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Adopt Microsoft 365 best practices quickly with Shared Baselines  

Quickly deploy best-practice policy configurations, target specific technical outcomes with ease, and build your ideal tenant security in bite-sized chunks by leveraging Shared Baselines, created and managed by inforcer experts.  

The problem with building
policy baselines manually
 

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Building baselines manually is slow

Researching compliance frameworks, interpreting Microsoft's latest recommendations, and building them into an ideal baseline is a project in its own right: one that can stall onboarding and delay revenue while engineers piece together their best practice policy set.  

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Microsoft 365 configuration is a moving target

Microsoft 365 policy configuration is complex, especially as Microsoft are continually issuing updates, security improvements, and new features. Building baselines manually introduces the risk of initial misconfiguration or missing crucial updates or changes.  

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Lack of standardization creates inconsistency

MSP groups need to keep every associated business aligned to a single security standard. When each member of the group builds its own baseline, you end up with different configurations across customers, with no easy way to roll out a group-wide update.  

Welcome to your
shared baseline library 

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Library of Shared Baselines

Explore every Shared Baseline in one place, filter by product or tag, and review exactly what each one includes before you subscribe or deploy.  

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Use the inforcer Blueprint

Adopt our flagship Shared Baseline: a tiered, modular framework built and continually maintained by inforcer's in-house Microsoft 365 experts.  

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Full control over what you deploy

Take a phased approach by picking the policies that matter most and deploying them directly into your baseline tenant to start architecting your gold-standard configuration.  

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Alignment and deployment, hand in hand

One-to-many rollouts are now simpler than ever, with alignment and deployment working together so the right baselines reach the right tenants at scale.  

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Will Connor

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What our partners say

Hear from the MSPs using inforcer to deploy best practice Microsoft 365 configurations with Shared Baselines  

  • "inforcer has helped us better define what we do and improve how we deliver. To any other Microsoft Partner considering whether to work with inforcer, I d simply ask: can you afford not to?”

    Tom Lovell,
    Chief Technology Officer, Infinity Group

    Infinity Group
  • “With inforcer, we realized we had something that would allow us to define a security standard, and roll that out easily across all our customers. Without it, enrolling a single customer would have required multiple different skillsets and a much longer timeframe."

    Gary Melvin,
    Security Division Lead, Nostra

    Nostra
  • "Unlike other platforms that try to be everything to everyone,inforcer stood out as a pure specialist. Their focus on doing one thing exceptionally well, policy alignment and tenant security, was exactly what we needed."

    Daniel Gough,
    Systems Engineer - Managed Services, Techcare

    Techcare
  • "inforcer is the best platform for our needs: it s fast, easy to understand, and has the best selection of settings available compared to other M365 configuration solutions. It has made it much more manageable to deliver the full value of Microsoft 365 Business Premium to our customers".

    Knut Kyrkjebø,
    Senior ITC Consultant, Procano AS

    Procano

Three simple steps to deploying
 Shared Baselines with inforcer
 

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Browse the Shared Baseline Library 

Open the inforcer Library and explore curated, best-practice baselines built and maintained by our in-house Microsoft 365 experts, including the inforcer Blueprint, regional content like the Essential 8, and other expert-authored baselines.  

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Choose the baseline that fits the outcome

Pick the entire inforcer Blueprint for a complete security foundation, or select a single tier or module such as identity, email, device security, or MAM, to target a specific project or customer maturity stage. You'll see exactly what's included before you deploy.  

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Align and deploy across tenants

Push your chosen baseline to one tenant or many in a few clicks. Alignment and deployment work hand-in-hand, so you can monitor drift, layer additional baselines over time, and uplift security incrementally without re-engineering what's already in place.  

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FAQs about Shared Baselines  

What are Shared Baselines?

Shared Baselines are inforcer-managed, best-practice policy sets you can deploy across your customers' Microsoft 365 tenants. Unlike full tenant baselines, they're focused and modular, so you can adopt only the policies that are relevant to a specific outcome, like securing identity, hardening email, or rolling out Mobile Application Management, depending on your specific requirements. They're curated and maintained by inforcer's Microsoft 365 experts, so you always have a trusted starting point.

How are Shared Baselines different from a full tenant baseline?

A traditional baseline tries to configure everything at once. Shared Baselines take a phased, modular approach, letting you build tenant security in bite-sized chunks rather than a single all-or-nothing rollout. That means lower risk, faster adoption, and the ability to layer security uplift over time without re-engineering what's already in place.  

What is the inforcer Blueprint?

The inforcer Blueprint is our flagship Shared Baseline: a tiered, best-practice policy framework built by inforcer's in-house Microsoft 365 experts and shaped by the global partner community. It gives MSPs an enterprise-grade security foundation they can deploy with confidence and extend, project by project, as their customers mature.

Who are Shared Baselines for?

Shared Baselines and the inforcer Blueprint are built for the engineers and solutions architects responsible for designing and scaling customer security standards. Whether you manage 10 tenants or 10,000, you get a controlled, documented way to deploy best-practice policies without building everything from scratch.  

Can I edit a Shared Baseline?

No, Shared Baselines are read-only and maintained by inforcer, which is what makes them a low-risk starting point. As Microsoft updates its platform, we update the baselines so you get the benefit without the maintenance burden. If you need to tailor configurations to a specific customer, you can use Custom Baselines alongside Shared Baselines.

How do I access Shared Baselines?

Shared Baselines live in the new Library experience inside inforcer, where you can browse the inforcer Blueprint, regional content (such as the Essential 8 for ANZ partners), and other curated baselines. From the Library you can review exactly what each baseline contains before deploying.

Can I deploy just part of a Shared Baseline?

Yes. One of the biggest advantages of Shared Baselines is granular adoption. You can deploy the entire Blueprint, a single tier, or a targeted module like MAM, whatever fits the customer's maturity, license stack, or current project. Alignment and deployment work hand-in-hand, making one-to-many rollouts straightforward. 

Resources

Want to know more? Explore our additional Microsoft management resources. 

See Shared Baselines in action  

Get best practice policy configuration straight out of the box with inforcer.