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Mastering Microsoft 365: The Essential Guide to Lifecycle Policies
What is a Lifecycle Policy? Lifecycle policies are a strategic approach to managing the duration and relevance of information within Microsoft 365 environments. It helps keep information current by setting unique expiry dates for different types of content, ensuring...
How to use Sensitivity Labels with Microsoft Teams
Understanding Sensitivity Labels Sensitivity Labels are a powerful feature in Microsoft Teams that allow users to classify and protect their data based on its sensitivity. These labels help organizations ensure that sensitive information is handled appropriately and...
Is your SharePoint and Teams content Copilot ready?
Copilot and AI How to successfully adopt AI is one of the most important challenges facing CIOs this year. There are several key challenges, including this shared by Microsoft, “Copilot uses your existing permissions and policies to deliver the most relevant...
Understand Sharing Links in Microsoft 365
What are Sharing Links? Sharing links in Microsoft 365 are URLs that allow users to share files and folders stored in Microsoft 365, including files in SharePoint and OneDrive. These links can be used to grant access to documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and...
Implementing Best Practices for Auditing M365 and Teams
Discover the top strategies for effectively auditing M365 Teams to ensure optimal performance and security.Understanding the Importance of Auditing M365 Teams Auditing M365 Teams is crucial for maintaining data security, compliance, and overall performance within the...
A beginner’s guide to Microsoft 365 governance with ProvisionPoint.
Governance is perhaps the most misunderstood concept in a deployment of Microsoft. Too frequently it is forgotten altogether. Further, many view governance to be about stopping users from doing things. In fact, governance is the complete opposite, it is about...
Custom SharePoint Theme: How to create and upload
Whenever I go about creating SharePoint Sites they often have a specific purpose in mind, for example, a department Site or projects. For a lot of organisations, the Site creation also needs to think about the branding or colour themes for the Site as well. Microsoft...
When should a Microsoft Team be archived?
During the rapid rollout of Microsoft Teams during the pandemic, not many organisations stopped to think about when a Team being created should be archived. The focus was ensuring staff could continue to work and not any perceived issues with too many Teams. The...
Shared Channels in Teams: How will you use them?
In our last post, we outlined how Teams Shared Channels are configured. This included considerations for Azure B2B Direct Connect. In this post, we will explore how organisations plan to use Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams. We have taken feedback from our customers...
Microsoft Teams Shared Channels: Configuration
Microsoft announced that Teams Shared Channels would become generally available in August 2022. Shared Channels enable a Teams Owner to create and share a Channel with users who are not part of that Team. These users can either be internal or external to the...