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Restricted SharePoint Search is The Legacy of Previous Microsoft Collaboration Strategies

Tony Redmond — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has been forced to introduce restricted SharePoint search to allow customers to deploy Copilot for Microsoft 365 projects without worrying that Copilot will find and reuse information from across the entire tenant. It's a sad legacy of previous Microsoft collaboration strategies, notably the decision to allow users to create groups without hindrance.

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Comparing Outlook Groups to Shared Mailboxes (2022 Edition)

Tony Redmond — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Outlook groups and shared mailboxes both help small teams work with shared email. The decision as to which to use depends on the exact needs the team has. Microsoft has given Outlook groups some useful enhancements recently, but shared mailboxes are still the most email-friendly choice.

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Microsoft Launches Group Ownership Governance Policy

Tony Redmond — Mon, 16 May 2022 06:04:00 +0000

The Microsoft 365 Groups Ownership Governance policy is now generally available. Also known as the ownerless group policy, this capability allows organizations to make sure that all groups have owners by detecting ownerless groups and extending invitations to active group members to become owners. It's a useful capability, especially in large tenants with many groups.

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Talking to Microsoft About Group Sprawl

Tony Redmond — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:58:08 +0000

Microsoft currently offers people the opportunity to talk to them about the challenges of managing Microsoft 365 Groups. I spoke to the Groups developers on February 18 and brought five requests to the table from dealing with group creation to cleaning up group debris.

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Microsoft Wants to Talk About Group Sprawl (Finally)

Tony Redmond — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:36:32 +0000

Nearly seven years after the introduction of Office 365 Groups, Microsoft has finally admitted that tenants might just have a problem with "group sprawl." In other words, tenants have too many underused or unused groups because the groups have been created without oversight and not managed thereafter. Microsoft wants to discuss the problem with tenant administrators. Practical365.com thinks this is a great idea and strongly supports the initiative to get a handle on group sprawl once and for all.

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Exporting Office 365 Group membership to a CSV file

Steve Goodman — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:48:00 +0000

Read Steve's method if you need to know how to export information from an Office 365 tenant, such as Office 365 Groups.

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Office 365 Groups vs. Shared Mailboxes

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:27:36 +0000

Should you use a shared mailbox, or an Office 365 Group? The answer is, it depends. Find out the pros and cons of each option.

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What’s New in Office 365 for August 2017

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:23:38 +0000

What's new and updated in Office 365, Intune, and Azure Active Directory for August 2017.

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Managing Adoption of Office 365 by Controlling Access to Apps

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:34:31 +0000

If you're trying to run a gradual Office 365 adoption project, managing access to individual apps and services is critical. Unfortunately, it's also not very simple.

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What’s New in Office 365 for July 2017

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:06:31 +0000

Here's what is new and changed in Office 365 for July 2017.

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