Consulting

Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365 consulting for teams that need a specialist in the room.

The articles on this site are the reference material. The consulting is the direct engagement — tenant assessments, Conditional Access rollouts, identity governance implementation, and incident support for organisations running Microsoft identity in production.

Services

Five ways to work together, in rough order of engagement size.

Tenant assessment

From CAD $6,500

A structured review of your Microsoft Entra tenant with a written findings report.

Two-week engagement. I audit Conditional Access, PIM configuration, authentication methods, sign-in log signals, guest and B2B posture, and hybrid identity health. You get a written report with prioritised findings, risk ratings, and a remediation roadmap you can execute against.

Fit: You know your Entra posture drifted somewhere over the last few years and you want an outside view before something breaks.

Conditional Access & MFA rollout

CAD $12,000 – $35,000

Design and implement a full Conditional Access policy set from scratch or from a legacy configuration.

Four to eight week project depending on tenant size. Covers policy design, ring-based rollout planning, phishing-resistant Authentication Strengths, break-glass account hardening, and monitoring. Includes documentation and a runbook for future changes.

Fit: You're on per-user MFA or Security Defaults and need to move to a proper Conditional Access model without locking anyone out.

Identity governance implementation

CAD $20,000 – $75,000

PIM, Entitlement Management, Access Reviews, and Access Packages deployed as a working system.

Six to twelve week project depending on the number of roles, resources, and stakeholder teams. Covers PIM configuration for privileged roles, Entitlement Management catalog and access package design, Access Review scheduling, and monitoring KQL for each.

Fit: You have Entra ID Governance licenses and haven't operationalised them yet, or the initial rollout stalled.

Incident support

CAD $275 / hour

Hourly help for specific incidents your team can't crack.

Same-day availability for active incidents. Common shapes: unexplained Conditional Access blocks, sign-in log forensics, PRT and token issues, hybrid identity replication failures, mail flow authentication problems, unexpected policy behaviour after a Microsoft change.

Fit: You have a ticket that's been open for two weeks and nobody on your team has time to dig into it properly.

Advisory retainer

From CAD $2,500 / month

A monthly retainer for teams that want ongoing access without one-off engagements.

Monthly retainer with a defined block of hours. Use them for architecture questions, design reviews, quarterly tenant health checks, or on-demand access when Microsoft ships something new that affects your environment. Unused hours don't roll over; predictable spend.

Fit: You have an internal team that can execute but wants a specialist to talk through architecture decisions and validate designs.

How I work

Three engagement models. The right one depends on the shape of the work rather than the size of your organisation.

Hourly

For incident support and short investigations. Billed weekly against actual hours.

Fixed-scope project

For assessments and rollouts. Scope, deliverables, and price agreed up front. Milestone-based invoicing.

Monthly advisory retainer

For teams that want ongoing access. Defined hours per month, prepaid, invoiced monthly.

Rates shown above are indicative ranges in Canadian dollars, exclusive of GST/HST. Final quotes are confirmed in writing after an initial scoping call. All engagements are covered by a mutual NDA before any tenant details are shared. Non-profit, education, and public-sector discounts available on request.

Who I typically work with

  • Microsoft 365 and Azure admins in mid-market and enterprise organisations
  • MSPs and IT consultancies serving Microsoft-heavy clients
  • Security teams inheriting a tenant they didn't originally build
  • Internal identity teams running their first Conditional Access or IGA rollout

Independence and editorial

Consulting work is separate from what gets published on this site. The articles are not vendor-sponsored, and consulting engagements never determine what gets written about. Client tenant details are covered by NDA and never appear in published content. The relevant details are in the editorial policy and the privacy policy.

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