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Free ROI calculator for MSPs  

Manually onboarding each new Microsoft 365 tenant takes the average MSP between 4–20 hours. When your software engineers make $50–$85 per hour, those costs add up fast.

Use this free calculator to find out how much you could save by using inforcer’s platform, which allows MSPs to reduce onboarding time to under an hour per client. You’ll also see how much you could save on ongoing maintenance costs.

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Fast Facts about Onboarding &
Managing MSP Tenants

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4–20 Hours

The amount of time required for the average MSP to onboard each new Microsoft 365 tenant.

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$50–$85

The average hourly rate of a software engineer working for an MSP.

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80%

The amount of time inforcer saves a typical MSP on policy creation, review, and management.

Calculate Your ROI from Onboarding & Managing Microsoft 365 Tenants with inforcer

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Streamline onboarding

Manually onboarding each new Microsoft 365 tenant represents more than wasted time and comes with a real cost in billable hours for your software engineers. And that’s to say nothing of the management costs you incur when those engineers are tied up with time-consuming onboarding tasks instead of using their expertise to solve higher-value problems.

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Simplify multi-tenant management

inforcer is designed to simplify multi-tenant management, streamlining both onboarding and long-term management. It enables MSPs that use it to onboard each new tenant in an hour or less, while substantially reducing the time required for policy review and addressing configuration drift.

Calculate Your ROI

Fill in the following information to see how much you could save on tenant onboarding costs with inforcer:

  • Your average annual senior engineer salary
  • The number of tenants you manage
  • The hours you spend on policy work per tenant each month
  • The average number of new tenants you onboard each month
  • The average number of hours you spend each month on tenant review

The calculator will provide an estimate of your hourly and cost savings for:

  • Microsoft 365 Policy Definition, Creation, & Review
  • New Tenant Onboarding
  • Hardening and Drift Management for Existing Customers
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1 — Policy Definition, Creation & Review

Annual saving from using pre-built best-practice templates instead of building policies from scratch.

Inforcer saves an estimated 80% of the time your team currently spends on policy creation and review per tenant.
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80% of manual policy time recovered
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labour cost recovered

2 — New Tenant Onboarding

Annual saving on pre-onboarding audits and policy set-up, per new customer onboarded.

Inforcer automates the full audit and policy setup process, recovering 100% of manual onboarding time per new tenant.
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full audit + setup time recovered
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across all new tenants

3 — Hardening & Drift Management

Annual saving on the ongoing manual review and drift management of existing managed tenants.

Inforcer reviews 100% of your tenants automatically, reducing per-tenant review time to approximately 10 minutes. Uses your managed tenant count from Section 01.
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across all managed tenants
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Inforcer monitors automatically
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Disclaimer: This calculator is intended for educational purposes and provides ballpark estimates only. Actual inforcer pricing may vary depending on your MSPs needs and number of clients. Contact inforcer for a custom quote.

FAQs about about M365 Onboarding & Management with inforcer

Why does manual Microsoft 365 tenant onboarding take so long?

Onboarding a new Microsoft 365 tenant manually involves configuring security policies, setting up conditional access rules, applying compliance baselines, and validating settings across every service. These tasks must be performed one at a time for every tenant an MSP manages.

For most MSPs, this process takes anywhere from 4 to 20 hours per tenant, depending on the complexity of the environment and the level of standardization required. Without automation, even experienced engineers spend significant time on repetitive configuration work that doesn't scale.

What are the biggest risks of onboarding tenants manually?

Manual onboarding introduces the risk of human error, inconsistent configurations, and security gaps. Engineers responsible for configuring tenants by hand are often under pressure to complete their work within a specific scope, which creates a risk of missing steps or making mistakes. This can create compliance exposure and make ongoing management significantly harder, especially as an MSP’s client base grows. 

How does inforcer reduce onboarding and management time for Microsoft 365 tenants?

inforcer allows MSPs to deploy pre-built security baselines, align tenant configurations, and standardize Microsoft 365 environments in under an hour. Rather than configuring each tenant from scratch, your team can apply a consistent, proven baseline across all clients to dramatically reduce both the time and the risk associated with onboarding. 

Can inforcer help if my team already has an onboarding process in place?

Yes. inforcer is designed to complement and accelerate existing workflows, not replace them entirely. If your team has established standards for how Microsoft 365 environments should be configured, inforcer makes it easy to encode those standards and apply them consistently at scale. This makes your process faster, more reliable, and less dependent on any individual engineer's performance. 

How does inconsistent tenant configuration affect ongoing management?

Tenants that were configured inconsistently at onboarding tend to require more ongoing maintenance. When each environment is slightly different, troubleshooting takes longer, policy changes need to be applied manually tenant by tenant, and the risk of a misconfiguration going unnoticed increases. inforcer's baseline approach means your tenants stay aligned over time, reducing the long-term management burden on your team. 

Is inforcer only useful for onboarding, or does it help with ongoing tenant management too?

inforcer delivers significant time savings at onboarding, but its value extends well beyond the initial setup. MSPs use inforcer to continuously monitor tenant configurations, detect drift from approved baselines, and push updates across their entire client base at once. This means less reactive firefighting and more time spent on higher-value work for your clients. 

Make Tenant Onboarding and Management Scalable with inforcer

Onboarding and managing Microsoft 365 tenants eat up your MSP’s profit margins or run your engineering team ragged. Free up both by using inforcer’s platform to onboard at a fraction of the cost, and manage all of your tenants from a single hub designed to provide unprecedented visibility and control.

  • Build custom baseline templates or use ready-made ones for CIS, Essential 8, NIS2, and more.
  • Quickly find settings that don’t match your standards and bring them back into line.
  • Find existing customer policies and automatically rename them to match your standards.
  • Deploy, update, or delete policies in bulk across tenants.
  • Use custom tags to organize, deploy, alert, and report without checking each tenant manually.
  • Manage access, simplify offboarding, and more with powerful admin tools.

inforcer provides MSPs with the tools required to make onboarding and long-term tenant management more efficient, increasing profit margins and satisfaction with your services.

Book a demo today to see inforcer in action and learn more about how our platform can help your MSP scale.

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