There are thousands of tools that support Microsoft 365 migrations, administration, governance, communication, custom application development and collaboration workloads. This article provides a classification system for these tools that we use in scoping each article in our Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence Series of articles, an ambitious undertaking to catalog, detail and compare everyContinue reading “Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Series Overview 2021”
Author Archives: Mark Parsons
Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Migrations 2021
Anyone who has been working in the SharePoint ecosystem for any period of time knows that the title of this blog post, “Every SharePoint Migration Tool…” is a bold statement. Purpose of this article: The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the SharePoint Online / Teams / OneDrive migration toolsContinue reading “Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Migrations 2021”
Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Governance Automation 2021
The primary goal of this article is to educate IT executives and technologies on the roles and capabilities of governance automation tools available for Microsoft 365. In this article, we’ll answer the following questions: Why do I need governance in Microsoft 365? How does M365 governance fit with overall IT governance? What should the roleContinue reading “Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Governance Automation 2021”
Distributed Logic Corp. Partners with ReplaceMagic
Every so often we come across a technology that we know will make a fast and positive impact for our clients and our work. We’re excited to announce that we’ve found such a technology and partner in ReplaceMagic, a software built to address an often overlooked issue: broken document links that surface after a SharePointContinue reading “Distributed Logic Corp. Partners with ReplaceMagic”
Timing is everything: how to achieve efficient intranet builds and roll-outs
Having a clean and powerful intranet is a “must have” for organizations. It’s where employees stay up to date, communicate, and access important information such as policies, procedures, forms, documents, and templates. The intranet is also a pivotal part of defining and instilling company culture and collaboration across departments and geographies. At Distributed Logic, weContinue reading “Timing is everything: how to achieve efficient intranet builds and roll-outs”
Collaborative Design: are the right stakeholders at the intranet table?
We have all been part of projects that get stuck in loops of feedback. It’s a painful place to be, and it’s the primary reason that we developed our Collaborative Design stage for intranet builds. It’s a crucial step to avoid going down the path of the endless project. Whether the intranet build is intricateContinue reading “Collaborative Design: are the right stakeholders at the intranet table?”
Prevent the collaboration free-for-all! Get governance in place for Microsoft Teams
We’ve been vocal about the rise of Microsoft Teams as a collaboration tool, and think that for most clients it is a better tool than Slack or Skype for Business. In fact, Teams is deceptively simple for such a complex tool, and if users are left to their own devices (pun intended) there are countlessContinue reading “Prevent the collaboration free-for-all! Get governance in place for Microsoft Teams”
Winter is coming…and 2018
With 2018 quickly approaching, we’re working with our clients to plan priorities and budgets for the New Year. Most organizations that we come across understand that even if Office 365 is their toolbox of choice, it isn’t a plug-and-play solution. Indeed, there is a wide range of combinations within O365 that can create a highlyContinue reading “Winter is coming…and 2018”
Move Fast – Your Users Aren’t Waiting for You
As cloud services are now more the norm, it’s easy for employees to use a multitude of collaboration tools for free or for a nominal monthly fee. While this might seem at first to take some of the burden off IT departments, it quickly sprawls. You start to see tickets and support calls come inContinue reading “Move Fast – Your Users Aren’t Waiting for You”
The Classic vs. Modern SharePoint Showdown: is it time to get Modern?
We’ve discussed before how quickly things move in the SharePoint world; we know how important it is to stay up to date so that our clients don’t have to. Part and parcel to that, however, is our belief that new doesn’t necessarily equal better, so we don’t always rush to recommend the latest release. SuchContinue reading “The Classic vs. Modern SharePoint Showdown: is it time to get Modern?”
Teams, Slack and Spark: A product comparison
In our previous post, “Filling the communication and collaboration gap” we walked through how the evolution of Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC) services and the Enterprise Collaboration Market (ECM) are not only inevitable, but already happening – and at a rapid pace. Disruptive newcomers have dominated persistent messaging collaboration almost by accident. Slack, for example,Continue reading “Teams, Slack and Spark: A product comparison”
Filling the communication and collaboration gap
The days of Milton from Office Space being sequestered in a basement are long gone: team collaboration is the key to enterprise success, and any thriving organization knows it. Employee productivity is often predicated on their ability to interface with team members, whether in the office next door or an ocean away. Until recently, though,Continue reading “Filling the communication and collaboration gap”
Multi-Geo 365: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
Data residency laws require that certain types of sensitive data be stored “at-rest” in a specific physical or geographic location. With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on May 25th, 2018, an inability to meet residency requirements could be costly; the current iteration of the regulation allows for fines up toContinue reading “Multi-Geo 365: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?”
OneDrive Sync Issues – A Light at the End of the Tunnel
If you are an Enterprise customer with Microsoft these days, you’re likely wrestling with timing on when to pull the trigger and launch OneDrive for Business (Office 365) for your end users. Until recently, this has been a frustrating experience for IT and their users as the sync technology (re-branded Groove) has been riddled withContinue reading “OneDrive Sync Issues – A Light at the End of the Tunnel”