Microsoft 365 for Trades Crews in Surrey and the Lower Mainland
Business email, Teams, and SharePoint so the crew can work from the truck and the shop. Set up for trades and field-service contractors in Surrey and the Lower Mainland.
If your crew runs on Gmail or Google Workspace today, we can plan the move and keep your domain.
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Why trades outgrow consumer email
A personal inbox and a group text are enough until the crew is on two sites and a new hire needs yesterday's drawings. That is the point where trades and field-service contractors in Surrey and the Lower Mainland usually call.
Mail the company does not own
Quotes and supplier mail live in a personal Gmail or Hotmail inbox. When someone leaves, the history leaves with them.
The job lives in a group text
Office and field coordinate in a thread on someone's phone. There is no shared record of what was decided.
Files stuck on one laptop
Drawings and job photos stay on the device that took them, so the person at the shop cannot open them.
What we set up
We set up the tools the office and the field actually share, then keep administering them. Microsoft 365 administration is included on the Professional plan.
Business email
Each person gets mail on the company domain, so customer and supplier mail stays with the company.
Teams between the office and the field
The shop and the crew on site use Teams for the day's work, in place of a private group text.
SharePoint for the shared files
Drawings, photos, and job documents go in SharePoint. They are not left across personal Drive accounts.
Intune and remote wipe
Company phones and laptops are enrolled. If one is lost on a job site, it can be wiped.
Devices and security
The crew can work from the truck and the shop because the devices they carry are company devices, with a way to lock them down.
Phones and laptops that leave the shop
Devices that go to Surrey and Lower Mainland job sites are enrolled, so policy can follow the device.
A lost phone can be wiped
Intune remote wipe is there for a phone or laptop that does not come back from site.
Software from one place
Company devices can receive software and policy from Intune, so each new phone is not set up by hand in the truck.
Able Electrical LTD, Microsoft 365 and Intune
The Microsoft 365 and Intune work for Able Electrical LTD is part of their managed IT case study. They are an electrical contractor in Surrey, with crews on job sites across the Lower Mainland.
From the managed IT case study
Able Electrical LTD
We migrated Able Electrical LTD to Microsoft 365 Business Standard: business email, Teams, and SharePoint. Company devices were enrolled in Microsoft Intune for remote wipe, policy, and software deployment.
Read the Able Electrical LTD managed IT case studyRelated
- Managed IT for electrical contractors
- See managed IT pricing
- Cloud and Microsoft 365 service details
- Websites for electrical contractors
- MSP vs break/fix for field trades
- Job-site IT checklist
- Able Electrical LTD website case study
- Trends Electrical website case study
- Managed IT service details
- Web design service details
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