With the new Microsoft Teams admin center, administrators can control policies, tenant-wide settings, and also create Teams directly. Create a Team from the admin center First thing first, log into the Office 365 portal, then access the Teams admin center (left pane). Under the “Teams” section, click on + New team Fill the info for your new team:…
Instead of the default landing page for users when they login, you can customize a little bit to reflect your brand. You can do this through Azure Active Directory to offer a better sign-in experience. In this short post, we’ll have a look at how we can achieve that in just a few clicks. Minimum licensing requirements: Azure AD…
Hubsites have been announced at Microsoft Ignite in 2017, and provide a way to display content from multiple sites (once they’re connected) with same branding, and also a search functionality across all connected sites. In today’s post, we’ll see how to use PowerShell PnP (Patterns & Practices) to associate teams and/or communication sites to a hubsite. You can have a…
Group-based licensing for security groups in Office 365. This is something that will reduce clicking, scripting, and admin burden overall. If this fits your organisation requirements and governance, then go for it! It’s a great feature. Let’s see how we can start using it. Minimum requirements: Global Admin or User Management permissions Office 365 trial/paid subscription (E3 in my case)…
If you created a modern Team Site in SharePoint Online (SPO) and decided back then, not to connect it to an Office 365 group, it’s totally possible to create this group, and ‘link‘ it to an Office 365 group. You’ve changed your mind, and you want to take advantage of what the O365 groups have to offer. Shared mailbox, Planner,…
Today’s blog post will be about creating site policies in SharePoint. Site policies are a great way to manage site collections without the admin overhead part! This applies to SharePoint on-prem as well as SharePoint Online (in Office 365) – For this post, we’ll use SharePoint Online. Create a Site Policy First step is to create a site policy…
Today’s post is a bit different. I’m not going to share how to do this in SharePoint, or that in Office 365. Instead, I’m going to share how & why I created the O365 Data Retriever tool, which I made available on Github yesterday, Aug 22nd. Why did I create the tool? A few months back, I was looking…
OneDrive for Business is your personal storage in Office 365 and also available in SharePoint on-premises. When enabled, OneDrive for Business is actually a site collection within SharePoint, and a great way to share documents and collaborate between colleagues without sending large emails! Microsoft offers OneDrive for Business (online), but also (if your company allows it) a Sync Client if you…
Site Policies in SharePoint can be used to have a better governance as the platform is growing. Storage is expensive, so if you let your (unused) sites just “sitting there“, then it’s not a good use of money is it? If you need more information about Site Policies, start with an Overview of site policies in SharePoint Server. In this…
We have so many different ways to achieve something using PowerShell. In this blog post, we’ll have a look at how we can create Site Collections in SharePoint Server using an XML file and PowerShell (of course!) Open your favourite editors (I’m using Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code) and let’s get started! Create the XML file XML (eXtensible Markup…