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SharePoint and the emergence of the Data Scientist

As the use of content management systems evolve with users adding more, ahem, "content", the organizations accountable for those content systems will need to ensure that they build in people resources who can manage that content, and particularly people who can find...

Data protection beyond backup and recovery with Office 365

Implementation, Microsoft 365

Protecting your data against file corruption , data loss, and malicious intent is a top priority for Microsoft, and an integral part of the Office 365 service. Our approach to data protection goes beyond high availability and disaster recovery scenarios. Resiliency...

Customizing Office 365 ProPlus using the Office Customization Tool for Click-to-Run

Implementation, Microsoft 365

Today we are announcing a preview of the Office Customization Tool for Click-to-Run, a simple to use web application that enables desktop administrators to customize Office 365 clients. Until today, Windows desktop administrators would use notepad or an...

Rethinking the modern workplace with Microsoft 365

Implementation, Microsoft 365

Today’s post was written by Catherine Boeger, general manager for Microsoft Office marketing Today the rapid pace of change is challenging businesses and government organizations to rethink everything we do. What’s changing? For the first...

Office Online Server November 2017 Release

Implementation, Microsoft 365

The Office Online team is pleased to release our latest update to Office Online Server (OOS). OOS empowers organizations to view, edit, and create documents in the browser with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote from their own datacenter. Please verify that you have...

Part 4: Promote Microsoft 365 awareness and enable end users with training

Implementation, Microsoft 365

This blog series is written by Cyril Belikoff, Senior Director of Office Marketing This is the fourth and final post from our blog series on the four success factors for driving Microsoft 365 adoption. Part 1: Enable your business stakeholders with...

Part 3: Identify business needs and prioritize Microsoft 365 scenarios

Implementation, Microsoft 365

This blog series is written by Cyril Belikoff, Senior Director of Office Marketing This is the third post from our blog series on the four success factors for driving Microsoft 365 adoption. Check out the other posts part of this series: Part 1: Enable your...

Part 2: Recruit key stakeholders to help with your adoption

Implementation, Microsoft 365

This blog series is written by Cyril Belikoff, Senior Director of Office Marketing This is the second post from our blog series on how to help your organization accelerate time to value with its Microsoft 365 adoption. In the initial blog post in...

What’s new in Office 365 Usage Reporting – Ignite Edition

Implementation, Microsoft 365

After migrating to Office 365, the role of IT is more critical than ever. By driving usage of the services, IT can transform how their organization communicates, collaborates and creatively solves problems, enabling a truly modern workplace. As advocates of...

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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...