Recordkeeping metadata in Office 365 and SharePoint

Records management standards (see below) state that a defining feature of records is that they are associated with metadata - both 'point of capture' metadata and 'process' metadata that continues to evolve throughout the life of the record. For at least two decades, the requirement to capture and store metadata for digital records has driven …

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Why end-users cannot create a Team in MS Teams – a common question

In the last few months, as more and more organisations implement Office 365, I have been asked one of two questions relating to teams: From IT - How do we stop end users creating a new Team in MS Teams From end users - Why can't I create a new Team? This post is for …

Using Office 365 Groups to manage (some) records in context

The third part of my recent series of posts, titled Setting up SharePoint Online to manage records, included an example architecture model with several Office 365 Group-based sites, shown in green in the graphic below. This post describes how Office 365 Groups, with their associated mailbox and SharePoint site, can be useful when there is …