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Microsoft 365
Practical choices in a managed Microsoft 365 tenant — not a product brochure.
Double-booked meeting rooms: how an SME should book rooms and equipment in Microsoft 365
Two teams turn up for the same meeting room, or nobody knows who has the pool car. How an SME lets staff book rooms and equipment properly in Outlook and Teams…
Retiring the office server: how an SME moves from on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID
Email and files moved to Microsoft 365 long ago, yet the server in the cupboard still runs for sign-in. How an SME retires that last server safely…
Microsoft Teams sprawl: how an SME should control who creates teams and clean them up
Three teams called ‘Project’, a team without an owner and nobody knows where the contract is stored. How an SME prevents Teams sprawl…
Mailbox full: how an SME should use the online archive in Microsoft 365
“Your mailbox is almost full.” Ignore that warning and you only notice when customers get their email bounced. The online archive solves it, without PST files on the laptop…
Rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot: why an SME should clean up file permissions first
An employee asks Copilot for “an overview of salaries” and simply gets it. Not because of a flaw in Copilot, but because of a folder that has been shared too widely for years…
Files on the desktop: how an SME should move Desktop and Documents to OneDrive automatically
The quote is “just on the desktop for now”. Until the laptop breaks or is stolen. How to make sure those folders end up in OneDrive by themselves…
Windows Autopilot: how an SME should set up a new laptop without manual work
No more afternoons lost to installing a laptop. With Windows Autopilot a new workplace sets itself up as soon as the employee signs in…
Unused Microsoft 365 licences: how an SME should check its licences and save money
A licence for someone who left months ago, or Premium for someone who only does email. How to find the licences you are paying for unnecessarily in an hour…
From the old file server to SharePoint: how an SME should move folders and permissions
The shared drive has been full of folders nobody dares to delete for years. How to move it to SharePoint without colleagues losing their files on Monday…
Former IT partner still in your Microsoft 365: how an SME checks partner relationships and admin access
You switched to a different IT partner years ago. But can the previous one still sign in to your Microsoft 365? Here is how to check in fifteen minutes…
Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard or Premium: which licence an SME should choose
Everyone has the same licence because that is how it was ordered years ago. But who really needs what? How to choose between Basic, Standard and Premium…
External chat in Teams: when an SME should restrict messages from unknown organisations
An unknown ‘helpdesk’ sends a Teams message asking to take a quick look: why that is possible and how an SME restricts external chat…