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Notes from
the Microsoft stack.
Practical writing for Canadian small businesses — Microsoft 365 licensing in CAD, PIPEDA-aware SharePoint setups, when to use pay-as-you-go IT, and how to avoid the obvious traps. Less hot takes, more lessons earned at 2 a.m. in the middle of a migration.
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Case study: a 12-person SaaS startup moves from Trello to Microsoft 365
How a North American SaaS startup migrated from Trello, scattered Gmail, and a Dropbox-plus-Drive document jumble to a properly architected Microsoft 365 tenant — in six weeks, with no downtime, in time for a Series A diligence pass.
- Case study
- Microsoft 365
- SharePoint
- Migration
- SaaS
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Microsoft 365 Copilot for Canadian SMBs: what's worth paying for
Copilot is real, useful, and — at roughly $40 CAD/user/month on top of M365 — easy to overspend on. A practical look at where it earns its keep and where you should hold off.
- AI
- Copilot
- Microsoft 365
- Canada
- Licensing
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How much does Microsoft 365 actually cost a 10-person Canadian business?
What Microsoft 365 actually costs a 10-person Canadian business — Business Basic, Standard, and Premium pricing in CAD, plus the hidden costs and licence-mix savings most owners never get walked through.
- Microsoft 365
- Licensing
- Cost optimization
- Canadian SMB
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Microsoft 365 for Canadian small business: licensing in CAD
How Microsoft 365 plans line up against the workflows of a typical Canadian SMB, what they cost in Canadian dollars, and the licence mistakes most small businesses make.
- Microsoft 365
- Licensing
- Canada
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Practical AI for Canadian small business: three use cases that actually pay back
Beyond the chatbot demos — three specific AI workflows we've seen quietly earn their keep in real Canadian SMBs, with honest numbers and the gotchas nobody mentions in the keynote.
- AI
- Power Platform
- Azure OpenAI
- Automation
- Canada
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PIPEDA-aware SharePoint: a practical setup for Canadian SMBs
How to configure SharePoint Online so a Canadian small business can responsibly handle personal information under PIPEDA, without enterprise tooling or enterprise pricing.
- SharePoint
- PIPEDA
- Compliance
- Canada
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Pay-as-you-go IT support: how it works (and who it isn't for)
How Embrollar's pay-as-you-go IT support is priced, what's included in the small monthly minimum, and the kinds of small businesses it isn't a fit for.
- IT Support
- Pricing
- Pay-as-you-go