Category: SharePoint

  • Slides from Office 365 Saturday New York 2019

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    Last weekend I had a great privilege to speak at the awesome event in the heart of New York City. The topic was “Governance in the Modern Workplace: SharePoint, OneDrive, Groups, Teams, Flows, and PowerApps” and here are my slides: Governance in the Modern Workplace: SharePoint, OneDrive, Groups, Teams, Flows, and PowerApps from Toni Frankola…

  • Is SharePoint Down?

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    In SysKit, we rely heavily on cloud services like Office 365, Azure (DevOps), and a plethora of other cloud services we use daily. When one of these goes out, it is the equivalent of not having electricity; the company comes to a grinding halt. In the past couple of weeks, we had a number of…

  • Dodge phishing attacks with Office 365 Attack Simulator

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    In recent years the number of phishing emails I receive to my Office 365 mailbox reached alarming levels. The problem with most of these emails is that attackers know you are using Office 365 service and they try to lure you to enter your Office 365 credentials on a web page that copies Office 365…

  • Security snapshot of the day – SysKit Security Manager v6

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    You have probably encountered a couple of very talented people posting stunning photos of themselves or family every day/month/year, like this man who took a photo of himself and his son every year. At SysKit we are in the business of creating simple tools to manage complex systems. These complex systems are SharePoint, Office 365,…

  • Understanding SharePoint adoption with SPDocKit 9

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    I recently interviewed a lot of candidates for a position in our marketing department. These people came from various backgrounds like auto, retail, digital agencies and much more. I was really astonished how many people used SharePoint in their companies to share files and collaborate with colleagues. In the corporate world, SharePoint is everywhere. When…

  • SPDocKit 8 – They can share, but can’t hide

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    Our team has spent a good part of the last 12 months talking to customers large and small, trying to figure out what’s the next biggest pain they have in the day-to-day management of SharePoint systems. Our customers told us these are:

  • Rule Microsoft Teams and OneDrive with SysKit Security Manager

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    Backing the day when I started working with the SharePoint platform (SharePoint 2003) not everyone in your company could not easily obtain control or provision their site collection. When SharePoint Online was released as part of Office 365 you still had to negotiate with your Global Admin or SharePoint admin to get a site collection.…

  • Understanding the size of your SharePoint environment

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    When working with potential new customers we often ask “How large is your SharePoint farm environment?”. More often than not our customers don’t have all the information that is required to scope a proper SysKit SPDocKit or SysKit Insights project we need some of the following information: How many SharePoint (Production/Dev/QA/Test/…) farms there are in…

  • Introducing NewsPoint – latest SharePoint and Office 365 news in one place!

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    A couple of months ago we discussed internally in SysKit how we could help onboard new colleagues and get them up to speed with the latest news and developments about SharePoint, Office 365 and other topics related to Microsoft. There are many resources that come to mind like Microsoft Tech Community and SharePoint subreddit but…

  • Introducing New SharePoint and Office 365 Security Management Tool

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    Over the years SharePoint Online has evolved into an awesome platform. I started doing SharePoint work in the days of SharePoint 2003, and SharePoint has gone a long way since then. It is unbelievable how enjoyable is to show new communication sites to someone today as compared to SharePoint that was available in 2003. Office…