Microsoft's offerings around data ingestion to Office 365 are going from strength to strength recently. With the much improved SharePoint Online Migration Tool and Migration Manager, migrating files into SharePoint Online has never been easier. The SharePoint Online Migration Tool which allows us to migrate SharePoint content into SharePoint Online provides a great user experience …
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I recently posted about how we can use Delegated Access Permissions via a partner relationship to connect to an Exchange Online organization through PowerShell. This is a fantastic piece of functionality for MSPs and CSPs to manage multiple tenancies securely without having managing a set of admin identities for all of their customers. To expand …
External file sharing is always a struggle to get right in Microsoft 365. Based on factors like company culture, industry and relationship to partner companies, there are a huge amount of variables that will influence the exact policy and controls that are required to tailor the relevant features. I can't stress enough how much setting …
In line with the change to Stream videos storage to OneDrive and SharePoint. Microsoft are now enabling the ability to control the download functionality on shared videos. Previously, when sharing documents from OneDrive or SharePoint Online, users had the ability to make a file read-only and restrict download at the time of sharing. Planned for …
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Microsoft Teams recordings are a great feature for when people miss meetings and need to catch up, or when they just need to review the content. We've used them in the past for technical demos and project handovers. Recordings were were, until now, saved into Microsoft Stream and available to view in the Stream app. …
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Due to an issue on a file migration, I recently had a requirement to compare source and destination OneDrive structures. The easiest way I could come up with to do this was to use Graph API to expand the folder structure and export to CSV. I've always been a big PowerShell users so that is …
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I often end up in one of two conversations around Microsoft Teams governance with customers, the "Users can manage them themselves so we don't need to worry" group, and the "Nobody gets a Team unless we follow this 20 step approval process and our service desk needs to set them up and lock them down" …
Continue reading Protecting Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams with Sensitivity Labels (Preview)
External Sharing in SharePoint Online is a fantastic collaboration tool. Working with external parties on projects through SharePoint using features such as co-authoring and version control is invaluable when it comes to increasing productivity through Office 365. One topic that is constantly brought up in the planning phase is governance around what external parties we …
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