Compare: Microsoft 365 management
Inforcer alternative: Tenvara
Inforcer helps MSPs standardise Microsoft 365 by deploying their own policy baselines to every customer tenant, alerting on drift and backing policies up. Tenvara runs its security checks on every tenant after each sync, deploys your own baselines and fixes drift automatically, and runs the everyday user, starter, leaver and licence work next to your tickets, devices and billing.
The tool today
What Inforcer does
Microsoft 365 policy baselines, drift alerts and policy backup across every customer tenant. Made by Inforcer. This is how the vendor describes it, in our words.
- Build your own Microsoft 365 baselines and deploy policies to many tenants at once.
- Detects configuration drift and alerts through Teams, Slack, webhooks or a PSA ticket.
- Backs up policies and settings nightly or on demand, and restores them.
- Covers Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive, Teams and Purview policies.
- Tenant assessments against frameworks such as CIS, Essential 8, Cyber Essentials and NIS2.
- Group and user management, Intune app management, and a separate Threat Detection and Response product.
Side by side
Tenvara vs Inforcer
The Microsoft 365 management jobs that matter most, and how each product handles them. Then what else comes with Tenvara, such as a service desk, RMM and Microsoft 365 backup, in the same app.
Security checks against a baseline
Tenant assessments against baselines
Framework mapping
CIS, Essential 8, Cyber Essentials, NIS2
Conditional Access templates
Part of Entra ID policy coverage
Change history with undo
Policy backup and restore
User management, starters and leavers
Group and user management, on and offboarding
Alerts into tickets
Tickets in Autotask, ConnectWise or HaloPSA
Licence billing against your distributor
Licensing status tracking
Your own policy baselines deployed to many tenants
Custom baselines and shared baselines
Intune policies
Snapshot, compare, deploy and restore
Backup and restore of tenant settings
Nightly or manual policy backup and restore
Mailbox management
Convert to shared mailbox in user management
Copilot and AI readiness
Copilot readiness assessments with a report
Account threat alerts
Sold as inforcer Threat Detection and Response
Also in Tenvara
What else you get with Tenvara, in the same app
PSA and service desk
Not included; creates tickets in Autotask, ConnectWise or HaloPSA
Remote monitoring and alerts
Not included
Microsoft 365 backup
Not included; backs up policies and settings only
Security monitoring
Separate product: inforcer TDR
Endpoint, server and VM backup
Not included
Remote access
Not included
Hybrid Active Directory
Synced users reset, unlocked and changed on the customer's domain controller through the agent Guide
Not part of Inforcer; manages Entra ID and Microsoft 365 in the cloud
Add-on means the vendor sells it as a separate product or paid extra. Inforcer details come from the vendor's own website, see sources.
The one-app pitch
What else you'd replace
Most MSPs running Inforcer pay for several other tools beside it. Tenvara does these jobs too, on the same customer record, with one agent and one login.
See every comparisonSwitching
Moving from Inforcer
A calm move, not a big bang. Run both side by side until your team is happy.
How a gradual move to Tenvara works-
1
Connect your tenants
Register Tenvara's multi-tenant app once, then connect each customer with an admin consent link or from your GDAP relationships.
Connecting a tenant -
2
Tune the checks to your standard
After the first sync each tenant is scored. Switch checks off or change their severity to match your own standard, and accept agreed risks with a reason and an end date.
Security findings -
3
Deploy Conditional Access templates
Deploy the templates report-only, watch the sign-in logs, then enforce them with an administrator's approval.
Sign-ins, apps and policies -
4
Set up starters and leavers
Save your usual licences, groups and leaver steps as templates for every tenant, one customer or one tenant.
Starters and leavers -
5
Run both side by side, then switch
Work tenants from Tenvara for a few weeks, compare its findings with your Inforcer reports, then move the day-to-day tenant work across.
Inforcer pricing
Inforcer prices by quote. Its pricing page says 365 Manager is priced per tenant, with a minimum of 20 tenants on a 12-month term.
Vendor pricing pageTenvara pricing
One product with every feature included, hosted or self-hosted. Tenvara is new and in beta, and pricing is announced before launch.
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Inforcer vs Tenvara: FAQ
Yes. Tenvara re-runs its checks after every sync and raises an alert when a check starts failing. It also alerts on events such as a Conditional Access policy being deleted or switched off, or someone being made an administrator.
Most are. Every change is recorded with its value before, and tenant settings changed by a fix can be put back from the change log. For a leaver, undoing the run puts back every reversible step, newest first.
CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark 3.1, NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, the CISA SCuBA baselines and ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Level 2, each with its own score.
Every change shows a preview first. Destructive ones need the target's name typed to confirm, and high-risk ones, such as enforcing a Conditional Access policy, need an administrator or their approval.
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Apply for the beta to run Tenvara side by side with Inforcer before you decide, or get launch updates and hear first when pricing is announced.
Comparison based on publicly available information as of September 2026. Inforcer is a trademark of its owner; Tenvara is not affiliated with it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.
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