Every Managed Service Provider (MSP) has a vision and strategy for managing their customers’ tenants. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse helps them realize that vision and execute that strategy, at scale, better than ever before, with the ability to customize baselines based on their unique expertise and tailored to their customers’ needs.
In this article, we'll examine what custom baselines are, why they matter, and how they can help you grow your managed services business.
What are custom baselines?
One of the best things about Lighthouse is the default baseline we provide that makes it easy for you to deploy a standardized set of configurations to your customers’ tenants that make them healthy, secure, and productive. However, a “one-size-fits-all” approach may not be suitable for you – or all your customers.
By creating your own baselines, you can define your standards for security, compliance, and productivity and leverage the power of Lighthouse to deploy those standards across your customers' tenants – and enforce them.
Your baselines can include any combination of tasks from the default baseline and configurations extracted from other tenants you manage such as conditional access policies, device management policies and profiles, Windows Autopilot profiles, and more.
Why custom baselines are awesome
There are many reasons to create your own baselines. Some of the key scenarios that our partners are excited about include:
Partners are discovering that baselines aren’t just a set of configurations, but a foundational element of their marketing strategy, sales motion, operations, and customer lifecycle.
How to create your own baselines
To start creating your own baselines, navigate to the Baselines page in the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse portal.
From there, you can create your own baseline in 3 easy steps:
1. Make your baseline by either cloning an existing baseline, importing a baseline, or starting from scratch.
2. Add deployment tasks by cloning them from another baseline or extracting a configuration from a customer tenant.
3. Assign your baseline to your customers' tenants so that Lighthouse can scan the tenants to tell you whether and to what degree they are already compliant with your new baseline. Then you can use our deployment insights to make sure all your tenants are configured exactly how you want them!
Regardless of where you are on the journey to zero trust, baselines can help you optimize and scale your work. For example:
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