Webinar: Establish an information protection and privacy strategy for M365 and beyond
Automate how you discover, classify, and proactively protect sensitive information Tuesday January 18th, 2022 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 18:00 CET Information and data protection, done well, presents a long-term opportunity to establish greater trust with customers and unlock employee collaboration and productivity, whilst minimizing security incidents, breaches and regulatory penalties. Most organizations […]
How can the process of selecting an outfit help us sort our documents?
If you ever had an important event approaching such as attending a wedding or a job interview, most of the times you would go through a selection of outfits and lay them in front of you. Once selection is made, you hang your outfit in front of you to have it ready to use on […]
10 steps to secure your M365 environment (part 2)
This is the second blog in a series about actions your organization can take to improve the security of your Microsoft365 tenant. You can find the first introductory blog here. The previous blog described the “Security Defaults” in Azure Active Directory (AAD) as a means to quickly implement MFA across your entire organisation. The ease […]
How to best manage access in Microsoft 365
To enable an effective digital workplace, access needs to be set correctly. Non-sensitive information should be accessible to enable knowledge sharing and reuse, while sensitive information should be restricted and protected. In Microsoft 365 (M365), search results will only show information that you have access to. If access is set wrong, users will not know […]
Adaptive Policy Scopes – M365 Retention
If you follow the latest announcements from the Microsoft Information Governance product team, then you must have already heard about a new feature in the Microsoft Information governance and retention management solutions space. Its called the Adaptive Policy Scopes. We have been a part of the preview program and have been testing this amazing feature. […]
Metadata hierarchies in SharePoint Online
Metadata in SharePoint Online is used to find and manage files. The metadata may be free-form text or numbers entered by users, or it may have pre-defined values and vocabularies that users pick or are set as default on the storage container, e.g., company name, department, country, process, document type. The latter makes it easier […]
Microsoft Records Management: 8 options for collaborative spaces
I have previously written about how to automate M365 Information Governance and Records Management, and I will in this post explain your Microsoft Records Management options for active collaborative spaces. In most scenarios, only the user will know when a collaborative document is final and should be declared as a record. Option 1: Get users […]
Automate Information Governance with M365 AI and Machine Learning
Earlier this year we did a webinar explaining how to automate information governance and records management in Microsoft 365 (M365), and I will in this blog post explain Sensitive Information Types, Trainable Classifiers, and SharePoint Syntex in more detail. Sensitive Information Types As part of the E3 license, you have Sensitive Information Types with 200+ […]
Multi-Stage Disposition Reviews in M365 Records Management
Disposition reviews are a very important part of Retention and Records Management features. Microsoft 365 Information governance & Records Management workloads have had the ability for information managers / records managers to make sure information goes through a review cycle before its end of life. This process of reviewing information to confirm its deletion is […]
Retention for Exchange, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online
An important M365 design decision is to determine if all information should have a lifecycle, not just records. Research by the Compliance Governance & Oversight Council found that in average, 25% of information has business value, 5% is subject to regulatory record keeping requirements, 2% is subject to legal hold, and 68% is redundant, outdated, […]
