Microsoft
Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Exchange Online, Teams and SharePoint. The platform most of our clients' identity, mail and files sit on.
Partners & technology
The technology we work with, and what we actually claim.
A row of vendor logos tells you very little on its own. This page separates the platforms we build on from formal partner status — because they are different things, and only one of them can be verified.
- Vendor-neutral by default
- No badges we have not earned
- Specified for your environment
- Platforms we work withlisted in full below
- Formal accreditationslisted separately, and honestly
- Chosen per clientnot per our margin
- You own the licencesregistered in your name
Technologies we work with
- Microsoft
- SOPHOS
- Acronis
- HPE
- 3CX
- UBIQUITI
- veeam
Technologies we work with
The platforms behind the services
We work with these day to day, and we will explain why one suits your environment better than another. Working with a product is a statement about experience, not about partner status.
Sophos
Endpoint protection and firewalls, where a client's environment suits it better than the Microsoft security stack.
Veeam
Backup and replication for servers, virtual machines and Microsoft 365 data.
Acronis
Endpoint and server backup with off-site copies, particularly for smaller estates.
Ubiquiti
Business Wi-Fi, switching and routing. Well suited to hospitality and multi-site sites where coverage and cost both matter.
HPE
Server and storage hardware where on-premise infrastructure is still the right answer.
3CX
Business telephony, where a client needs more than Teams calling provides.
Business endpoints
Business-grade laptops and desktops from the major manufacturers, specified for the role and supplied with local warranty.
How we choose
Vendor-neutral, which sometimes costs us money.
Providers with deep vendor commitments tend to recommend whatever they are committed to. We would rather recommend what fits, which occasionally means telling a client that the capability they were about to buy is already included in the licences they hold.
- We recommend against what you already own before proposing something new
- Equipment and software are specified for the site and the role, not for our convenience
- Licences, domains and tenants are registered in your name, not ours
- You can buy hardware elsewhere if you prefer — we will still support it
- Where a product is genuinely the wrong fit, we will say so and explain why
- Nothing is proposed that we would not be willing to support afterwards
Questions worth asking any IT provider
- Whose name is on the licence?If it is the provider's, leaving them becomes considerably harder.
- Do you make margin on this?A fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than an evasion.
- What would you use instead?A provider who has only one answer to every problem is telling you something.
- Do we already own this?Surprisingly often, the answer is yes and nobody had checked.
Formal partnerships & accreditations
What we are formally accredited for
Kept deliberately separate from the list above, because a logo and an accreditation are not the same claim.
We do not currently claim any formal vendor partnership or accreditation.
Displaying a vendor's logo is not the same as holding partner status with them, and plenty of websites in our industry blur the two. We would rather this section be empty and accurate. If we take on a formal accreditation, it will appear here with the level and the date, and you will be able to verify it with the vendor.
What this does not mean
It does not mean we lack experience with these platforms — we configure and support them every day, and we can talk in detail about how any of them would work in your environment. It only means we are not claiming a badge we have not earned.
If it matters to your procurement
Some tenders require suppliers to hold specific vendor accreditations. Tell us early and we will give you a straight answer about where we stand, rather than letting you find out late.
Why the distinction matters
A logo wall is not evidence.
Almost every IT provider displays the same set of vendor logos, usually under a heading implying partnership. Most of the time it means the provider has used the product. That is worth knowing, but it is not a credential, and presenting it as one makes the genuinely accredited harder to identify. We would rather be plain and let you compare properly.
- We work with itmeans experience, daily
- We are accreditedmeans verifiable status
- We keep them apartso you can tell which is which
Questions
Questions about technology and partners
Are you a Microsoft Partner?
We manage Microsoft 365 tenants for clients across Portugal and the UK every day, and we configure them against Microsoft security baselines. We do not claim a formal partner designation on this website, because we would rather state only what we can evidence. If formal status matters to your procurement, ask us directly and we will give you a precise answer.
Why show vendor logos at all, then?
Because they answer a genuine question: what will my environment actually be built on. Knowing that we work with Microsoft 365, Ubiquiti and Veeam tells you something useful about what we would propose. The heading on that band says "technologies we work with" rather than "partners" for exactly this reason.
Can we buy our own hardware?
Yes. We will advise on specification, and we will support business-grade equipment you buy elsewhere. Buying through us usually gets you local warranty, devices pre-registered to your tenant so they configure themselves on first sign-in, and one supplier to chase — but it is your choice, not a condition of the service.
Do you make money on the products you recommend?
On hardware and licences that you buy through us, yes — that is normal for any reseller, and it is how procurement is funded. What we will not do is let it decide the recommendation. If the right answer is something we make nothing on, or something you already own, that is the answer you will get. Ask us about margin on any specific quote and we will tell you.
Whose name are our licences in?
Yours. Domains, Microsoft tenants and licence subscriptions are registered to your organisation, not to CaminhoIT. This matters most on the day you might want to leave — providers who register your assets to themselves make that considerably harder, and we have had to unpick it for clients arriving from elsewhere.
What if we already use something not on this list?
Tell us what it is. This list is what we work with routinely, not an exhaustive statement of what we will touch. In practice we support plenty of line-of-business applications by working with their vendors. Where something is genuinely outside what we can support properly, we will say so rather than take it on and do it badly.
Ready to get started?
Ask us what we would actually recommend.
Tell us about your environment and we will tell you what we would build it on, and why — including where the answer is that you already own it.