licence management

September 28, 2026 | 19 min

120 Licences, Nine Countries, No Office: Managing Microsoft 365 for a Remote Team

For the head of operations or chief of staff at a roughly 120-person fully remote software company, with staff across Asia, the Gulf, Europe and Australia and no office anywhere. Why ordinary licence hygiene — not a security programme — is what a distributed Microsoft 365 tenant actually needs: joiners, movers and leavers as a process rather than a checklist, monthly licence right-sizing, the small non-negotiable security baseline (MFA, conditional access basics, a recoverable backup), and devices managed with no office to issue them from. Not a migration guide — this is for a tenant you already have.