collaboration Archives

30JulJuly 30, 20212021

The three opportunities for MSP’s moving forward

The writing has been on the wall a while now; with a mass exodus to cloud services such as Microsoft 365 from traditional on-premises infrastructure, it was only a matter of time before those selling MSP services had to either evolve or die off. And with recent high-profile attacks against...

Business, Opinionadoption, collaboration, compliance, Cybersecurity, Managed Services, modern management, training5 Comments

04AugAugust 4, 20202020

A Brief History of Collaboration and Governance

I have slowly been converting people to the "modern collaboration mindset" during the past couple of years through my op-ed style of writing. I think you can appreciate that changing minds through writing is something which rarely if ever happens in areas like politics, but it turns out this can...

Opinioncollaboration, governance, Office 365 Groups, Teams8 Comments

04FebFebruary 4, 20202020

How to customize permissions in Teams

Okay, I admit: the title of this post was a bit of trickery on my part. But it is based on the fact that I run into this question constantly. Customers or readers who write to me will phrase it in different ways, but it always boils down to this:...

Productivity, Questioncollaboration, Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Teams1 Comment

21JanJanuary 21, 20202020

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

07JanJanuary 7, 20202020

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

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The three opportunities for MSP’s moving forward

A Brief History of Collaboration and Governance

How to customize permissions in Teams

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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