Adding an Approval Step to Microsoft Teams
One of the main governance challenges with Microsoft Teams is that by default every user in your organisation can create a new Team. While some believe that this will improve user adoption, we have seen several cases where this has led to significant information...
SharePoint Site Provisioning in Office 365
What is SharePoint site provisioning?SharePoint site provisioning is the process of creating and configuring SharePoint sites programmatically based on business requirements. A SharePoint site provisioning tool can help to control site sprawl and other governance...
Who should be able to create a SharePoint Site?
The question of who should be able to create SharePoint sites is one which has troubled SharePoint implementations for over 15 years. There are different opinions on the best approach and these opinions have changed as SharePoint has evolved. To further confuse the...
Visualise key resources when using SharePoint for Project Sites
ProvisionPoint recently announced a Person or Group column type for using on request forms for SharePoint sites, Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. There are several practical uses for this column type. One of these is to identify key resources on a project,...
No Governance for Microsoft Teams is a failure in IT Leadership
Microsoft Teams is the solution to all your problems. Users will find it really easy to adopt Microsoft Teams as it is incredibly straightforward to implement. These and other myths are what many CIOs and IT Directors have been told for most of the last year....
SharePoint, Office 365 and Projects in the Construction Sector: Part Two: Solving Governance Challenges
In the first post in this series, I described how organisations in the construction sector use Office 365 and SharePoint. I further explained there were many governance challenges faced by these organisations managing SharePoint project sites. In this second post, I...
Office 365, SharePoint and Projects in the Construction Sector: Part One: The Problem
Across the construction sector, firms of all shapes and sizes make use of Office 365. In particular, SharePoint online is widely used due to its ease of use and comprehensive collaborative feature set that makes multi-party working, particularly with regards to the...
Microsoft Teams Provisioning Live
The Microsoft Teams Blog announced this week the general availability of 37 Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams. This allows organisations to deliver solutions for automating Microsoft Teams. Whether this is the bulk creation of Teams or implementing a consistent approach...
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...