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Date published

May 2025

The market for MSPs is increasingly saturated, and with evolving customer needs, leveraging data to make smart decisions is crucial. Enter Microsoft 365 Lighthouse – the game-changing tool that empowers MSPs to optimise operations, achieve sustainable growth, and strengthen customer relationships.

Enhanced Security and Productivity with Microsoft 365 Business Premium

When MSPs pair Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, they get a powerful combination that significantly boosts security, productivity, and efficiency. Microsoft 365 Business Premium offers advanced security and management features, ensuring end customer data and devices are protected while maintaining seamless access to essential applications.

Standardise Security Policies

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse provides standard tenant configurations that deploy core security policies and compliance standards, enabling MSPs to keep users, devices, apps, and data secure. It also helps MSPs manage multiple customer tenants at once, ensuring consistent policies across all users and devices. Additionally, Microsoft 365 Lighthouse leverages AI to recommend improvements to end-customers’ security posture, reducing the risk of security threats and breaches.

Unparalleled Insights into License Usage and Device Management

Combining Microsoft 365 Lighthouse with Microsoft 365 Business Premium delivers unparalleled insights into end-customer license usage, security, and device management. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse offers AI-powered recommendations for optimising tenant configurations, reducing the time and effort required for initial setup. It also simplifies onboarding by providing step-by-step guidance for setting up new tenants, ensuring a smooth transition for customers. This enables MSPs to offer expert guidance to customers, proactively addressing their needs and ensuring they maximise their technology investments.

Boost Operational Efficiency

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse also boosts operational efficiency with robust reporting, analytics, and usage tracking. With Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, MSPs can scale the management of their customers, focus on what’s most important, quickly find and investigate risks, and take action to get their customers to a healthy and secure state, all at no extra cost. This reduces administrative work and supports proactive account management for MSPs, allowing them to manage renewals, reduce client churn, and uncover cross-sell and upsell opportunities.

By integrating Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, MSPs can ensure a secure, efficient, and productive environment for end-customers, helping them to achieve their business goals with confidence.

The Evolving MSP Market

End customers now expect transparency, predictive engagement and strategic advice. Traditional account management is becoming outdated; data-driven engagement is the new norm. By integrating Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, MSPs can secure their competitive edge and future-proof operations. MSPs that adopt Microsoft 365 Lighthouse will gain a significant advantage, using the platform to seize new opportunities, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth.

The need for data-driven decision-making has never been greater. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse provides the insights and analytics needed to thrive in today’s competitive market. Now is the time for MSPs to embrace innovation, adopt Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and unlock their business’ full potential.