Fixed! It looks like Microsoft, at some point this year, fixed a bunch of stuff with DocumentIDs.

For the first time ever Microsoft provides a consistent cornerstone of Document Mmgt.

Summary:

Document identifiers now persist with the document across Office 365.

Search wor...

Intranets as a concept have been around over 25 years, and content management solutions allowing business-users to deliver them nearly as long. So what do we do when the recurring intranet project crops up... again.

Evolution

Intranet history is one of relevance and user...

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...