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Help employees transition to hybrid work using a new SharePoint site template and end-user training

The pandemic has fundamentally changed how we all live, learn, and work. As we begin to recover from the pandemic and plan our return to the office, many organizations are rethinking the future of work: Over 80% of managers surveyed expect to have more flexible...

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 114

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In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by UK-based Office...

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 113

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Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 112

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Designing SharePoint sites with beautiful headers

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One of my favorite quotes about design comes from Mad Men. This quote says a lot about how we think of site headers for SharePoint Online and how we create layouts. “Make it simple, but significant.” – Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 6, “Waldorf...

Application Guard for Office is now generally available!

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As of today, Application Guard for Office is now generally available. Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your users’ computer and data. To help protect your users,...

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 110

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Pull on your SharePoint sweater backgrounds for Microsoft Teams

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‘Tis the season! Did you grab a Microsoft-themed sweater? Sold out? Don’t worry. We’ve created three SharePoint-themed winter holiday sweaters to back you up – in Microsoft Teams, or to use as wallpaper on your desktop. Make your...

How to create Microsoft 365/O365 Group with Teams using Graph API.

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Seems creating Microsoft 365/O365 Group via CSOM not working. If you try to use SharePoint Client Side Object Model(CSOM) you might run into following exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException HResult=0x80131500 Message=The web template...

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Setting Edit Rights in a SharePoint Site – Approach with Caution!

There are risks of granting Edit rights broadly. This article underscores the importance of assigning Edit rights selectively and implementing controls such as versioning and approval workflows to safeguard critical documents.

Forms and Process Design Importance

Form and Process (workflow) are very popular provisions for Teams and SharePoint productivity. And it really doesn't matter which tools use to build these; great ones are Nintex Forms and Microsoft Forms. Both are modern, state of the art enterprise products which are...

SharePoint Requirements Analysis Guide

SharePoint User Requirements Analysis is vital; the corner stone in developing, deploying and providing a properly managed SharePoint environment. Because User Requirements is a very important area, you must have on board the relevant people resources that are...

Content Management Systems – Principles and Concepts of Information Assurance

A major challenge in businesses is a misconception, that data is 100% secure concerning any part of its data processing within that business. This data processing concerns the content management lifecycle; from creation, to storage, to distribution, to workflow and...

Workflow Service Delivery Options

This article takes a service delivery examination concerning workflow provisions around SharePoint, Office365, Windows Azure to help you understand the implications there are for organisations needing to improve business process automation, collaboration and...

SharePoint Service Level Agreement Guide

Support service development for SharePoint is crucial to ensure sustained SharePoint Governance and User Adoption. I had the situation where in building a SharePoint support service that a customer needed the provision of support to be handled differently for a newly...

SharePoint and the Internet of Things

Bold statement time. The Internet is a collection of machines - and there is more data generated by machines than humans. IOT (Internet Of Things) is connected devices providing data which will simplify, enhance, and enrich our lives. Already connected devices are...

SharePoint Governance Guide

Not a hardware, software, or people resource solution. It is an organizational strategy and methodology for documenting and implementing business rules and controls related to your client’s data. It brings cross-functional teams together to identify data issues...

SharePoint Delivery Planning Guide

As part of my book, SharePoint 2013 User Adoption Planning and Governance, below is a SharePoint Delivery Detail Plan. This plan encompasses the tasks required to deliver a SharePoint solution from Envision through to User Adoption.

SharePoint Archive Planning Guide

History has a way of repeating itself. Thankfully, when we learn from the mistakes of the past, we are able to address new challenges more quickly and in smarter ways. In the early 1990s, email emerged as a collaboration mechanism, speeding up communications between...