Many customers using Microsoft Teams request teams restricted to internal members, without guest account access. Teams’ behavior is very often controlled by SharePoint or Microsoft 365 Group settings and a typical team user may not know anything about these settings. We recommend building your own app or automation to ensure
During our Microsoft 365 Governance workshops with customers, a common question is how to handle inactive teams. Our primary recommendation is to implement automated processes for archiving inactive teams, team owners can also archive a team themselves. The team’s conversations and files will be set to read-only and remain searchable.
When you select Share on a file in Teams, it is actually shared in SharePoint. The default options selected can be changed, and when we run our Microsoft 365 Governance workshops this is often a required action for a lot of customers. By default SharePoint will show these option when
As explained in Part one, a common Microsoft 365 Governance workshop question is how to use the Sync to OneDrive and Add shortcut to OneDrive features, both found under the Files tab in Teams channels. We recommend using only Add shortcut to OneDrive and disabling Sync. However, here we’ll also
A common inquiry that arises during our Microsoft 365 Governance workshop concerns the use of the Sync to OneDrive feature in Teams and the Add shortcut to OneDrive option. Both functionalities are accessible from the Files tab within a Teams channel. We normally recommend using Add shortcut to OneDrive instead
Introduction Microsoft Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance, compliance, and risk platform. It lets you discover, classify, label, protect, retain, and monitor data across Microsoft 365, On-Premises, multicloud, and SaaS sources. It centralizes policies (like sensitivity labels) to enforce consistent security and compliance. During our Governance workshops, we initiate the
In 2022 we wrote a post about SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Microsoft Entra B2B. As of 2025, the information in this post remains relevant for tenants created before June 2023; tenants provisioned after that date have Entra B2B integration enabled by default. Now, only one command is needed instead
On updated tenants, external file sharing is now enabled in both 1:1 and group chats. MC1102790 Roadmap ID 492625 When this feature is not enabled you will not see an attach file option when chatting with an external user. To share a file, you must first share the file from
After reading about cross-tenant quirks in sensitivity labels, I got curious: how are these labels stored in a .DOCX file—and can they be removed without encryption? Short answer: yes, and it’s surprisingly easy.
Introduction You may think that setting up a language in Microsoft 365 [admin.microsoft.com] portals may be straightforward. However, it may not be as obvious as it seems at first, and there are many factors which can play a role in that. The Basics The interface language of Azure [portal.azure.com] and
Introduction Being a Global Administrator [GA] in Microsoft 365 portal gives you unlimited permissions to access and configure all of its components and settings. SharePoint Administrator on the other hand allows you to administer and configure everything that is related to SharePoint platform, including OneDrive of course. NoteYou should not
When we share data In SharePoint with a user outside our directory, SharePoint will by default use a one-time code sent to the user so the user can verify their identity. This is also the case with OneDrive and if you do it from teams using open in SharePoint. But
Old habits die hard when implementing new technologies for end users. The new world of Modern Workplace and working with online files can be a big jump for some users in your organisation, so it is nice to know that there are ways of making things feel a little
For some organizations there is a concern when deploying OneDrive for Business that users will access corporate data from their personal device. I completely understand you! To address those concerns, it is possible to restrict OneDrive so that it only synchronizes files to domain-joined computers. Normally in this case a
Have you ever wondered how you restrict users from editing documents in Microsoft Teams? Since the start of the COVID19 pandemic Microsoft Teams usage has grown by 70% to 44 million daily users. So, with such a popular tool there is no wonder that people have started to
Governance and compliance in Office365 is more relevant than ever and Microsoft has a few tools in the toolbox that helps companies get compliant when it comes to documents in SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online. While GDPR shone a light on a lot of issues, it
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