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Microsoft 365 Lighthouse alternative: Tenvara
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is Microsoft's own portal for partners in the Cloud Solution Provider programme, free to use, with baselines, user and device views and risky sign-ins across customer tenants. Tenvara covers the tenant security and user side too, and works for any customer through an admin consent link, not only those under GDAP. It also puts that work next to your tickets, devices, licence billing and backup. Since Lighthouse costs nothing, you can happily use both.
The tool today
What Microsoft 365 Lighthouse does
Microsoft's free multi-tenant portal for CSP partners to secure and manage customer tenants. Made by Microsoft. This is how the vendor describes it, in our words.
- Multi-tenant views across customer users, devices and data, for CSP partners.
- A default baseline for small and medium businesses, with deployment tasks per tenant.
- Device compliance insights for Intune-enrolled devices and Defender threat details.
- Common tasks such as password resets, MFA and self-service password reset set-up, and risky sign-ins.
- Microsoft 365 service incidents and advisories affecting the tenants you manage.
- AI-driven sales and retention recommendations for account managers.
Side by side
Tenvara vs Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
The Microsoft 365 management jobs that matter most, and how each product handles them.
Every customer tenant in one place
Multi-tenant views for CSP partners
Customers without GDAP
Needs GDAP or DAP to onboard a tenant
Security baseline per tenant
Default SMB baseline with deployment tasks
Password and MFA resets
Password resets, MFA and SSPR tools
Risky sign-ins
Risky sign-ins and risky users
Defender threats
Defender threat details for Windows devices
Tickets, licence billing and backup
A Microsoft 365 and device admin portal
Add-on means the vendor sells it as a separate product or paid extra. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse details come from the vendor's own website, see sources.
The one-app pitch
What else you'd replace
Most MSPs running Microsoft 365 Lighthouse pay for several other tools beside it. Tenvara does these jobs too, on the same customer record, with one agent and one login.
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Moving from Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
A calm move, not a big bang. Run both side by side until your team is happy.
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Connect your tenants
Register Tenvara's multi-tenant app once. Connect GDAP customers straight from your relationships, and everyone else with an admin consent link.
Connecting a tenant -
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Review the findings
After the first sync each tenant gets a posture score. Fix what you can in a click and accept agreed risks with a reason and an end date.
Security findings -
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Deploy the agent for device work
Patching, scripts and software go through Tenvara's agent, which can be rolled out through Intune or any MDM that runs a script.
Installing the agent -
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Keep Lighthouse where it helps
Lighthouse is free, so keep it for Intune and service health and run day-to-day tenant work from Tenvara.
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse pricing
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is free for partners in the Cloud Solution Provider programme.
Vendor pricing pageTenvara pricing
One subscription, per technician or per endpoint, hosted or self-hosted, with every feature in every plan.
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Microsoft 365 Lighthouse vs Tenvara: FAQ
Yes. A leaver runs ordered steps now or at a set time, such as 17:30 on their last day, and every step is logged and can be undone where Microsoft allows.
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Comparison based on publicly available information as of September 2026. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse 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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