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At the SPC19 in Las Vegas, I had the chance to present on site designs. During the final discussion on the options for administrators, a nice question arose. How can I get an overview of all sites where site designs have failed. PowerShell to the rescue While the admin center does not show you the failed site designs, or sites that have failed designs. ...

Ever had to do a tenant to tenant migration? Me neither, up until a few months ago. A large merger resulted in two organizations that had to merge there Office 365 tenants. There are a few vendors that can help you in migrating SharePoint Online or Exchange Online. So moving that data was easy. ...

Deploying in a Cloud First World; continuous integration and continuous deployment. Topics you see arising more and more when developing for Office 365. So with the development model maturing and Office 365 introducing new options for us as developers Octavie and I decided to do a session on how we do our deployments at Mavention. ...

The ‘modern’ library experience is becoming the new normal. Being set as the default view in many tenants it is a great way of working with your data. Within this new experience the Flow and PowerApps button are great tools to work with this data. However in some cases you have a list where you want users to put in some data. ...

Anyone who have ever done migrations know that they usually are not as easy initially thought. Using tooling most migrations can be made easier yet every tooling has their downsides or quirks. And in most cases the migration is mainly about communicating and reporting progress and info. So whatever tooling you are using make sure the process around what happens during the migration is clear for everyone involved. ...

Allowing your users to share content in Office 365 through the use of external sharing is a powerful way to get things done. Inviting someone to collaborate or view documents you store on your team site is becoming easier and easier. As there is coming more and more control over external sharing options I recently found myself having to see what happens with external sharing requests. ...

It has been a while since I blogged about How to disable Office 365 Groups for specific users. Disabling groups can be a valid option to keep a little more control over the creation process. While groups are a great way to share and collaborate there are scenario’s where you do not want users to create them yet. ...

Lets start with the fact that groups are awesome! Their easy to create, almost everyone can work with them and you’ve got almost everything you need to collaborate in a team. Now there are some downsides as well, due to the fact that you can create them so easily you might end up with loads of them. ...

With the release of Office 365 Groups Office 365 users get the opportunity to create groups quickly and easily. Using these groups to collaborate over the complete stack of Office 365 rather than just teamsites can be a great win. However in some organizations a little bit more compliancy is required. ...