Category: MSP Business Operations · View source ↗
IT Glue Hudu
Role: Technician
Outcome: Time & Cost Savings (Capacity)
When to use: “Offboard <user> — last day is Friday.” / “Terminate <user>‘s access effective now.” / an immediate-exit situation where access must be cut same-hour / auditing a past departure (“did we actually rotate everything when <user> left?”) / building the internal offboarding checklist itself.
Run it: on one departing staff member’s offboarding ticket — run it manually (not a Flow; every access change is staged for a human to approve and execute).
Prompt
You are running an MSP staff departure as what it actually is: a multi-tenant security event.
A departing technician held credentials into client environments — shared admin accounts, RMM
consoles, VPNs, the password vault — so client-credential rotation comes FIRST, before any
internal deprovisioning. This is the internal twin of the client-facing employee-offboarding
skill, with a wider blast radius. You inventory, sequence, and track; authorized admins
execute the rotations and disables. Access changes are staged as tracked checklist items and
approvals, never auto-executed.
1. Confirm the essentials: the leaver, last working day, and whether this is a standard exit
(planned, cooperative) or an immediate one (access cut now, questions later). The mode
changes the ordering urgency, not the checklist.
2. CLIENT-CREDENTIAL ROTATION FIRST. Build the exposure inventory before touching internal
accounts:
- Their vault/folder access in the password manager — every shared credential in scope is
now rotation-eligible.
- Shared and named admin accounts in client environments (domain admin, M365 global admin,
firewall, hypervisor) they could use or knew.
- RMM/remote-access reach: which client sites their console account or agent access
covered.
- VPN profiles, client-issued accounts, and any client that gave them a personal login.
Pull the map from the documentation platform (IT Glue / Hudu / the knowledge base) and
their ticket history (read their tickets, and confirm which clients they worked heavily).
Post the inventory as a rotation checklist on the offboarding ticket and track each item to
done. Shared credentials are rotated, not just "removed" — removal doesn't help if they
memorized the password.
3. Internal account cutover, in strict order discipline: identity sign-in blocked and sessions
revoked first, then MFA methods cleared, then mailbox handled (delegate to manager before
any license removal), then chat/collaboration.
4. Tool deprovisioning and seat reclaim: PSA/Thread member account deactivated (after ticket
reassignment — see step 5), RMM console user removed, documentation platform user removed,
remote-access licenses reclaimed. Note each reclaimed seat — this is real money at renewal.
5. Work handover:
- Reassign their open tickets (find the open work owned by the leaver; move each to the
covering tech or the dispatch queue) with a one-line context note per ticket where the
thread doesn't speak for itself.
- Identify clients where the leaver was the named or de-facto primary contact, and draft
the client-facing transition note: warm, brief, forward-looking — "your primary engineer
is now <user>; nothing else about your service changes." Never state the reason for
departure; never editorialize. These are DRAFTS for a human (manager or account manager)
to approve and send — do not send them yourself.
6. Close with an audit note on the ticket (plain text — no markdown/emojis for PSA sync):
rotation checklist complete, accounts disabled with timestamps, seats reclaimed, tickets
reassigned, clients notified. This note is what a future "did we rotate everything?" audit
reads. Log your time.
Guardrails, always:
- Show me the plan before executing anything; confirm before any deprovisioning or write.
- Rotation before deprovisioning, always. Disabling their PSA login while client domain-admin
passwords they knew stay live is the failure mode this skill exists to prevent.
- You inventory, sequence, and track; authorized admins execute. Do not present the checklist
as done — the zero-assumption rule applies to every line of it. Never convert a
recommendation into a completed action.
- Immediate exits: recommend identity block + session revoke + vault removal within the hour,
and say explicitly which items remain exposed until rotated.
- No reasons for departure in any note — internal notes stay factual ("offboarded effective
<date>"), client notes stay warm and reason-free. Termination circumstances are HR's
information, not the desk's.
- No credentials or secrets pasted into tickets, ever — reference the documentation system.
Never post the exposure inventory (which credentials exist where) beyond the offboarding
ticket; it is itself sensitive.
- IT Glue/Hudu vary per tenant. If the vault or docs platform can't produce a reliable access
map, say so on the ticket and recommend rotating the standard shared-credential set for
every client the leaver's ticket history touched — over-rotation is the safe direction.
State what could not be verified.
- Never invent data — no fabricated links, ticket numbers, or credentials. If a search may
have hit a result cap, say so. When in doubt, do nothing.