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Microsoft 365 Support & Office 365 support

Professional technical support for Microsoft’s key business tools, offering you extra peace of mind and security.

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Improving your business security

With more and more businesses falling foul of elaborate scam attempts, it is important that your organisation has the measures in place to protect your business and its assets. This can include implementing multi-factor authentication, periodic checking of email forwarding rules and data leak prevention policies.

Strategy 365 can help to review your existing measures and implement new ones.

support when you need it

Expert support for Office 365 & Microsoft 365

Although Microsoft aims to make the administration of their business offerings as straightforward as possible, there are times when a little extra professional support can be required. Whether it’s a review to ensure your staff are correctly licensed, answering questions about the available office suite products or assistance with SharePoint, our team of qualified Microsoft experts can help.

Our Office 365 and Microsoft 365 support services packages allow you to utilise Strategy 365’s expertise in the way that best suits your business needs.

A support services agreement can be used for any of the following:

The Strategy 365 Support Model

Extensive Office 365 Support

The Strategy 365 Office 365 support model is fair and transparent. Our Terms and Conditions ensure that our customers are always aware as to the scope of the agreement and are never kept waiting for responses to important requests.

Our Support Prices

At Strategy 365, we are transparent with our Support costs; click here for more details on our rates and volume discounts.

How it works

Our support services are charged by a simple day rate that can be consumed on an hourly basis in as little as 15 minute slots.

The minimum number of days that can be purchased for Office 365 support services is one, with a full day equating to 7.5 hours. The cost per day is dependent on the number of days’ commitment made upfront.

Should you require additional support, top-up days can be bought and added to the agreement. There are various price points at which you can enter, which reduce accordingly based on your initial commitment.

Making a support request

A support request can be made by the following methods –

  • By Telephone
  • By Email
  • By Support Portal

At Strategy 365, we use Dynamics 365 internally to support our clients. All requests for support are logged using the case management functionality which handles the logging of the request, the SLA, details of the issue resolution and the time spent in resolving the issue.

Supported products

The core products that are supported under an Office 365 support agreement are:

  • Office 365 productivity desktop and web applications (Word, Excel, Outlook etc)
  • Exchange Online
  • Microsoft Teams
  • SharePoint Online **
  • Azure **
  • Office 365 Device Management **
  • Office 365 Security and Compliance Centre **

** Limited support

Reporting

A monthly report is issued, summarising the consumption of support time. It also shows the remaining balance of support time and a reminder of the agreement end date.

Target response times / SLAs

The category of a case will be determined by our support team at the time the issue is first raised with us. Our target response times are shown below –

  • Critical – 2 Hour Response (Major system failure or loss of service affecting all staff)
  • High – 4 Hour Response (Loss of service affecting a large number of staff)
  • Medium – 8 Hour Response (Loss of service affecting a small number of staff)
  • Low – N/A * (Small issues not affecting the overall operation of the system)
  • Request – N/A * (Any support request that does not relate to a break/fix issue)

* Timescales will be determined on an individual basis and agreed with the customer.

Support time credits

In the unlikely event that we fail to meet the Target Response Times as set out in the above section, we will credit the customer with support time as per the details below.

  • Critical – Credit of 2 hours support time
  • High – Credit of 1 hour support time
  • Medium – Issue will be resolved free of charge without consuming any support time
  • Low – N/A
  • Request – N/A

Expenses

All travel and subsistence expenses for any on-site services provided under a support agreement, will be charged to the client.

See how our Support Model compares

Microsoft partners have differing models for Office 365 support and it can be confusing as to which would be the best fit for your business.

Here is how the Strategy 365 support model compares to those typically offered elsewhere. Swipe through the options.

Our Support Model

Purchasing a set number of days to be consumed over a twelve-month period

Advantages:

  • Fixed cost based on anticipated support usage
  • Can be increased or decreased annually based on requirements
  • Payment can be spread over the course of the year via monthly Direct Debit
  • Support can be used for more than just break/fix issues and can include system customisation and improvements

 

Disadvantages:

  • It may be difficult to initially estimate how much time is required for the twelve-month period

Per User Per Month Model

Charging a fixed amount per user per month

Advantages:

  • Annual support costs are predictable
  • Potentially lower support costs for low user counts

 

Disadvantages:

  • Paying for support every month regardless of usage
  • Increased support costs as user count grows
  • Assumes that as user count increases that more support is required
  • Usually just for break/fix issues – additional work is often a chargeable extra
  • Companies that have simple support requirements but a large number of users will end up paying more than they should
  • Fair usage policies often apply

Fixed Time Per Month Model

Fixed support amount per month based on total users

Advantages:

  • Annual support costs are predictable
  • More available support time as user count grows

 

Disadvantages:

  • Paying for support every month regardless of usage
  • Increased support costs as user count grows
  • Fixed time is often not used but still charged for
  • Usually just for break/fix issues – additional work is often a chargeable extra.
  • Companies that have simple Office 365 support requirements but a large number of users will end up paying more than they should

Set No. of Support Cases Model

Set number of support cases logged over twelve-month period

Advantages:

  • Each support case could be used for larger pieces work for better value per case

 

Disadvantages:

  • Smaller pieces of work would still consume a full case creating a reluctance to use up cases
  • Additional cases always incur additional cost
  • Fair usage policies often apply to stop customers using a single case for larger pieces of work

Our Support Pricing

Office 365 & Microsoft 365 Support

Option 1 – Annual Payment£800£1,550£2,250£2,900
Option 2 – Monthly Payment *
£70.00£135.63£196.88£253.75
No. of Days1234 **
No. of Hours7.51522.530
Rate Per Day£800£775£750£725

* includes a 5% surcharge for monthly Direct Debits.
** please contact us to discuss options when more than 4 days are required.

For more information on how we can help your business, call us today on 01782 916920 or contact us