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Switching a ten-person office between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: the migration weekend, the tools and what breaks

A step-by-step plan for moving ten people either way: the free tools (Exchange batch migration, Migration Manager, Google's data migration service) against MigrationWiz at $14 a user, the MX and SPF cutover timeline, a table of what does not move, a 46.5-hour budget and the overlap bill, from $147 to $1,827 depending on months left on the old annual plan.

November 12, 2026

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info@ and support@ without a paid seat: shared mailboxes in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for a ten-person business

How a ten-person company sets up info@, support@ and invoices@ without paying $216 to $648 a year for empty seats. Microsoft 365 shared mailboxes (free up to 50 GB, sign-in blocked) vs Google Groups Collaborative Inbox and delegation, send-as permissions, reply collisions, licensing traps, and when a dedicated helpdesk is worth it.

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UK VAT for a non-UK software company: the first-pound rule, quarterly returns and what an agent costs

A non-UK SaaS selling to UK consumers has no GBP 90,000 allowance. Here is the 30-day registration rule, B2B reverse charge, MTD filing calendar, published 2026 agent fees, and the cost of own filing against a merchant of record at GBP 3,000 and GBP 30,000 a month.

November 10, 2026

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SPF, DKIM and DMARC for a ten-person business in 2026: why invoices land in spam and the three DNS records that fix it

Why invoices sent through QuickBooks, Stripe or a CRM silently land in customer spam folders, the 10-lookup SPF limit that breaks email delivery, worked DNS records for your domain, and the 4-step path to p=reject.

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