Windows Server Management & Support | Vancouver

Plenty of Lower Mainland businesses still run a server. It holds the shared files, the accounting database, or the one line-of-business app the whole company depends on. When that server is set up and looked after properly, you never think about it. When it is not, it becomes the thing that takes the whole office down on a Tuesday morning.

We run Windows Server properly, whether it sits in a cupboard in your office, in a data centre, or in the cloud. And if you no longer need one, we will tell you that too.

What we handle

Windows Server setup, hardening, patching, and monitoring
Active Directory and user accounts, on their own or joined to Microsoft 365
File and print servers, with permissions that make sense
Remote and hybrid access, set up securely rather than left open
Server backups that are tested, not just assumed
Moving off ageing servers, to newer hardware or to the cloud

The server nobody maintains

The most common thing we find is a server that was set up years ago and has run untouched ever since. No one has installed an update in a long time, nobody is watching it, and there is no record of how it was configured. It works, right up until it does not, and by then the person who built it is long gone.

We take ownership of the whole box. Updates get applied on a schedule, health gets monitored, and how it is set up gets written down. You own that documentation, and you keep it if you ever leave.

Active Directory and accounts

Active Directory is the quiet backbone of a Windows network. It decides who can log in, what they can reach, and what happens on a new hire's first day. Set up well, it makes everything else simpler. Set up badly, it is the reason a small change turns into an afternoon.

We keep it tidy, and we connect it to Microsoft 365 where that helps, so one login works across your server and your cloud apps. If a full move to Microsoft 365 makes more sense than running your own directory, we will say so.

File servers and permissions

A shared drive is only useful when the right people can reach the right folders and nobody else can. Permissions tend to grow into a tangle over the years, until everyone has access to everything because it was easier at the time. We straighten that out, so the structure matches how your business actually works.

Remote and hybrid access

If your team needs to reach the server from home or a job site, that access has to be both reliable and locked down. We set up remote access, including Remote Desktop where you need it, with the login security to match. Open a server to the internet without that, and it will be found within the hour.

Backups and recovery

A server backup nobody has restored is a guess. We back up your server, monitor that the jobs complete, and test that a restore actually works. Then we make sure there is a plan for the day the hardware fails: how you keep working, and how fast you are back.

When it is time to move

Not every business still needs a server. A lot of what a file server used to do now lives comfortably in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, at lower cost and with nothing to maintain. When that is the right call, we handle the move: files, permissions, accounts, and the line-of-business app, with as little disruption as possible.

When you do still need one, whether on new hardware in the office or on a server in Azure, we plan and run that migration as a fixed-scope project. Either way, you get an honest answer about which path fits, not a default sale.

What this costs

Looking after your server and accounts is part of your managed plan, included from Complete at $175 per user per month. A one-time piece of work, a new server, a migration, or a move to the cloud, is quoted as a fixed-scope project so you see the number before anything starts. See the full pricing breakdown.

Windows Server and infrastructure