Building a SharePoint Site Directory in Office 365
A custom request form can be set in ProvisionPoint when a user requests a SharePoint Site, Office 365 Group or Microsoft Team. This is a great feature but what can you do with this data? The answer is you can push this data into a central SharePoint Site Directory...
Control who can Delete SharePoint Sites and Office 365 Groups
An important part of Lifecycle Management if Office 365 is control of how objects are deleted. This is because objects might be incorrectly or accidentally deleted. Therefore to address this problem ProvisionPoint allows an authorised user to delete SharePoint...
Improving Microsoft Teams Governance with a provisioning solution
As announced at Ignite, Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business app in Microsoft history. Over 300,000 organisations now use Microsoft Teams as part of their Office 365 deployment. There are however a number of challenges with the Microsoft Teams...
ROI of a Site Provisioning Solution for Office 365
Office 365 is a great tool for managing documents, communications, and ideas. However, asking users to create or manage Office 365 objects can be loaded with risk and derailed by confusion. Many organisations have their IT teams make changes on behalf of their users,...
Branding Office 365 Groups and Modern SharePoint Sites
There are a number of challenges with allowing user self-service for Office 365. One of those challenges is branding Office 365 Groups and SharePoint Sites. Natively a random Theme will be applied applied to a SharePoint Site. Furthermore, a basic logo will be set...
Organising Office 365
The flat structure of Sites in Office 365 challenges previous thinking. This is because we are used to building hierarchies. Whether that be SharePoint Sub Sites, Folders in Network Drives or Folders in Outlook. As a result many organisations are now asking how to...
Configuration options for Site Addresses and Office 365 Group Email
One part of a successful User Adoption strategy for Office 365 is allowing users to request SharePoint Sites. However, organisations want to ensure the correct rules are used for the Site Address . This is because with Modern SharePoint Sites the Site Address is also...
More Reasons Why Your Office 365 Rollout Could be Seen as a Failure
We are always interested in seeing what other Solution Providers in the Microsoft Cloud space are thinking. One that I keenly follow is Brighter Days, a small boutique consultancy over in beautiful New Zealand. Founded a couple of years ago by Lee Stevens, a relocated...
The Modern Site Conundrum
What type of site should I be creating in Office 365? Until a few years ago it was simple, you would create a sub-site within an existing Site Collection. This “Classic” Site model is something SharePoint Folk have been working with for years and are comfortable...
Storing Provisioning Properties in your SharePoint Sites
When ProvisionPoint creates a site, it keeps lots of information about that site to help you track and manage it later on. You can access this information in the Site Directory and Timeline. Site Properties We're pleased to say that now when ProvisionPoint creates a...