Managed IT Services Onboarding Checklist: What Happens in the First 30 Days?
What should actually happen in the first thirty days with a new managed IT provider, day by day and with the clocks that run whether or not anyone is watching them: the 90-day GDAP request window, the two-year cap on delegated access, Microsoft’s 30-day Expired and 90-day Disabled subscription states, the 30-day Entra ID recovery window for a deleted user, and the 14-day critical-patch rule that is an automatic Cyber Essentials failure under the Danzell question set. It models the provider’s own effort at 123 hours — £10,455, or 3.1682 months of a £3,300 monthly fee — shows the discovery gap between a declared and a discovered estate, and ends with a weighted day-30 scorecard with a pass mark of 80.
