01Sep2022
02Apr2021
Moving to Microsoft 365 means getting to know your data (and your business)
Through my website's contact form, I still hear about botched migrations to Microsoft 365 on a regular basis. This is usually due to exactly one problem: ignorance about the process, as well as ignorance about the datasets being migrated, as well as ignorance about...
02Nov2020
The “Five Rules of Fields” for File Server Migrations to Microsoft 365
What a fun tongue twister, and such a practical resource that I am excited to share with you today! Well, actually a lot of this information you might have already gleaned by following my past posts about file server migration. But I still find that when I consult with folks...
29Apr2020
How do you deal with the unreasonable storage limits in SharePoint Online?!
I had a great question come in from a long-time reader recently:As I begin my journey to move clients from on-prem file servers to SharePoint/Teams, I keep getting hung up on the storage allocation. 1TB for an organization + 10GB/user is so far behind the times of what other vendors...
19Feb2020
The importance of starting with OneDrive
I am going to make an argument that OneDrive is the most important application for you to focus on when starting a new migration of files to Microsoft 365. Not Teams, and not SharePoint. OneDrive. I recommend starting here for a variety of reasons--and maybe not all of the ones...
21Jan2020
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...
28Dec2019
Reader Question: Can I sync my Network Drives to Teams?
Dear Alex, I wish to know if its possible to sync files/folders on my Network Server to teams. I have read a few documentations but all seems to be just for own PCs and not for Server/network drives. Yours is the closest I could see. Please can you help me...
14Oct2019
Why you shouldn’t disable external sharing (really)
Okay, so anyone who has ever done consulting with Microsoft / Office 365 before has probably heard this question:"Can we disable external sharing?"--Any customer at every Office 365 consulting engagement, ever.Bless their souls, these questions are usually coming from a good place, but to see why this is actually not...
15Aug2019
Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? Part 3: Data governance
In part 1 of this series, we discussed external sharing and chat. In part 2, we dealt with access controls and notifications. Now, we turn our focus to...
13Aug2019