25Nov2019
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 Data governance, a very important conversation indeed when it comes to compliance. And when it comes to compliance, every organization is going to...
13Aug2019
Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? Part 2: Access control and notifications
In part 1 of this series we discussed how there is really no such thing as "best practices" on a rich and flexible collaboration platform like Office 365, which includes many applications--Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive to name just a few. However, you can certainly end up with some "bad" practices...
08Aug2019
Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? More like considerations… Part 1: External sharing and communication
This article is part of a series. Also see Part 2, Part 3. Ever since I released the Office 365 Email Security Checklist, I have had a lot of people asking me for similar best practices checklists related to the "other" Office 365 services--especially Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. The...
25Apr2019
Two philosophies for deploying Microsoft Teams in an organization
IT admins throughout the world subscribe to one of two worldviews today: Control mindset: IT's job is to control and restrict, and of course, to protect the clueless users from all of those scary threats out there in the world today (including themselves)Empower mindset: IT's job is to educate and...
18Apr2019
How to migrate company file shares and mapped drives to Office 365 using the SharePoint Migration Tool
I debated on writing about this tool for a long time. Because here's the thing: most file servers in production today are just huge garbage piles, built out of years of half-completed thoughts and haphazard document collaboration. Therefore, before we get into it, I first want to cover off on...
15Feb2019
Managing Microsoft Teams: More to it than meets the eye
There have been some pretty good improvements over the last year with Teams, and there is only more good news on the way. Check out the backlog of requested features with updates at UserVoice. Great stuff like Private channels and Outlook group calendars are on the near horizon. But a lot...
11Nov2018
Exciting: Teams sites now visible in SharePoint admin center!
I just ran across this and had to share. I'm sure it was previously announced somewhere and I've just been behind the times on reading up, BUT--there are new Admin center updates coming soon to a tenant near you, and... THE NEW SHAREPOINT ADMIN CENTER EXPOSES SITES CREATED VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS!!! Yes, I...
09Nov2018