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Webinar: Governance and Lifecycle Management for 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 and lifecycle challenges. In this webinar Product Manager, Peter Baddeley...
Delegating Actions for SharePoint Sites
ProvisionPoint 365 is not just about the provisioning of SharePoint Sites, Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. An owner of a particular object can use ProvisionPoint 365 to perform various actions. These actions can include creating new Lists, Adding/Removing...
Provisioning SharePoint Communication Sites
ProvisionPoint 365 is not just limited to provisioning Modern Team Sites and Office 365 Groups. Organisations which use ProvisionPoint 365 can manage a wide range of Classic and Modern SharePoint Sites, including Communication Sites. There are several good reasons for...
Microsoft Teams Governance: Control settings applied to new Teams
When a new Team is created in Microsoft Teams, all of the settings are enabled by default. These settings include members being able to add apps, guests creating new channels and using fun GIFs in chat. While this might not always be a problem, in some business...
Microsoft Flow is not a Governance solution for Office 365
It’s time to get realistic about the fact that Microsoft Flow is not the right tool for delivering governance in Office 365. Flow is undoubtedly an excellent tool for Citizen Developers to build approval and notification processes. However, the fact remains that Flow...
Site creation settings in Office 365 and SharePoint
At ProvisionPoint we are frequently asked about the various settings in the SharePoint Admin Center for Site Creation. Therefore, in this post, I will examine these settings in more detail and how they can be used to control how users create SharePoint Sites.Site...
Adding an Approval Step to Microsoft Teams
One of the main governance challenges with Microsoft Teams is that by default every user in your organisation can create a new Team. While some believe that this will improve user adoption, we have seen several cases where this has led to significant information...
SharePoint Site Provisioning in Office 365
What is SharePoint site provisioning?SharePoint site provisioning is the process of creating and configuring SharePoint sites programmatically based on business requirements. A SharePoint site provisioning tool can help to control site sprawl and other governance...
Who should be able to create a SharePoint Site?
The question of who should be able to create SharePoint sites is one which has troubled SharePoint implementations for over 15 years. There are different opinions on the best approach and these opinions have changed as SharePoint has evolved. To further confuse the...
Create Office 365 Groups
There are several experiences through which users can create Office 365 Groups. These experiences for creating Groups include Outlook, SharePoint, Planner, Yammer and Microsoft Teams. Dependant on the experience used for creating, the type of Group created will vary....