Why would you create a SharePoint Site without an Office 365 Group?
People who are new to the world of SharePoint may imagine that Sites only come in one form, which is the Modern Group connected Team Site. In fact, there is a range of other types of SharePoint Sites which can be created without an Office 365 Group. There are several...
OneDrive Grows Up, Gains Enterprise Security
Personal Governance Governance is not just about how your systems and services are managed and administrated, it is also about how the information held within your services is used, controlled and stored. In an announcement this week (June 25th, 2019) Microsoft has...
Why your users will hate Teams and what you can do about it
Over the years I have been working with SharePoint I have lost count of the number of people who tell me they hate it. This includes users on a training course, stakeholders at first meetings, family members and even people in the pub. The last one has happened...
Can I add guests users to Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft recently shared a list of Top 10 Microsoft Teams questions which they have been asked as part of Microsoft Ignite | The Tour. Several stood out for us because they were related to the governance of Microsoft Teams. In this post we will focus on the question...
What is the lifecycle of a Microsoft Team?
There are several challenges with deploying Microsoft Teams to an organisation and one of the most significant is how to avoid an endless sprawl of Teams. One key component of this particular challenge is when to archive or dispose of a specific Team.By solving the...
Intelligent Modern SharePoint Site Classification
In Office 365 there is the option to apply a classification to Modern SharePoint Site which will define the sensitivity of your site data. This classification is visible to users of the SharePoint Site, the associated Office 365 Group and if one is created the...
Delegate the permission to create new Document Libraries in SharePoint
There are many different models for how permissions and site ownership are applied in SharePoint Online. For many organisations once a SharePoint site is created owners of that site can fully administer it. Through training and communication programmes it is expected...
Should every user be able to create a Microsoft Team?
Since the arrival of Microsoft Teams in the Office 365 ecosystem, there has been much confusion and debate about how to successfully implement the software to the best interests of the company. This confusion has come about due to the lack of forethought of how to...
Building a Governance Center in Microsoft Teams using an org-wide Team and ProvisionPoint
An org-wide Team is a great place to communicate to all users about governance for Microsoft Teams and Office 365. It can be made available to all users within an organisation and is part of Microsoft Teams rather than a different application. Furthermore, this...
Disabling the creation of Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams
One of the significant governance challenges in Office 365 is that everyone can create Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams and Modern SharePoint Sites. In a previous post, we detailed the different creation setting for Classic and Modern SharePoint Sites. While these...
