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Practical Admin: Archiving Options for Sites and Teams in Microsoft 365

Sean McAvinue — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Archival and removal of locations within SharePoint Online and Teams is a helpful addition to remove stale data from immediate access by users, but it can be confusing for tenant admins to understand the available options. In this article, we examine what options exist to archive data and why you would use each option.

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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Microsoft 365 Backup

Paul Robichaux — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000

If you’re interested in protecting your SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, or Exchange Online data, it is useful to understand how Microsoft 365 Backup works and what the software can and cannot do. In this article, Paul Robichaux walks through how to set up and test the preview version of Microsoft 365 Backup.

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Using Power Automate and Azure Automation to Manage the Lifecycle of SharePoint Sites

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

A key aspect of a well-managed Microsoft 365 environment is to ensure that SharePoint sites are removed when they are no longer needed. In this blog, Sean McAvinue explores how to combine relatively basic PowerShell and Azure Automation skills with Power Automate to create a clean, robust way to manage the lifecycle of SharePoint sites in your Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Practical Issues Around the Implementation of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Tony Redmond — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Copilot for Microsoft 365 generated a lot of media hype after its March 16 announcement. In this article, we contemplate some of the implementation issues that need to be teased out before Copilot for Microsoft 365 deployments start.

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Introduction to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Part III: Interacting with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

In this article, Sean McAvinue explains how to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to Interact with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

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How to Use Office 365 Audit Data with Microsoft Sentinel

Tony Redmond — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:11:00 +0000

Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft's log aggregator. Along with other data, Sentinel can ingest events from the Office 365 audit log. Once ingested, we can visualize the data through workbooks. If you have an Azure subscription, it's surprisingly easy to take advantage of the 31-day trial to see if Sentinel can do a job for your organization. Follow our steps and you'll be visualizing quickly.

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Set up Viva Learning and publish your own content using SharePoint

Steve Goodman — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:36:00 +0000

Viva Learning was launched to GA (General Availability) at Ignite 2021 Fall Edition and rolled out to commercial Microsoft 365 tenants during the last months of 2021.

Your employees will, by default, be able to begin using Viva Learning right away without any IT administrator action to enable it or configure it. Now is the time to get to grips with what is available to configure, and how you can use the built-in functionality to good effect.

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Using Adaptive Scopes with Retention Policies for SharePoint Online Sites

Tony Redmond — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:21:01 +0000

Adaptive scopes are a new way to target locations for Microsoft 365 retention policies. Previously, we covered how to use scopes to find users and groups. Now, we move to describe how to use adaptive scopes to find SharePoint Online sites and OneDrive for Business accounts. The process is not quite as easy as it is to create scopes for users and groups, but once you understand how to add custom properties to sites, you're home free and easy. That is, if you have the necessary Office 365 E5 licenses to use adaptive scopes...

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Ignite 2021 is Next Week. Here’s What I Anticipate for Microsoft 365

Tony Redmond — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:59:00 +0000

Microsoft Ignite 2021 happens (virtually) on Nov 2-4. There are tons of sessions scheduled and in this post we consider some important Microsoft 365 topics that we hope Microsoft will cover to help technologists plan tenant development over the coming year. Above all, we're looking forward to being able to attend conferences like Ignite in person so that we can learn from experts from inside and outside Microsoft.

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New Expiring Access Policy to Control Guest Access to SharePoint Online Sites

Tony Redmond — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has introduced a new feature to control how long guests have access to content shared with them in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. You can configure a tenant-wide policy and then tune the policy for specific sites. The new control does not affect guest access gained through membership of Microsoft 365 Groups. Here's what you need to know about SharePoint Online's guest expiration policy

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