Category: Modern Workplace

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IT Governance, Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Office 365 Governance, Planning, Prepare for Change, Security & Compliance, Tips & Tricks, User Adoption

Things to Know Before Your Organization Opens Up to Use Private Channels in Microsoft Teams

Let me start by saying that I love new functionality that creates opportunities and solves concrete needs, BUT: Having a holistic perspective when managing your organization’s productivity platform is a puzzle with many pieces. In my opinion, there are mainly three pieces you need to fit together as soon as possible if you are to succeed in introducing new functionality into an organization. These pieces are: Continue reading “Things to Know Before Your Organization Opens Up to Use Private Channels in Microsoft Teams” →

Microsoft 365 Governance, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Office 365 Governance, Security & Compliance, Tips & Tricks, User Adoption

Do you use Private chats instead of Channel Conversations? Think about it and do it right.

Private chats in Microsoft Teams is super easy and intuitive to use but are you sure you are using it for the right purpose? When you start a Private Chat and share files in this chat, the files are saved on your OneDrive for Business folder and they are only available to the participants in the chat conversation. Are you sure it is so smart to save these files to your OneDrive? Continue reading “Do you use Private chats instead of Channel Conversations? Think about it and do it right.” →

IT Governance, Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Office 365 Governance, Tips & Tricks, User Adoption

How to reduce teams sprawl by making the existence of Private Teams visible for all users

As you probably already know, in Microsoft Teams, any user in the organization can sign up for Public Teams while Private teams require the owner of the team to invite members to the team. Unless users know which private teams already exist, the risk of unnecessarily establishing new teams, with the same purpose and similar content, increases. Continue reading “How to reduce teams sprawl by making the existence of Private Teams visible for all users” →

Change, IT Governance, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Office 365 Governance, Planning, Prepare for Change, Tips & Tricks

Private channels in Microsoft Teams are here but are you ready to release it in your organization yet?

Now you have the opportunity to create “Private channels” in your tenant, but have you informed all your users about how private channels work and how and when to use this functionality? If not, NOW is the time to communicate the guidelines you have for using private channels. (Surely you have developed guidelines?)

“I have a feeling that most of you have not prepared yourself for this rollout and now you stand there with the “Smörgåsbord”  popped up and your users storm in, enjoy the goodies and leaves a very messy table behind.”

Continue reading “Private channels in Microsoft Teams are here but are you ready to release it in your organization yet?” →

IT Governance, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Governance, Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Office 365 Governance, Planning, Security & Compliance, Tips & Tricks, User Adoption

Helpful tips and useful sources of information about Office 365 Governance

Are you in the situation that you feel you do not have sufficient control of Office 365 and its applications? Does it feel a bit overwhelming and you don’t know where to start looking for how to take control and, not least, what to take control of? It may be time to take the first steps when it comes to Office 365 Governance? Continue reading “Helpful tips and useful sources of information about Office 365 Governance” →

Automation, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Flow, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Tips & Tricks

How to build a scheduled Custom Flow that sends reminders

What if you can make your boss happy by automating his / her reminders so he / she doesn’t have to spend his valuable time on old-fashioned (and boring) manual / visual follow-up and reminders? Continue reading “How to build a scheduled Custom Flow that sends reminders” →

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Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Governance, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Office 365 Governance, Security, Security & Compliance

Some basic steps to protect your organization’s devices, users and information

An important part of Governance is to have good documentation that shows how you protect your devices, users and information. But before you can document this in your governance plans, you must of course have made some assessments and implemented necessary measures. Continue reading “Some basic steps to protect your organization’s devices, users and information” →

Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace, Office 365, Prepare for Change, User Adoption

Back in Business, but what happened to Microsoft Teams this summer?

If you, like me, have just come back from vacation and been more or less offline, I can inform you that there has been a lot of information about Microsoft Teams during the summer.

I was going to summarize all the news today and post here on my blog but Vesa Nopanen got ahead of me and wrote a really good update so I share it with you here:

“Teams summer summary: what’s new and what is coming out soon”

Thank you Vesa for making this compilation!

Modern Workplace, Office 365, SharePoint Online, Tips & Tricks, User Adoption

How to become a Rock Star within working with Modern SharePoint Pages

Most (or at least many) of us are used to work with SharePoint to create, upload, work with and collaborate on files. However one question I get quite often is “How do i use, create and customize pages in modern SharePoint?”. Only a few years ago, this was often a bit complicated and it was not uncommon to have to get help from a developer to get the layout and appearance you wanted to achieve. Continue reading “How to become a Rock Star within working with Modern SharePoint Pages” →

Modern Workplace, Office 365, Prepare for Change, Search, SharePoint Online, Tips & Tricks

Time to wake up and use SharePoint for your organization’s intranet.

Stuck with a third-party intranet? Not interested in anything else, or perhaps just unaware of what your toolbox has to offer?

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There are companies that use Office 365 but still have their intranet based on another product. If you use Office 365 I can’t actually see any sustainable argument against having your intranet based on SharePoint.  Continue reading “Time to wake up and use SharePoint for your organization’s intranet.” →