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Practical M365 admin guides, audit playbooks, automation recipes, and product updates from the LogFirm team.
CoreView vs. LogFirm: A Head-to-Head for M365 Admins in 2026
We put both platforms through the same workflows — license reclaim, delegated admin, cross-tenant audit — and broke down where each one actually earns its seat in your admin stack.
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Auditing Privileged Access in Microsoft 365: What the Unified Audit Log Won't Tell You
The UAL is the starting point, not the finish line. Here are the privileged-access events Entra quietly drops, and how to catch them before your next review.
Zero-Touch Onboarding with LogFirm: From HRIS Event to Provisioned User in 4 Minutes
Walk through the exact Scenario Automation we use to turn a BambooHR "new hire" webhook into a fully licensed, group-mapped M365 user — no tickets, no checklists.
Running Microsoft 365 at MSP Scale: Lessons from 200 Tenants
What breaks when you go from 10 tenants to 200, where GDAP actually helps, and the reports every MSP should be sending to clients on day one.
The Offboarding Checklist Every IT Team Forgets (and How to Automate It)
Mailbox delegation, OneDrive handover, token revocation, Teams ownership — the eight steps manual offboarding always misses, and the workflow that catches them.
What Entra ID Won't Log (and How to Catch the Gaps)
Consent grants, service principal changes, B2B invites — the blind spots in Entra's sign-in and audit logs, and how to build compensating detections.
License Sprawl: Finding the $80K of Unused M365 Licenses Hiding in Your Tenant
The four reports we run monthly to surface inactive E5s, duplicated add-ons, and ex-employee assignments — and the reclaim workflow that pays for itself in a quarter.
How to Build a Scenario Automation: Group Membership → Auto-Provisioned Salesforce Access
Step-by-step: wire an Entra group change to SCIM provisioning in Salesforce, with approvals, rollback, and audit trail — all from the LogFirm workflow canvas.
Delegated Admin the Right Way: Least-Privilege Patterns for MSPs
GDAP is a big improvement over DAP, but it's easy to over-grant. Here's the role-mapping template we use across tenants to keep techs effective and scopes tight.
From Ticket Queue to Same-Day Start: DataPipe's Onboarding Transformation
How a 400-person fintech cut new-hire provisioning from 3 days to 11 minutes using LogFirm Scenario workflows and their existing HRIS.
The Case for Pulling Out of Every M365 Admin Center
You shouldn't need eight browser tabs to answer "who changed this?" A consolidated view of Entra, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams changes — and why it matters for compliance.
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