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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...
Webinar: Microsoft Teams Governance and Lifecycle Management
Description Microsoft Teams is the new hub for teamwork and collaboration in Office 365. It is an excellent tool for user empowerment, with lots of flexibility, but there also many governance challenges. How can you ensure that Teams are created in a consistent...
Webinar: Improve Governance of Microsoft Teams
Description Microsoft Teams is the new hub for teamwork and collaboration in Office 365. It is an excellent tool for user empowerment, with lots of flexibility, but there also many governance challenges. How can you ensure that Teams are created in a consistent...
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...