Service · Software and licences

IT operations tools

For example, a one-person IT team at an 80-employee company learns about an outage when someone in finance posts on Teams that “nothing works”. The right tooling turns firefighting into scheduled work: you can see what hardware and software you own, what shape it is in, and where something is about to fail, before users spot it.

Monitoring
you hear first, not users
Asset list
that updates itself
Patches
from a single console
Open source
where it does the job

Included in this service

A firm may already own more tooling inside its Microsoft 365 plan than it uses. Commercial platforms pay off once you manage a large number of endpoints or face formal reporting obligations.

Talk the scope through with an engineer

Monitoring

Continuous checks that every server, firewall and switch answers, that key services run, that disks have room and that no certificate is close to lapsing. Depending on size we use Zabbix, PRTG or a commercial RMM.

Asset discovery

Laptops, phones and the programs on them get recorded without manual effort, via Intune or a network scanner like Lansweeper. For public bodies it also helps with the KRI interoperability requirements.

Licence reconciliation

We line up what is actually installed against your invoices. Mismatches go both ways: software used without a licence, and licences nobody uses.

Remote assistance

Connecting to an employee's screen via Quick Assist or an RMM tool, with every session recorded: who, when and on which machine.

Patching

Security fixes for Windows and popular apps deployed from the centre, for example with Intune, in waves: a few test machines first, then everyone else.

Alerts

Thresholds and recipients arranged so that notifications get read rather than piling up in a “Monitoring” folder with 14,000 unread messages.

How we work together

The schedule depends on the number of devices and sites, and is agreed at the start. Agents are rolled out and configured remotely, with nobody walking from desk to desk.

01

Discovery

Device and site counts, licences you already hold, and what hurts most right now.

02

Choice

Open source or commercial, whichever suits your size and obligations. You buy from the vendor or a partner, working from our exact specification.

03

Rollout

We deploy the agents, register every device, write the rules and alert routes, and a written record of what is configured where.

04

Tuning

Over the first weeks we adjust thresholds until false alarms fade and only the ones needing action remain.

An alerting system full of false positives is worse than silence. Within a fortnight the admin stops opening alerts and the genuine incident disappears in the noise. So we calibrate every limit to your own machines rather than trusting the out-of-the-box values.

Questions and answers

In smaller firms, open source tools combined with features already in your Microsoft 365 plan are often enough. Commercial products are justified when you need ready-made reports for the board or an auditor, vendor support, or several hundred workstations across multiple branches.

Manual lists go stale within days. A scanner reports what is really out there: system versions, machines where patches did not apply, even the laptop with an unauthorised torrent client. And it hands you the numbers for any licence true-up.

Server and network device availability, free disk space, the result of last night's backup, and expiry dates for certificates and domains. Those five checks catch many of the typical failures you would otherwise hear about from irritated colleagues.

It can be, if organised properly. The employee sees and accepts the connection, sessions are logged and only named people have access. We describe this in a procedure you can attach to your data protection documentation and your remote working policy. The final assessment is for your data protection officer.

Let us pick the right tools for your IT

Give us a picture of your estate and the problems that keep coming back. Our proposal starts from no-cost tools and adds paid ones only where needed.

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