OneDrive Grows Up, Gains Enterprise Security
Personal GovernanceGovernance is not just about how your systems and services are managed and administrated, it is also about how the information held within your services is used, controlled and stored.In an announcement this week (June 25th, 2019) Microsoft has...
Why Can Users Create Microsoft Teams?
Teams for All!Microsoft Teams can be created (by default) by anyone in your Office 365 tenant. Microsoft describes this as 'preventing IT staff being inundated with requests to create Teams' which although noble, is naive. The challenges brought in SharePoint (since...
What Really Matters When Migrating to Office 365?
Over the last few years I have been involved in some pretty large migration projects. With over one million users migrated to the cloud on my watch, across a number of customers. I would like to think I have more than enough experience to comment on what really...
Are Citizen Developers Dangerous?
The possibilities of citizen development are ever increasing. The Power Platform and Flow (in the Microsoft ecosystem) are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and we are starting to see more and more exotic use of the capabilities that far extend (in my view) beyond the...
Should I Backup Exchange Online Mailboxes?
Backup? For Office 365? Are you nuts? Microsoft takes care of it, no?Microsoft does indeed take care of the availability of the infrastructure associated to operating Office 365 and Exchange Online but the safety of your data is a shared responsibility which is...
How Long Should I Keep a SharePoint Site, Office Group or Microsoft Team?
How long should you keep an Office 365 object such as a SharePoint Site, an Office 365 Groups or a Microsoft Team?The Eternal QuestionIt is a great question. A contentious question. A question that really only has one answer (despite what other consultants might tell...