Can bad deliverables and poor outcomes be fixed by procurement model?

Recently seen issues with people trying to manage tenant-wide (global) retention policies on Office 365.

While the Security and Compliance Center has been around a while now, and the core labels, policy and audit from Exchange team is robust, there's a lot which is just...

Did you know that in 2018 in Australia and New Zealand many Government agencies have been moving core services to Office 365 and some have been using SharePoint Online successfully for years?

So why does that matter to you?
Because they have done your homework!

Both the...

Adopting Office 365? Which bits can you safely use, and not end up in a dead-end? Read-on...

Microsoft continue to promote their new service called Teams and it looks like it is here to stay. But what is it?

My elevator description goes like this...

Teams is an online service that provides three core functions.

First, a new voice, video, and chat communication pl...

Archiving with SharePoint Online

We get bombarded with questions on how to derive value from investing SharePoint Online and Office 365, and often businesses throw-out the easy-option of document management and being able to support the business-lifecycle.

Actually, what...

Summary: Use a tool, over developing scripts, for moving documents and content to SharePoint Online. Overall it's quicker, cheaper, with lower-risk and higher-chance of success. 

Its common-sense isn't it...

We have been involved in a lot of moves, migrations and upgrade...

I  really like the Microsoft platform, and genuinely believe it is (by and large) the best productivity toolkit on the planet today, but they are beginning to get me down with how often they do just dumb things with updates.

Forgiving that a lot of "new features" b...

As an ex-MS I get frustrated when they do dumb-things, and with O365 releases this is more frequent than I'd like, but I just read this message centre notification about removing the ability to control versioning on libraries is infuriating and flagrantly idiotic move....

I don't really do blogs, but this is an interesting and useful enhancement that's crept-in with SharePoint online site-analytics over last few months into Preview

Last year - you could see individual site analytics and it looked a bit like this:

while at first-glance is...