A OneDrive time machine: The ‘Files Restore’ feature

Over the years, SharePoint has built a reputation as a solid platform and rightly so, but the complexities involved in deploying and managing SharePoint-based solutions can often catch people unprepared. This even includes Microsoft themselves, and the SharePoint Product Group, who decided to position a SharePoint-based solution as the corner-stone for file storage in Office […]

This year will probably be known as the “year of GDPR”, and understandably so. Compliance with this seminal regulation requires that organizations dedicate significant time and effort examining their processes and implementing safeguards and strategies to protect PII (Personally Identifiable Information). Of course, Office 365 should be a big area of focus in any GDPR […]

As of two weeks ago, an update that incorporates the Administrative units feature into the Office 365 Admin center has started rolling out across the service. The rollout was announced with an update to the corresponding Office 365 Roadmap item and the following Message Center post: As neither the Roadmap items, the Message center post, […]

In this blog, I will be moving on from Office 365 permissions to something broader: Azure AD. Azure AD is the directory service behind Office 365 and takes care of identity provisioning and authentication. Actually, this definition is not entirely correct. In fact, Office 365 is just one of the thousands of services/applications that use […]

Everyone loves time savers, life hacks, or whatever you want to call them. Working in IT, we all have our top, ‘go-to’ time savers, and in Office 365 having your Tenant ID at your fingertips can be a great one to have at your disposal. In many internal systems, your tenant isn’t identified by its […]

One of the many announcements from Ignite last month was the new ‘Reports reader’ role in Office 365, enabling greater visibility into the reporting available in the Admin Center. The Reports reader role can be assigned to any Office 365 user across the entire organization, and no additional privileges are required. Users with this role […]

Office 365 can have a significant positive impact on an organisation and its employees, in both a financial and operational sense, but to get this value, users must adopt the technology. Microsoft released a white paper in which they identified the most important success factors for driving end user adoption and engagement with Office 365. […]

We’ve previously looked at how to use public folders to create a company-wide calendar in Office 365, and (more recently) how to set up shared calendars through Office 365 Groups. You can also set up shared calendars in SharePoint Online so you and your colleagues have easy access to common schedules and dates, alongside your […]

Back in 2013, we posted a blog on company-wide shared calendars, and time and time again we see it appear amongst our most popular posts. The blog explained how to set up a company-wide shared calendar in Office 365. Three years have passed since then, and the platform has changed a lot, so we figured it was […]

If you have had any experience of managing Active Directory, either on-premises or in the cloud, you will know how quickly it can become cluttered. Whether it’s the details of users and machines that are inactive, accounts that have expired or been disabled, or groups made for projects that finished a long time ago – it […]