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A behind the scenes look at how we secure the Microsoft 365 platform

Hey everyone, and welcome to this first post on a topic that we will be talking a lot more about over time! Microsoft 365 is one of the world’s largest enterprise and consumer cloud services, and customer trust is the foundation of our business: customers...

New enhancements to Office 365 Message Encryption

Microsoft 365

We are excited to announce a few new enhancements to Office 365 Message Encryption that help broaden protection and simplify reading protected messages. Updates include: Support for PDF attachments Support for Shared Mailboxes Mac prelicensing Please...

Office 365 Groups @ Ignite – Recap

Implementation, Microsoft 365

Office 365 Groups is the membership service that drives teamwork and powers collaboration across Microsoft 365. With Office 365 Groups, a group of people can access and share a collection of collaboration resources, such as a shared Outlook...

Microsoft Ignite The Tour 2019/2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream sessions

Microsoft 365

Our industry-leading conference is hitting the road—and coming to a city near you. You don’t want to miss the very latest in cloud technologies and developer tools with guest speakers, industry experts, and more. Get on the list today! This blog covers all...

SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 60

Microsoft 365

In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development. In addition to drawing attention to the latest...

How to prevent and expose “unknown unknown” threats

My Blogs

Check out the joint Microsoft and Morphisec webinar next Tuesday, November 19, at 10am EST where two rockstar women in cybersecurity will show you how to how to prevent and expose "unknown unknown" threats through an integration with Morphisec's Moving Target...

Ignite 2019 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream and related technology sessions

Microsoft 365

"Prepare the umbrella before it rains." – Malay Proverb [Update 11/10/19 | many sessions are now available on-demand; same links as below; video embedded into each session page] Let technology rain. With less than two weeks until Microsoft...

New functionality to make it easier to customize, manage, and secure Office 365 ProPlus

Implementation, Microsoft 365

At Microsoft, we’re committed to protecting your data and helping your organization stay current and secure in today’s fast-moving, complex technology environment. And we’ve designed new innovations for Office 365 ProPlus to do just that. As...

Speed up time to detect and respond to user compromise and limit breach scope with Office 365 ATP

My Blogs

Attackers are driven by the desire to cause damage or build their brand. They focus on gaining access to sensitive data to expose it, use it, sell it or hold it for ransom. Or they focus on impacting critical infrastructure – whatever will increase their bottom...

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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...