Microsoft Inspire 2019 – The Year of Teams?
Vegas Baby!It is the middle of July and many people in the Microsoft ecosystem are in Las Vegas for Microsoft's annual partner hyper-summit, 'Inspire' (nee 'Worldwide Partner Conference').No doubt there will be a huge amount of noise coming from the conference, but I...
Do you really need an “Intranet-in-a-box” solution for SharePoint?
Office 365 Overload There appears to be an influx of Intranet-in-a-box products for SharePoint, not surprising considering SharePoint dominates the corporate intranet market and the fact that the out-of-the-box SharePoint features and functionality never quite meet...
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?
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...
What is the lifecycle of a Microsoft Team?
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...
Intelligent Modern SharePoint Site Classification
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...
Delegate the permission to create new Document Libraries in SharePoint
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...
Should every user be able to create a Microsoft Team?
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...
