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Branding Office 365 Groups and Modern SharePoint Sites
There are a number of challenges with allowing user self-service for Office 365. One of those challenges is branding Office 365 Groups and SharePoint Sites. Natively a random Theme will be applied applied to a SharePoint Site. Furthermore, a basic logo will be set...
Organising Office 365
The flat structure of Sites in Office 365 challenges previous thinking. This is because we are used to building hierarchies. Whether that be SharePoint Sub Sites, Folders in Network Drives or Folders in Outlook. As a result many organisations are now asking how to...
Configuration options for Site Addresses and Office 365 Group Email
One part of a successful User Adoption strategy for Office 365 is allowing users to request SharePoint Sites. However, organisations want to ensure the correct rules are used for the Site Address . This is because with Modern SharePoint Sites the Site Address is also...
More Reasons Why Your Office 365 Rollout Could be Seen as a Failure
We are always interested in seeing what other Solution Providers in the Microsoft Cloud space are thinking. One that I keenly follow is Brighter Days, a small boutique consultancy over in beautiful New Zealand. Founded a couple of years ago by Lee Stevens, a relocated...
The Modern Site Conundrum
What type of site should I be creating in Office 365? Until a few years ago it was simple, you would create a sub-site within an existing Site Collection. This “Classic” Site model is something SharePoint Folk have been working with for years and are comfortable...
Storing Provisioning Properties in your SharePoint Sites
When ProvisionPoint 365 creates a site, it keeps lots of information about that site to help you track and manage it later on. You can access this information in the Site Directory and Timeline. Site Properties We're pleased to say that now when ProvisionPoint 365...
ProvisionPoint 365 Branding
You can change the branding or theme used in ProvisionPoint 365 to suit your corporate brand. When you first sign up to ProvisionPoint 365 it will look something like this: We love orange but maybe not everyone does. Wouldn't it be nice if you could choose the...
ProvisionPoint 365 Overlay
ProvisionPoint 365 can do much more than just create new SharePoint sites. It can keep everyone informed and allow the delegation of Actions without granting users administrative rights to a Site. We wanted to allow our customers to be able to access these features in...
PnP Template Support in ProvisionPoint 365
To enable greater flexibility for those who need it, ProvisionPoint 365 supports OfficeDev PnP provisioning templates. OfficeDev PnP (Patterns & Practices) is an open source initiative spearheaded by Microsoft to build a comprehensive schema and provisioning...