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Site creation settings in Office 365 and SharePoint

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

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?

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

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....

What is an Office 365 Group

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...