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Scenarios Employees require manager approval for time off requests. Employees can request new hardware, equipment, or supplies which then follows an approval and procurement process. A subject matter expert updates a policy, which then requires multi-level review and approval. A proposal to a customer require...
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Viva Goals Viva Sales Resources Tip Join the Maturity Model Practitioners : Every month we host sessions exploring the value and use of the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model and how you can successfully develop your organization using Microsoft 365. Each of these sessions focus on building a community of practit...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . The Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 is an extension of the SharePoint Maturity Model (SPMM) Around the time SharePoint 2010 was released, Sadie Van Buren deve...
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Underpinnings: the Capability Maturity Model SPMM was based on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) , which originally came out of work at Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 and focused on software development. The premise was if you could measure yourself against a clear set of standards to identify where your prac...
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Level 400 - Capable The process is quantitatively managed in accordance with agreed-upon metrics. Effective achievement of the process objectives can be evidenced (using metrics) across a range of operational conditions. The suitability of the process in multiple environments has been tested and the process refined a...
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Not every organization needs to be at the top level. NASA or Airbus have different goals, constraints, and risks to manage than a small marketing or retail organization. Not every department, team or function needs to be at the same level; Operations often needs to function with higher levels of maturity than, for exam...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Purpose We often hear from people in the community that they know they aren't using Microsoft 365 capabilities as fully or as efficiently as they would like. Som...
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Led by business needs rather than technology features Identifies key business *and- technical competencies Enables organizations to evaluate the current state in a systematic and consistent way Applicable to various roles in the organization Competencies Published Business Process Collaboration Comm...
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Effective achievement can be evidenced across a range of operational conditions Process has been tested and refined Process users demonstrate competence Level 400 - Keywords Productive, interactive, responsive, enhanced, effective, adaptable, quality Level 500 - Optimizing Deliberate and systematic proc...
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Resources Origin of the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 Tip Join the Maturity Model Practitioners : Every month we host sessions exploring the value and use of the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model and how you can successfully develop your organization using Microsoft 365. Each of these sessions focus on building a...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Names are important as they imply meaning, and in many experiences such as Microsoft Teams, names serve as a key navigational aid for end users in locating the corre...
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The consequences of bad names The consequences of poor or inconsistent naming boil down to two main problems: findability and redundancy. A variety of studies have shown that these are huge problems in the digital workplace: Findability: Multiple studies have shown that users spend a huge part of their day (some...
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While emojis can be tempting to utilize, keep in mind that these can cause issues for search and are not supported in all the areas where a Team’s name gets applied. Spaces Spaces are proven to make names more scannable while improving overall readability for end users, which further aids with finding the right...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Intro for the challenge We see many challenges when it comes to the people part of Microsoft 365. We've heard it all before: digitalization is 80% about people a...
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VUCA The necessity of understanding the real challenge isn't that new: In the '90s, the term VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) was coined by the US military to describe our modern world and the challenges any organization (not only the military) was facing. This acronym describes a world in which ...
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Old world and new world collide We've build organizations around structures and processes that were invented to deal with different requirements. The way we built up and think about organizations is still based on the idea that markets are predictable, change can be planned, and our world works consistently. Ultima...
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Hierarchies into Networks In a world where we have a complicated yet straightforward task with multiple people who can work on that task, we need someone who clearly understands what to do: someone to keep all the strings together and know where to go. With that comes clarity about hierarchy, line of command, and pow...
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Planning into Experimentation For ages, planning and the predictability of strategies were a winning factor for organizations, and the one hero-like manager who could foresee what was going to happen was at the top of the hierarchy. But if we know that the VUCA components characterize organizations' environments toda...
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The Iceberg Model Before we can change how we do a Microsoft 365 project to solve our old world problems, we first need to understand old and desired new ways of working and get the bigger picture of our situation. An excellent tool to facilitate deeper thinking is the iceberg model. Defining the iceberg model ...
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We can dig into which thinking generated the structures that are in place. For example: our belief of "work is the most important thing, even more important than health and the more I do, the more valuable I am" leads to behavior (which seemed to be expected, because everyone did it), which resulted in a physical manif...
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But segmentation of organizations is not only an issue across departments (horizontally), but also in the hierarchy (vertically), which leads us to another iceberg, that is responsible for lack of understanding of problems of workforce by leadership. Leadership, who don't generally understand details of issues and ...
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iceberg of the desired new world You see what happens here. When we approach a modern work style mindset as we usually do, we barely go to the root of the problem at all. We're barely scratching the surface of it. And that is all fair and square, but we also know that our solutions won't sustain when we're fixing the...
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Level 1: New Events Over time, this leads to a healthy understanding of productivity with some very beneficial implications: awareness of mental load, reorganization of priorities, and connectedness to the broader organization. As a result, we can see that people make fair use of their time and do not need to face ob...
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Some questions to ask could be: Do we trust our employees and how much? How many control mechanisms that also interfere with people's productivity and frustrate them do we have in place? Do we foster transparency? Which structures and processes did we follow to promote information silos instead and prevent people...
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A #LearnItAll mindset will grant future-readiness Democratizing access to corporate assets (knowledge, tools, roles) will impact how people feel about their employer A respectful climate towards everyone results in consciousness and thoughtfulness Corporate Culture - Events Climbing up our iceberg, we now r...
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Conclusion To see the bigger picture of adoption and how Microsoft 365 can support our digital transformation efforts, it is important to investigate the corporate mental model, the organizational structures, and patterns. Focusing on visible events only, underestimating the mental model's complexity, and cherry-pick...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . OneDrive PC Folder Backup is a OneDrive sync feature that works with Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10. This feature allows business users to automatically backup...
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OneDrive PC Folder Backup is similar to Windows Offline Files or folder redirection. Meaning they don't work well together so you need to turn of Offline files before using OneDrive PC Folder Backup. OneDrive PC Folder Backup uses your OneDrive site as storage, meaning the user account in question have to be "Site Co...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Content types are a central part of SharePoint. This article will not go into deep details on how to use content types because it depends too much on the use case. T...
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How to create new content types With the current Information Architecture in Microsoft 365, to make content types available for end users there are a couple of approaches: Use the Content Type Gallery (this is the modern version of the "content type hub") The content type will be propagated to all SharePoint s...
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As mentioned above we mainly work with two types of content type: Document Content Types List Content Types Before you start to create your content type consider the following: If it is a document content type, do you have the document template available, and does this content type need any metadata (buil...
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Using the Content type The publishing of the the content type should go pretty fast in Microsoft 365 now, compared to what it did a couple of years ago. Before you can add the new content type to your library or list you need to make sure the "Settings" in "Advanced Settings" | "Allow management of content types" ...
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Pros/Cons Below is some pros/cons that should help you choose the right content type propagation method for your business scenario. Using "Content type gallery" Pros Easy to get started Content types are automatically propagated to all sites in the tenant SharePoint Online search can surface search conten...
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Important If a content type is in use in a library or lists the content type cannot be deleted from the site. Meaning you need to manually change the contents(file or list item) to another content type before you can delete the content type. Using "PnP, Site scripts or similar methods" Pros This is very fle...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Working for the government can be a privilege, a job that comes with a feeling of pride and satisfaction in working on behalf of your fellow citizen. If you're a Sha...
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Am I working in the government cloud? It might be hard to tell by looking at a SharePoint site or Microsoft Team that you're in the government cloud. If you're a Microsoft 365 expert or SharePoint site owner who's been handed a site or a Team to manage, the easiest way to tell is to check your account license. If i...
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The waiting is the hardest (web)part Be prepared for some frustration from your end-users about waiting for new features – they'll read about the latest new Teams capability or Power Automate Connector and expect to see it in your government cloud environment on launch day. More likely than not, the task will land on...
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Work with support staff, trainers, and vendor partners When seeking out support in your government cloud tenant, be it formally with a service provider or informally on social media and forums, you'll have a better time if you mention that your Microsoft 365 tenant is in the government cloud. (You can even share this...
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Plan for Microsoft 365 Government - GCC deployments Plan for Microsoft 365 Government - GCC-High deployments Plan for Microsoft 365 Government - DOD deployments Detailed learning When you're ready to learn more, start with the Service Description , as it details what it means to operate Microsoft 365 in the ...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . The URL is a core tenet of our online lives. Despite all the apps, browsers, and tools that occasionally obfuscate it, behind the scenes the Internet is glued togeth...
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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://learn.microsoft.com/search/?terms=large%lists \n Multiple filters \n Here's an example of multiple filtering with two keys ( products and languages ) with their corresponding values ( m365 and javascript ): \n https://learn.microsoft.com/samples/browse \n https://learn.microsoft.com/samples/browse?products=m365&languages=javascript \n And here's that same page loads different content with different values ( ms-graph and html ) \n https://learn.microsoft.com/samples/browse/?products=ms-graph&languages=html \n How does this mental modal of URL-as-page-transformer work in Microsoft 365? Keep reading! \n Useful Query String Tricks \n Put a Modern SharePoint page into Edit mode \n Any Modern SharePoint Online page can be placed into Edit Mode by adding this query string URL: ?Mode=Edit \n https://<yoursite>.sharepoint.com/sites/<sitename>/SitePages/default.aspx \n https://<yoursite>.sharepoint.com/sites/<sitename>/SitePages/default.aspx?Mode=Edit \n This isn't really easier than clicking the button on the page, but it's a good example of changing a page's look or function dramatically with a query string URL. \n \n Tip \n Sharing (links) is caring - The URL, like the one in your browser's address bar, usually support spaces. So something like ?terms=policy security works just fine. Where it might not work consistently is when you share the URL via Email, text or Teams by copying and pasting it. As a best practice, replace any space in your URL query string with a %20 , like ?terms=policy%20security . \n Safety first . \n \n Put a Modern SharePoint page into Maintenance mode \n Any Modern SharePoint Online page, like:"
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Put a Modern SharePoint page into Maintenance mode Any Modern SharePoint Online page, like: https://<yoursite>.sharepoint.com/sites/<sitename>/SitePages/home.aspx … can be placed into Maintenance Mode by adding this query string to the URL: ?maintenancemode=true https://<yoursite>.sharepoint.com/sites/<siten...
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If your page or list are living on a Hub Site, you may notice the Hub Site navigation will remain when using env=Embedded . If this is not desirable, e.g. if you are embedding a page using the embed webpart, you can append ?env=WebView instead. Show Any SharePoint List as a Microsoft Lists List If you've been ...
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Redirect users navigation from a List You can redirect users navigation by including the ?Source= query string in a list URL. This method could support all those use cases where a user is supposed to click on a link to add a new SharePoint list item. Without the ?Source= query string, a user would "get stuck" in ...
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Create a Link to a List or Library Search Result Within the Modern user interface, the search bar sets its context (or scope) to the List, Library, or site you're in. When you perform a search from a list or library, it appends a query string of the search term to the URL. This link is sharable/bookmarkable. Here's...
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Debug SharePoint Framework Web Parts and Extensions You can troubleshoot a SharePoint page to see if there is a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) extension or web part causing trouble. Add this ?disable3PCode=1 to the end of the URL to disable loading anything SPFx-related: https://<yoursite>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site...
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Tip You can find out the internal name by going to List Settings, choosing the column, and looking after the &Field= key in the URL. That's using a query string URL to help you make a query string URL! When filtering yes/no columns, use the number 0 for no and the number 1 for yes . Filtering like this...
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Microsoft 365 is a rich platform for building applications. Here are the types of apps you can build on Microsoft 365. Why should you build applications on Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365, previously known as Office 365, is Microsoft's productivity cloud, that organizations use for communication and collaboration. 250 ...
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Extend Microsoft 365 experiences Microsoft 365 offers many extension points to bring your app where your users are. By exposing your app inside Microsoft 365, you make your app a part of people's work. Because your app is available right where they are, they can focus on their work and interact with your app without ...
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Another way to extend portals is by building extensions . SharePoint Framework extensions allow you to execute a piece of code on every page or change how list fields are rendered. Just like with web parts, you can load data from Microsoft 365 or any other API in your extensions. Extend documents When creating doc...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . What's With All These Groups? Azure and Microsoft 365 are the culmination of decades of technical evolution and the desire to be as backwards compatible as possibl...
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Azure AD Security Groups that are cloud-only can be managed by users in the tenant that have the appropriate admin roles . This includes, but is not limited to, Global Administrator, Directory Writers, Groups Administrator, Privileged Role Administrator, SharePoint Administrator, and User Administrator. How do they ...
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Microsoft 365 Groups What are Microsoft 365 Groups? Microsoft 365 Groups are a membership object in Microsoft 365 that eases the task of ensuring a group of people have consistent permissions to a group of related resources. You may see them referred to as Microsoft 365 Groups or Unified Groups. The group of relat...
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How do they manage Microsoft 365 Groups? Group Owners can manage Group membership in any of the Group supported applications. For instance, they can add a member to a Group from the SharePoint site, Outlook, Outlook Online, the Teams app, and so on. Changes to the Group made in any app are reflected in all of the app...
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Who can manage SharePoint Groups? Anyone with the "Create Groups" and "Manage Permissions" permissions in the SharePoint site can manage SharePoint Groups. Since this not an Azure AD object, having elevated roles in Azure AD does not allow someone to manage SharePoint Groups. A user with the SharePoint admin Role cou...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Basic Idea The easy answer here is a Content Type is a type of content, but that isn't very helpful. A Content Type is like a business object: something that you m...
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Back to Work Now imagine you work at a mortgage company. Instead of one (or maybe two) mortgages, you're responsible for thousands. The Content Type becomes even more important, and you may want some additional metadata, like maybe the mortgage originator, the servicing company, and the mortgage due date. We don'...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . Basic Idea A Site Column is a template of a configured column. By creating a Site Column, you can reuse it anywhere else in the site and not have to manually rebu...
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For example, if we work with Contracts, we may want reusable columns for Start Date , Contracted Party , Contract Topic , Expiration Date , etc. Where there is an existing, out of the box Site Column - as with Start Date - we can choose to use it. In other cases, we may decide we need to create our own Site Column ...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . In Microsoft 365, content can be searched for using various search technologies. The existing variants are based on the same search index, but differ in usage and co...
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The Search verticals in Search from office.com and SharePoint online modern sites contain much-used content in SharePoint and OneDrive. It's possible to create your own search verticals with Microsoft Search. Custom connectors can also be added as verticals and are displayed for use in both Microsoft 365 and Microsoft ...
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When to use SharePoint Search (PnP Modern Search Web Parts)? With the PnP Modern Search Web Parts, SharePoint Search can be customized. Usage is limited to SharePoint or individual SharePoint sites. Scenarios for the use of SharePoint Search can be: SharePoint Search Center SharePoint application-related search...
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SharePoint Search (classic): Customized SharePoint Search Center on SharePoint on premises Principal author : David Mehr
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . The Value of Social Media Given the pace of change in the Microsoft 365 universe, social media have become a primary source of information and training. The refere...
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Messaging and Communications Important Seeking help on Microsoft Teams? Include #MSTeamsHelp in your tweet. Hashtag Official Account #MicrosoftTeams @MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365Groups #AzureAD @AzureAD #MSOutlook @Outlook #MSExchange @MSFTExchange #...
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#MSWord #PowerPoint @PowerPoint Power Platform Hashtag Official Account #PowerPlatform @MSPowerPlat #PowerApps @MSPowerApps #PowerAutomate @MSPowerAutomate #PowerBI , #DAX , #PowerQuery @MSPowerBI #PowerPages #PowerVirtualAgents @MSPowerV...
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#PnPPowerShell @PnpPowershell #PnPjs @m365pnpjs #M365PnP @m365pnp #CLIMicrosoft365 @climicrosoft365 Security TBD Events and User Groups Hashtag Account Date #SPSEvents @SPS_Events Saturdays, globally #MSBizAppsSummit Spring #MSInspire M...
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Note This is an open-source article with the community providing support for it. For official Microsoft content, see Microsoft 365 documentation . As with any technology, there are lots of terms we toss around to explain things. Just understanding what each term means can be half the battle. Whether you are ent...
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Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) enables Federated Identity and Access Management by securely sharing digital identity and entitlements rights across security and enterprise boundaries. AD FS extends the ability to use single sign-on functionality that is availa...
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Advanced eDiscovery The Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365 builds on the existing Microsoft eDiscovery and analytics capabilities. Advanced eDiscovery provides an end-to-end workflow to preserve, collect, analyze, review, and export content that's responsive to your organization's internal and external inv...
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App Protection Policies App protection policies (APP) are rules that ensure an organization's data remains safe or contained in a managed app. A policy can be a rule that is enforced when the user attempts to access or move "corporate" data, or a set of actions that are prohibited or monitored when the user is inside...
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Azure AD Connect Azure AD Connect is an on-premises Microsoft application that's designed to meet and accomplish your hybrid identity goals. Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync Azure AD Connect cloud sync is new offering from Microsoft designed to meet and accomplish your hybrid identity goals for synchronization of user...
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Backup Always a hot topic. There is no native traditional backup and restore capability within Microsoft 365. The link to the left shows Microsoft’s stance in relation to backup of Exchange Online as an example. Third-party products are available, but are they worth it, and are they needed? The debate goes on. B...
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Camel Case In programming, Camel case is the practice of naming variables or controls by capitalizing all words except the first, giving the name a look like a camel's hump. Examples: iPad , intQuantity , myEmailAddress . See Wikipedia . Also see Pascal Case CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) ...
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Command Set See SharePoint Framework Communication Compliance Protecting sensitive information and detecting and acting on workplace harassment incidents is an important part of compliance with internal policies and standards. Communication compliance in Microsoft 365 helps minimize these risks by helping you qu...
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Content Query Web Part The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is a web part available in Classic SharePoint that allows rolling up of content across lists and sub sites. The content returned is limited to only the site collection the web part is in. This web part has been replaced by the Highlighted Content web part in Mo...
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Crawled Property A Crawled Property is one of the basic units of the Search Schema. They are created automatically by the SharePoint Search Indexer (or Crawler) when it is discovering content that can be searched. The information stored in Crawled Properties is made available in queries by mapping them to Managed Pro...
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Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces new rules for organizations that offer goods and services to people in the European Union (EU), or that collect and analyze data for EU residents no matter where you or your enterprise are located. Microsoft Dataverse ...
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Defender for Identity Microsoft Defender for Identity (formerly Azure Advanced Threat Protection, also known as Azure ATP) is a cloud-based security solution that leverages your on-premises Active Directory signals to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider ac...
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Direct Access DirectAccess allows connectivity for remote users to organization network resources without the need for traditional Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections. With DirectAccess connections, remote client computers are always connected to your organization - there is no need for remote users to start an...
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Domains Custom domains can be added into Microsoft 365. Your company might need multiple domain names for different purposes. For example, you might want to add a different spelling of your company name because customers are already using it and their communications have failed to reach you. Dynamics 365 Dynamic...
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Endpoint Manager Microsoft Endpoint Manager helps deliver the modern workplace and modern management to keep your data secure, in the cloud and on-premises. Endpoint Manager includes the services and tools you use to manage and monitor mobile devices, desktop computers, virtual machines, embedded devices, and servers...
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Exchange Web Services (EWS) Exchange Web Services (EWS) provides many operations that enable you to access information from the Exchange store. The articles in this section provide information about the overall structure of the requests, responses, and error response messages for EWS operations, as well as XML exampl...
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First Release Deprecated - please see Targeted Release . Flat SharePoint Architecture In the modern SharePoint experience, sub-sites are not recommended. In the new “flat” world of modern SharePoint, plan to create one site for each discrete topic, task, or unit of work. This will allow you to easily distribute ...
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Frontline workforce Frontline workers are employees whose primary function is to work directly with customers or the general public providing services, support, and selling products, or employees directly involved in the manufacturing and distribution of products or services. Your frontline workforce is essential to...
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Global Reader Users in this role can read settings and administrative information across Microsoft 365 services but can't take management actions. Global Reader is the read-only counterpart to Global Administrator. Governance Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management provides capabilities to govern your data fo...
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A Group is the foundation of a Microsoft Teams Team. A Team gives users within that Group channels to collaborate in the context that is relevant to their work and the ability to have scheduled and ad-hoc meetings. Teams can be public (they can be accessed by everyone inside of the organization), private (users need to...
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Highlighted Content Web Part The Highlighted Content Web Part allows you to roll up content from allows you to specify content sources, sorting and filtering, and layout options. As with all web parts in SharePoint, this we part will only display content which the current user has permission to see. Hololens ...
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Hybrid Identity Today, businesses, and corporations are becoming more and more a mixture of on-premises and cloud applications. Users require access to those applications both on-premises and in the cloud. Managing users both on-premises and in the cloud poses challenging scenarios. Microsoft’s identity solutions sp...
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Information Protection Implement capabilities from Microsoft Purview Information Protection to help you discover, classify, and protect sensitive information wherever it lives or travels. MIP capabilities are included with Microsoft 365 Compliance and give you the tools to know your data, protect your data, and preve...
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JSON JSON is a standard format for representing structured data as text. JSON is commonly used to store data in text files and to exchange data between programs over a network. JSON files usually have a .json filename extension. Junk Email In Microsoft 365 organizations with mailboxes in Exchange Online, organiza...
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Kanban When it comes to day-to-day task management for teams, the Kanban board is a simple and powerful tool that can have a big impact on your productivity, efficiency, and bottom line. First popularized in the 1940s by Toyota in Japan, the Kanban solution has a long history of using physical boards to help visuali...
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Kubernetes (Azure) Deploy and manage containerised applications more easily with a fully managed Kubernetes service. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your de...
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List A List in SharePoint is a table used to store information in a SharePoint site. A list has columns that can be used to store different types of information, and each row in a list is known as an "Item". SharePoint attempts you to very carefully design lists if you attempt to store "large" amounts of data (more t...
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Loop Microsoft Loop is a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps. M Managed Metadata Managed Metadata is a SharePoint feature that allows the business to create a hierarchy of terms that can be used in SharePoint S...
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Meeting Settings (Teams) As an admin, you use Teams meetings settings to control whether anonymous users can join Teams meetings, customize meeting invitations, and if you want to enable Quality of Service (QoS), set port ranges for real-time traffic. These settings apply to all Teams meetings that users schedule in ...
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Mobile Application Management (MAM) Intune mobile application management refers to the suite of Intune management features that lets you publish, push, configure, secure, monitor, and update mobile apps for your users. MAM allows you to manage and protects your organization's data within an application. With MAM wit...
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Modern Workplace The nature of work has changed. Employees expect to work securely from anywhere, on any device, and they put a high premium on work that enriches and fulfills them. When their productivity tools enhance the quality and effectiveness of their work experience, they’re happier, more valuable, and more l...
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In programming, namespaces can be far more complex - like List.Fields within Microsoft.SharePoint.Client - but we worry about namespacing in our day-to-day lives, too. It wouldn't work very well if all our children were named Daryl. Named Locations Locations are named in the Azure portal under Azure Active Directo...
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Non Profit licencing Microsoft Tech for Social Impact is dedicated to providing affordable and accessible technology and tools to help nonprofits of all sizes achieve their missions. That’s why Microsoft offer grants and discounts of their products and services to eligible nonprofits around the world, including Micro...
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