Independent Microsoft Cloud Practice

Structure,
from complexity.

Nebulae Solutions is a specialist Microsoft cloud consultancy delivering identity, endpoint, and architecture work to enterprise standard – end-to-end, fully documented, at senior level throughout.

Practice lead Andy Wills · Solutions Architect
Engagement model MSP-embedded & direct-client
Experience 12+ years enterprise delivery
Services · 01

Four disciplines, one practitioner.

Specialism over breadth. Engagements are scoped within these areas and delivered end-to-end – architecture, implementation, documentation, handover.

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Identity & Access

Phishing-resistant authentication, privileged access redesign, and Entra ID governance – built on zero-trust principles and aligned to recognised security baselines.

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Endpoint Security & Application Control

Intune-led endpoint management with application control and Defender integration – Windows and macOS, configured to a documented baseline.

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Cloud & Automation

Azure architecture and governance through to PowerShell and Graph automation – landing zones, networking, and migration at one end, versioned reviewable scripting at the other.

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Design & Documentation

Architecture artefacts written to senior-review and change-board standard. The deliverable is not the deck – it is documentation a successor engineer can actually use.

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Approach · 02

How the work actually arrives.

A consultant’s discipline with an engineer’s precision. Formal workstreams, defined scope, documented outcomes – work that stands up to senior technical and governance scrutiny: security, IT, and change-board review alike.

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Senior from first call to handover.

One practitioner across discovery, design, build, and handover. No junior hand-off, no learning on your time, no escalation to "someone more senior" – that is who you are already talking to.

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The documentation is the deliverable.

Every engagement leaves artefacts your teams can actually use – structured, classified, and written for whoever reads them next: a change board, a successor engineer, your auditors.

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Inside your process, not alongside it.

Work runs through your change control, your tooling, and your tickets – and alongside the teams who own the systems. The objective is a clean handover, not a dependency on me.

Technologies · 03

The right toolset.

A focused set of platforms, languages, and frameworks – chosen to match the depth each engagement needs, not padded for breadth. Microsoft at the core, with the specialist tooling a brief occasionally calls for.

Identity & Access 01

  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Conditional Access
  • Azure PIM
  • Windows Hello for Business
  • Platform SSO
  • Microsoft Authenticator
  • Azure Key Vault

Endpoint 02

  • Microsoft Intune
  • Windows Autopilot
  • Defender for Endpoint
  • WDAC / App Control
  • LAPS

Cloud & Automation 03

  • Microsoft Azure (Landing Zones, networking)
  • Azure Virtual Desktop / W365
  • Bicep / ARM
  • PowerShell
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • KQL / Advanced Hunting
  • Microsoft Sentinel

AI-Assisted Delivery 04

  • LLM-augmented automation & documentation
  • Claude Code
  • Microsoft Copilot / Security Copilot
  • Prompt & workflow engineering
  • Agentic tooling for repeatable delivery & audit tasks

Aligned to 05

  • CIS Benchmarks L1
  • NCSC Guidance
  • ISO 27001 alignment
  • Cyber Essentials / CE+
  • Zero Trust principles
  • CAB / ITIL
About · 04

A practice of one.

Nebulae Solutions is operated by Andy Wills – a Solutions Architect with over a decade of enterprise delivery experience across identity, endpoint, and Microsoft cloud.

The practice works exclusively at the architecture and advisory layer – not general IT support, not body-shop delivery. Engagements are taken on selectively, typically through managed service providers embedding senior delivery resource into complex security uplift programmes, or directly with mid-market and enterprise clients.

Audiences are usually senior security, IT, and operations leadership – and the delivery teams whose environments the work touches. Outputs range across the full design and governance lifecycle: architecture and design, configuration and handover, change and governance, end-user adoption. HLDs, LLDs, and CRDs are typical – the format follows the audience. Substance is the differentiator.

BasedCheltenham, UK
Operating since2024
Engagement typeFixed-price, scoped
SeniorityArchitect / Lead
PORTRAIT · ANDY WILLS
Contact · 05

Start a conversation.

For new engagements, partner introductions, or scoping conversations on existing programmes.

Currently booking · Q3 2026 onwards

Engagements are typically scoped over a one-call discovery and confirmed in a short written proposal. Response within one working day.

Treated in confidence. No retainer fee for scoping.