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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....
Visualise key resources when using SharePoint for Project Sites
ProvisionPoint recently announced a Person or Group column type for using on request forms for SharePoint sites, Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. There are several practical uses for this column type. One of these is to identify key resources on a project,...
No Governance for Microsoft Teams is a failure in IT Leadership
Microsoft Teams is the solution to all your problems. Users will find it really easy to adopt Microsoft Teams as it is incredibly straightforward to implement. These and other myths are what many CIOs and IT Directors have been told for most of the last year....
What is an Office 365 Group
There are two different ways to describe an Office 365 Group. Firstly, in a purely technical sense, an Office 365 Group is an object in Active Directory which controls access to several related services. Managing the membership of an Office 365 Group is like any other...
SharePoint, Office 365 and Projects in the Construction Sector: Part Two: Solving Governance Challenges
In the first post in this series, I described how organisations in the construction sector use Office 365 and SharePoint. I further explained there were many governance challenges faced by these organisations managing SharePoint project sites. In this second post, I...