Microsoft 365 E7: When it makes sense for MSPs and their SMB customers and when it doesn’t
Microsoft is no longer treating AI as a standalone add-on. With Microsoft 365 E7, they’re making a much bigger bet: that AI, security and identity should be bought, governed and scaled as one platform. That may sound like the natural next step, but for most SMBs, it’s not. The real issue is not what E7 includes. It’s whether SMB customers are actually ready […]
Are your MSP contracts keeping up with your business?
If you asked most MSP owners whether their contracts are up to date, the honest answer would probably be: not entirely. The agreements get written, signed and filed away, and then the business keeps moving. New services get added. Clients get more complex. Regulations shift. But the contracts, more often than not, stay as-is. That gap between what your agreements […]
Moving left of boom: A guide to the NIST Identify and Protect pillars
In the world of cybersecurity risk reduction, there’s a concept that we call “the boom”. It’s the moment a ransomware note appears on a screen, or your company name shows up on a breach list after your entire CRM database gets dumped. It’s the explosion. And by the time it happens, your options are limited. Everything before that moment is “left of boom”. When reviewing how strong our security programs are, we tend to focus […]
Sherweb’s Microsoft monthly updates for MSPs — May 2026
May is a busy month on the Microsoft calendar. There are pricing changes to consider, new products to start having conversations about and some administrative updates that affect how you manage customer subscriptions and permissions. This post pulls together the updates from Microsoft’s May announcements that are most relevant to MSPs. We’ve organized them by category so […]
Microsoft Extended Service Terms (EST): What you need to know before enforcement
Starting May 4, 2026, Microsoft is changing how Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) subscriptions behave when they reach the end of their term. The familiar grace period after expiration is being removed and replaced with Extended Service Terms (EST): a paid, month-to-month extension that applies when subscriptions are neither renewed nor cancelled. For CSP partners, this change directly impacts renewal planning, billing outcomes and customer conversations. Understanding how EST works (and […]
