M365 & Azure Architecture

Good cloud outcomes start above the tenant. We run enterprise architecture engagements that give agencies an honest current-state assessment, a target-state design worth the name, and a sequenced roadmap that survives budget cycles: what moves, in what order, with which dependencies and risks named up front.

Because our architects also implement, the roadmaps are buildable. Strategy documents that no engineer can execute are how cloud programs stall; ours are written by people who will be accountable for the delivery that follows.

We design and implement the Azure platform underneath your workloads: landing zones with sensible subscription and management group structure, hub-and-spoke networking, and governance through policy rather than goodwill. Identity is treated as the security perimeter it now is, with Entra ID architecture, Conditional Access design, privileged access separation and break-glass procedures mapped to the controls your assessors expect.

Across the IaaS and PaaS stack we bring the same discipline: network segmentation and private endpoints, encryption and key management, monitoring and cost governance. The result is a platform where deploying the next workload is routine instead of a negotiation.

We design, implement and remediate M365 tenants end to end: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Teams, including Teams telephony and calling architecture. Tenant-level design decisions on identity, sharing, guest access and service configuration are made deliberately and documented, aligned to the ASD Blueprint, the ISM and the PSPF.

Migrations and consolidations are part of the practice: mailbox and content moves, tenant-to-tenant consolidations after machinery-of-government changes, and the governance to keep the new environment the way it was designed rather than the way it drifted.

We take agencies from legacy fleets to modern management: Intune as the MDM for corporate and BYO devices, Entra ID joined endpoints, Windows Autopilot provisioning and Windows Hello for Business. The fleet ends up enrolled, encrypted, patched and provable, with policy as the source of truth instead of hand-built images.

Where the desktop itself should be virtual, we deliver Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365: contractor access, secure enclaves, surge capacity or a full desktop-as-a-service operating model, designed for both user experience and cost, because a badly designed AVD estate is an expensive one.

Purview is where governance meets daily work, and it is one of our deepest practices. We design and deploy sensitivity labels that carry the PSPF's protective markings into the tenant, so OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL: Sensitive are enforced by the platform rather than remembered by staff. Auto-labelling, label policies and encryption behaviour are tuned so protection is real without making the tenant unusable.

Around the labels we build the rest of the information governance stack: data loss prevention policies tuned to genuine workflows, records management and retention that satisfy the Archives Act without drowning the storage bill, and eDiscovery and legal hold configured so the agency can answer for its information when asked. This same foundation is what makes AI adoption safe: a labelled, governed tenant is one where Copilot can be governed rather than feared.