of your tenant and licenses; a decision record you approve; a collaboration baseline across Teams meeting settings, Outlook mobile access, OneDrive sync with Known Folder Move, and one shared Teams team or SharePoint site; a security baseline matched to your license tier (MFA for all users, sharing defaults, and where licensed a baseline Conditional Access policy and iOS/Android app protection policies); a pilot validation with users you nominate; and an administrator handoff pack with a one-page end-user quick-start guide. All of it within 2 weeks for the fixed price on this page.

$1,750, fixed, for one Microsoft 365 tenant and the baseline described on this page. The price is quoted in writing before work begins and you pay after you approve delivery. Microsoft licenses, devices and connectivity are billed by their vendors. Anything outside the baseline — migrations, device management, a full Conditional Access design, rollout to every user — is quoted separately in writing, and no out-of-scope work happens without your approval.

2 weeks: readiness and the collaboration baseline in week 1, the security baseline, pilot validation and handoff in week 2. That assumes the decision record is approved within two business days of kickoff, our administrator access is ready on day 1, and pilot users are available for their validation sessions. Client-side delays move the completion date rather than the scope.

Any plan that gives the users in scope Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint Online and the Office apps — Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard or Business Premium with Teams, or Microsoft 365 E3/E5 with Teams. The collaboration baseline works on all of them. The security baseline depends on your Microsoft Entra ID tier: security defaults on any plan; Conditional Access and app protection policies only where Microsoft Entra ID P1 and Intune are included, as in Business Premium and E3/E5. We do not require you to upgrade — we configure what your current licenses support and tell you what an upgrade would add.

Yes — enforcement is tenant-wide, because a remote workforce signing in with passwords alone is the risk this service most needs to close. On plans without Microsoft Entra ID P1 we enable security defaults; every user is then required to register for MFA at their next sign-in — Microsoft removed the former 14-day skip window from security defaults in 2025, which is why we give you the announcement wording before enforcement day. On plans with P1 we create a baseline Conditional Access policy that requires MFA and blocks legacy authentication. We register the pilot users ourselves; a company-wide registration campaign with per-user follow-up is the separate Enable MFA for All Users service.

Yes, and the decision record fixes how. On Business Premium or E3/E5 we apply Intune app protection policies to Outlook, Teams and OneDrive on personal iPhones and Android phones: a PIN on the work apps, encrypted data, and blocks on copying or saving work data into personal apps — without enrolling or controlling the device. On plans without Intune, personal phones get Outlook mobile with MFA and the mobile access controls Exchange Online includes, and we document what an upgrade would add. Personal computers get OneDrive sync and the Office apps; full device management, for company-owned or personal devices, is a separate Intune service.

Not on its own. This rapid start configures a tenant whose mail already lives in Exchange Online; it sets up the shared document location and OneDrive sync but does not move existing content. Migrate first — Cutover Exchange Online Migration for mail, Company Document Migration to SharePoint Online or Teams, or Box, Dropbox & Google Drive to OneDrive Document Migration for files — and run Rapid Start: Remote Work immediately after. We can sequence both in one plan.

No. Teams meetings, chat and internal calling between Teams users are included; calling to and from regular phone numbers needs Teams Phone licensing, numbers and call routing, which is the separate Microsoft Teams Phone System Setup service. The two combine well — many organizations run them back to back.

It fits organizations on a single Microsoft 365 tenant with mail already in Exchange Online, that need people productive from home or on the road quickly and want the configuration done right the first time. Choose something else if you need a full device management foundation (Microsoft Intune Initial Setup), a complete Conditional Access design (Conditional Access Policy Implementation), Secure Score-driven hardening (Microsoft 365 Security 30 Days Service), or a structured Teams adoption program with training (Microsoft Teams Adoption Training & Pilot). Each of those builds on what this rapid start leaves in place.

Scope and depth. Rapid Start: Remote Work is a 2-week, fixed-price baseline that touches every workload a remote employee uses and turns on the security controls your licenses already include — no device enrollment, no policy library. Microsoft Intune Initial Setup is an 8-week foundation that enrolls and governs company-owned Windows devices with a full security baseline. Microsoft 365 Security 30 Days Service is a 30-day tenant hardening engagement driven by Secure Score. Start here if the immediate problem is people who cannot work from home well; move to those when the problem becomes managing the estate.

The readiness snapshot, the approved decision record, the pilot validation record, the administrator handoff pack (as-configured settings, open items, next steps) and the one-page end-user quick-start guide, delivered in a handoff session — and you approve delivery before invoicing. Your administrators then roll the quick-start out to the rest of the company. Natural next steps, each quoted separately: Enable MFA for All Users for a managed registration campaign, an Intune device-management foundation, a complete Conditional Access design, or the Remote Support Help Desk Service if you would rather we handle user questions.

Mike Mackey, IT Partner's founder, is the service owner. IT Partner has been a Microsoft partner since 2006 and has itself operated as a fully virtual company since COVID, with the team distributed across the US and Europe — the working setup described on this page is the one we use.