Journal · Microsoft 365 · 2026-09-11
Microsoft 365 for a church or small office — without a Louisville MSP
Licenses, MFA, shared mailboxes, and backups. The boring stack that keeps Sunday from becoming an IT emergency.
What a six-person staff actually needs
A church secretary, a three-person law office, and a clinic all need the same boring things: mail that is not tied to one PC, files that survive a stolen laptop, and logins that are not shared on a sticky note.
Microsoft 365 does that. The mess is licensing, shared mailboxes, and nobody turning on MFA. A Louisville MSP will wrap it in a $200-per-user story. We will set the tenant up, document who owns what, and put it on a plan that matches a 6-person staff.
The first afternoon
If you are still popping PST files off a dead Outlook, that is the first afternoon.
Then MFA, a named admin who is not the pastor’s personal Hotmail, and a backup of the mailbox so a deleted inbox is a restore, not a miracle.
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