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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: One ITAD Policy, Three Countries: The Certificate an Auditor Will Actually Accept

September 29, 2026 | 16 min

One ITAD Policy, Three Countries: The Certificate an Auditor Will Actually Accept

For the regional IT asset owner or facilities lead retiring three or four years of devices across Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam in one programme — usually triggered by an audit or a lease event. What an erasure or destruction certificate actually has to show before an auditor will accept it, where chain of custody breaks between three countries, what genuinely differs by jurisdiction versus what should never be assumed, and how to write one group ITAD policy that survives three different sets of local logistics.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: 120 Licences, Nine Countries, No Office: Managing Microsoft 365 for a Remote Team

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.