January 2020 - ITProMentor

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Why you should take a real hard look at upgrading from Office 365 to Microsoft 365 this year

Readers of this blog are probably already familiar with the differences between Office 365 and Microsoft 365 plans. But I still run into plenty of folks out there who think these are the same thing, or who believe this is for "cloud only" customers, and there are still others who...

Business, OpinionEnterprise Mobility + Security, Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft 365 Enterprise, security8 Comments

Understanding file server migrations to Microsoft 365

In my opinion, there is only one viable migration path to move data from old file servers to Microsoft 365: it has to be a user-engaged migration. IT people always ask me about tools--stuff like the SharePoint migration tool or Microsoft's recent acquisition of mover.io, and there are even fancier...

Philosophy, Question, Technicaladoption, collaboration, file server, file shares, migration, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Teams18 Comments

In preview now: A simpler protection framework for Teams and other Group-connected SharePoint sites

Microsoft has previously published a framework for protecting Teams. There is another very much like it for SharePoint. The goal was to create some recommendations that "balance security with ease of collaboration." Image credit: Microsoft It is a fine balance indeed. The most interesting feature of this framework is that Microsoft...

Opinion, ProductivityAzure Information Protection, collaboration, Groups, security, sensitivity labels, Teams2 Comments

Monthly Archives - January 2020

Why you should take a real hard look at upgrading from Office 365 to Microsoft 365 this year

Understanding file server migrations to Microsoft 365

In preview now: A simpler protection framework for Teams and other Group-connected SharePoint sites

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