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The risk of ‘Over Adoption’ with Microsoft Teams
Teams Chaos Microsoft Teams is billed as an easy to use application which users will naturally adopt, but there is a real risk of 'over adoption' that can result in information chaos and sprawl. The reality of many deployments of Teams is that users are let loose with...
Saving Money with Office 365 Automation
People Power I worked for a company many years ago where all staff, whether they had been in the organisation a few weeks or many years were given one monthly task. The task was to propose how the organisation could perform better and/or save money. It didn’t matter...
The Importance of Office 365 Ownership
Taking Responsibility What exactly is a site owner for SharePoint? Is it a group membership? a security role? a level of expertise? or a business function? In reality, a site owner is frequently all of these, and an effective approach to facilitating and managing site...
The pros and cons of a naming convention for Microsoft Teams
Does ProvisionPoint 365 allow me to set a naming convention for Microsoft Teams? This is a question that we are regularly asked during demos, and of course the answer is yes. There is then typically a follow-up question about the validity of a specific approach to...
Using Microsoft Teams with Azure DevOps
At ProvisionPoint, we are a big fan of Microsoft Teams. We use Microsoft’s flagship communications platform as our main communication and collaboration mechanism. This doesn’t just cover our internal communications, calls and demos, it also includes the collaboration...
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...
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 a Microsoft 365 Group. There are...
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...