The person behind Corp Collaboration

Enterprise Microsoft 365 experience, made practical for growing businesses.

I’m Andre van Zyl, a Cape Town-based Microsoft 365 and collaboration specialist with more than 15 years of enterprise IT experience.

Andre van Zyl, founder of Corp Collaboration
Andre van ZylFounder · Microsoft 365 & Collaboration Specialist

My approach

Big-business discipline without big-business complexity.

My day-to-day work is in large, distributed enterprise environments where reliability, access control, governance, documentation and clear change planning matter. I created Corp Collaboration to make that same structured approach accessible to small and medium businesses.

I help business owners get Microsoft 365 working as a connected platform—not a collection of licences. That means professional email, sensible access, clear Teams workspaces, organised SharePoint sites, dependable OneDrive use and an environment that can be supported as the company grows.

You work directly with me throughout the engagement. I explain the options in plain language, document the important decisions and recommend what fits the business instead of adding unnecessary complexity.

Experience you can use

Hands-on across the Microsoft 365 environment

My background combines collaboration services, identity, hybrid infrastructure and operational support—useful when a problem crosses more than one admin portal.

Microsoft Teams & Teams Phone

Teams governance, policies, meetings, external collaboration, Direct Routing, Operator Connect, call queues, auto attendants and user migrations.

SharePoint & OneDrive

Site ownership, permissions, sharing, document structures, migrations, application access and practical governance.

Exchange Online

Day-to-day administration, mailboxes, groups, shared addresses, mail-flow troubleshooting and hybrid-environment coordination.

Identity & access

Microsoft Entra ID, administrator roles, user lifecycle, authentication dependencies and access-conscious tenant administration.

Migrations & change

Large-scale collaboration and voice migrations, number porting, cutover planning, testing, stakeholder communication and post-change support.

Operations & governance

Complex troubleshooting, root-cause thinking, standards, runbooks, documentation, mentoring and continuous improvement.

What you can expect

A senior specialist who stays involved.

Corp Collaboration is deliberately personal. The person who scopes the work is the same person who configures it, explains it and helps you maintain it.

Practical firstRecommendations must solve a real business need.
Secure and supportableAccess, ownership and long-term administration are considered from the start.
Clear communicationYou receive plain-language explanations, scope and documentation.
No unnecessary upsellingUse what fits your business now, with room to grow later.

Let’s talk Microsoft 365

Bring me the problem—not the technical wording.

Tell me what is slowing the business down, and I’ll help identify a practical way forward.

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