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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...
Office 365, SharePoint and Projects in the Construction Sector: Part One: The Problem
Across the construction sector, firms of all shapes and sizes make use of Office 365. In particular, SharePoint online is widely used due to its ease of use and comprehensive collaborative feature set that makes multi-party working, particularly with regards to the...
Microsoft Teams Provisioning Live
The Microsoft Teams Blog announced this week the general availability of 37 Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams. This allows organisations to deliver solutions for automating Microsoft Teams. Whether this is the bulk creation of Teams or implementing a consistent approach...
Building a SharePoint Site Directory in Office 365
ProvisionPoint 365. Workspace governance for Office 365. Organise your Sites, Groups and Teams with a SharePoint Site Directory.
Control who can Delete SharePoint Sites and Office 365 Groups
An important part of Lifecycle Management if Office 365 is control of how objects are deleted. This is because objects might be incorrectly or accidentally deleted. Therefore to address this problem ProvisionPoint 365 allows an authorised user to delete SharePoint...
Improving Microsoft Teams Governance with a provisioning solution
As announced at Ignite, Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business app in Microsoft history. Over 300,000 organisations now use Microsoft Teams as part of their Office 365 deployment. There are however a number of challenges with the Microsoft Teams...
ROI of a Site Provisioning Solution for Office 365
Office 365 is a great tool for managing documents, communications, and ideas. However, asking users to create or manage Office 365 objects can be loaded with risk and derailed by confusion. Many organisations have their IT teams make changes on behalf of their users,...