Microsoft continues to adjust security around the “sharing” features in SharePoint Online. One recent update provides a feature in the “Classic” SharePoint Online Administration console to adjust sharing for individual site collection so non-owners (Full Control role) cannot share files or sites. The interface is a bit confusing, however. At first glance, it looks like [...]
Many clients and prospective clients ask me: What Office 365 (O365) applications should we use in our business? That’s a hard question to answer, because every organization has its own business processes, culture, experience in existing Microsoft applications, and familiarity in using a cloud-based system. In my experience, an organization will have much better adoption [...]
I recently ran into a scenario where we assisted a client in setting up an O365 Trial Tenant while they worked out licensing with their volume reseller and several internal application compatibility issues. We set up AD Connect, synced their user accounts, and waited for licenses to be associated from their Enterprise Agreement. And waited. [...]
PowerApps is one of the simplest, most useful tools available to Microsoft users. It allows you to customize Office 365 and Dynamics 365 with powerful apps that span productivity and business data. You can tailor SharePoint Online with PowerApps, use it with Microsoft Teams, and build applications on Dynamics 365. The possibilities are endless! Register [...]
It saves all your edits and you may not know it! It changes your original behind the scenes! Run away, run away! Just Kidding! Content auto-save is a feature that automatically saves real time edits to Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). Auto-save was introduced with Office Online, and impacts files stored in Office 365 [...]
SharePoint Online is a powerful platform for information sharing, collaboration, document management and business workflow. But where can you start to get the most out of SharePoint for your organization’s needs? Our HR Portal solution focuses on streamlining common business processes to alleviate pressure on your human resources department. Release the power of SharePoint Online [...]
Modern pages represent Microsoft’s updates to make SharePoint Online more responsive and browser-compatible. As part of a staged reworking of SharePoint Online, Modern pages are still a limited set of functionality in existing SharePoint deployments. In this blog, we will look at where Modern pages stand as of this writing. One important item of note [...]
Migration from SharePoint on-premises to SharePoint Online is typically conducted using a migration tool. This is because Office 365 (O365) SharePoint Online does not support the “Database Attach” approach used in on-premises upgrades or migrations. There are a number of 3rd-party migration tools available. Popular ones include: Metalogix Essentials for O365 (https://www.metalogix.com/product/essentials-office-365), which provides a [...]
Microsoft’s Office 365 Security and Compliance Center provides a broad toolset for identification and protection of business content. One of the really powerful capabilities is Sensitive Information Types which allow organizations to identify specific content based on matching patterns of words, characters, and spacing within documents, emails, and conversations. For fast adoption, Microsoft provides a [...]
If you haven’t figured out already, Microsoft Teams uses existing O365 applications in the background to provide mail, chat, and file management functionality. But where exactly is the data stored? We recently had a prospective client ask this exact question. Their concern was driven by the need to meet content governance compliance rules in their [...]
