Assurance Articles

Thoughtless SharePoint Site Provisioning: The Hidden Cost of Convenience

In the age of rapid collaboration and cloud-first strategies, provisioning SharePoint sites has never been easier. But with great power comes great potential for chaos. When sites are created without proper analysis, planning, or governance, companies often find themselves buried under a mountain of sprawl, broken workflows, and compliance nightmares.

What’s new in Microsoft Security Copilot

Security and IT teams move fast - and so does Security Copilot. This month, we’re delivering powerful new capabilities that help security and IT professionals investigate threats, manage identities, and automate protection with greater speed and precision. From...

New tools for Security Copilot management and capacity planning

Last year, we launched Microsoft Security Copilot with a bold goal: to help organizations protect at the speed of AI. Since then, Security Copilot has been transforming how IT and security operations teams respond to threats and manage their environments. In fact,...

Smarter Prompts for Smarter Investigations: Dynamic Prompt Suggestions in Security Copilot

When a security analyst turns to an AI system for help—whether to hunt threats, investigate alerts, or triage incidents—the first step is usually a natural language prompt. But if that prompt is too vague, too general, or not aligned with the...

Agentic security your way: Build your own Security Copilot agents

Assurance, Service Delivery

Microsoft Security Copilot is redefining how security and IT teams operate. Today at Microsoft Secure, we’re...

SharePoint Copilot Governance and Beekeeping: A Buzz-Worthy Comparison

Assurance, Implementation, Service Delivery

🐝 SharePoint CoPilot Governance and Beekeeping: A Buzz-Worthy Comparison. In the world of digital collaboration, SharePoint is the hive—teeming with activity, rich with resources, and vital to collaboration. But just like a real hive, it doesn’t thrive on chaos. That’s where governance comes in. And oddly enough, the best way to understand SharePoint governance might just be… beekeeping.

Port, Pies and SharePoint Support

Assurance

Merry Christmas Everyone! As the seasonal period quickly approaches, the discussions concerning what happens to supporting SharePoint over the holiday either approaches, or has been covered, or even assumed. The Christmas period is of course where your SharePoint...

What is Microsoft Office System Service Delivery?

Assurance

This quick article is going to explain the basis of Microsoft Office Systems Service Delivery (centered a little on SharePoint, ahem) and why it is so important to have in your organization. Also, check out my book (on this link) which covers a lot more on this topic....

Cloud Solution Sustainment – A SharePoint Service Delivery perspective

Assurance, Automation, Microsoft 365

I was privileged to be speaking at the Workflow for Everyone, Everywhere conference hosted by Nintex at Microsoft UK in London on Wednesday the 16th of April. I shared the stage with Pete Hampton, Productivity Specialist Sales Manager at Microsoft, Nintex and an elite...

Port, Pies and SharePoint Support

Assurance, Automation

Providing a sustained and good SharePoint service means providing adequate SharePoint support - and that is not simply for 'work-days'. As Christmas looms, there needs to be ample preparation done to ensure that those charged with providing SharePoint support over the...

Analysing Site Activity in SharePoint 2013

Assurance, Random Muslings

Tracking site usage is a very important method of identifying and helping sustain user adoption of a SharePoint 2013 site. Using site usage statistics can help prove the take up of a new SharePoint site, identify shortfalls in the design, and indicates how searches...

Opening Mind Manager Files in SharePoint

Assurance, Random Muslings

Summary Ok, time for a quick article as I am such a Mind Manager fan (you've probably have guessed because of the amount of Mind Manager outputs on my site)! The challenge for those using Mind Manager in SharePoint is that whenever they attempt to open a file in...

SharePoint – Building a Project Management solution in six steps

Assurance, Microsoft 365

I was asked to describe how a small team, who has never seen SharePoint or Project before, could take on a SharePoint look at Project Management tools focused Information Worker level. By doing this, a Project Management solution could be created whereby solving...

Creating a SharePoint Communication Message Framework

Assurance

One of the most difficult areas of delivering a SharePoint solution is identifying not just who should be targetted for User Adoption, but, going forward, how to sustain that User Adoption through communication. Reasons include rapid changes in the business culture,...

SharePoint 2013 Helpdesk Site Available

Assurance, Random Muslings

I have created a basic SharePoint 2013 helpdesk template which you can try out, modify and apply as a helper to their SharePoint support desks. The reason for supplying this is to (a) give an understanding of the ability of SharePoint to provide basic helpdesk...

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