Mission Log: The A Teams Journal

Documenting the missions, the tech, and the people we have helped.

From bold builds to strategic insights, this is where we share what’s really going on behind the scenes. Dive into our latest missions, tech tips, lessons learned, and thoughts on what’s next.

Free audits. Real advice. Zero nonsense.
September 8, 2025

Free audits. Real advice. Zero nonsense.

We’ve seen our fair share of tangled Microsoft 365 setups. Unused licences. Half-migrated SharePoint sites. “Governance” documents that no one’s read in years. It happens.

School’s Out! But Your Tech Can’t Be
July 16, 2025

School’s Out! But Your Tech Can’t Be

When everyone clocks off for the summer, who’s keeping the lights on? It’s that time of year again. Schools break up, inboxes ping with out-of-office replies, and your IT team thins out faster than a British beach bar on a rainy day.

Avoiding Digital Disasters: Don’t Let Friday the 13th Haunt Your Tech Stack
June 13, 2025

Avoiding Digital Disasters: Don’t Let Friday the 13th Haunt Your Tech Stack

Friday the 13th: unlucky for some. Especially if your Microsoft environment is held together with duct tape and good intentions.

Streamlining Workflows with Copilot Actions in Microsoft 365
June 5, 2025

Streamlining Workflows with Copilot Actions in Microsoft 365

If you’re using Microsoft 365 and not exploring Copilot Actions, you’re missing out on some serious productivity gains. This isn’t another clunky chatbot or vague suggestion engine. We’re talking about AI that does things directly from your working environment. Book a hotel. Schedule a follow-up. Pull figures into Excel. Draft a response in Outlook. It’s all happening through simple prompts, driven by real-time context. The future of workflow automation isn’t buried in settings, it’s right there in the chat box.  

Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning: Customising AI for Your Business
May 30, 2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning: Customising AI for Your Business

At Microsoft Build 2025, Microsoft unveiled Copilot Tuning—a low-code capability within Microsoft Copilot Studio that allows organisations to tailor AI models using their own data, workflows, and processes without the need for extensive data science expertise.

AI Agents, Microsoft’s Big Bet, and Why You Need a Human Firewall
May 27, 2025

AI Agents, Microsoft’s Big Bet, and Why You Need a Human Firewall

Welcome to the Age of AI Agents At Microsoft Build 2025, the tech giant unveiled its vision for an “open agentic web,” introducing over 50 AI tools designed to empower developers to create autonomous systems capable of making decisions and completing tasks with minimal human intervention.

Don’t Be the Next Headline: Strengthen Your Cyber Defences with The A Teams
May 20, 2025

Don’t Be the Next Headline: Strengthen Your Cyber Defences with The A Teams

With cyber attacks dominating the news once again, like the recent ransomware strike on Peter Green Chilled, it’s clear that no business is immune. From logistics companies to law firms, threat actors are finding cracks in digital armour and exploiting them with devastating effect. For businesses running on Microsoft 365 and Azure, the risks are real but so are the solutions.

Mastering Conditional Access and Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365
May 7, 2025

Mastering Conditional Access and Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365

Imagine your Microsoft 365 tenant as a high-security nightclub. Conditional Access is the digital bouncer, checking IDs (and devices) at the door, while Sensitivity Labels are the VIP rope, deciding who gets backstage access to sensitive files.

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