Pay as you Flow: Why you should probably disable Microsoft’s self-service Power Platform
You might want to consider disabling self-service subscriptions to PowerBI, PowerApps and Power Automate before it’s released to your tenant on January 14th, 2020....
Project Cortex – what is it and how will it transform productivity?
It’s not easy to emphasise just how much of a step-change Project Cortex provides; it really could well be the most significant addition to Office 365 we’ve seen in years.
How difficult is moving into Microsoft 365 Development for a junior web developer?
As a new member of the team here at Intelogy, I’m approaching Microsoft 365 development from a background of web development. I’m moving on from the familiarity of the staple web languages to exploring new languages.
The end of Skype for Business Online is near
By the end of July 2021, the days of skyping colleagues will be a distant memory as new technology takes over. In September 2019, Microsoft discontinued the presence, messaging and video conferencing service for new Office 365 subscriptions.
Execute your marketing strategy with Office 365
At Intelogy, we’ve seen more and more organisations asking about Office 365 being implemented, most recently into marketing teams. As the Marketing Manager at Intelogy, it made me think about how I execute marketing with Office 365 on a day-to-day basis.
Justifying custom software development
When we have very specific needs or standards that are important to us, off-the-shelf can seem to be too much of a compromise to warrant the cost, so we start considering if extra cost might get us something that would be better value in the long term.
How To: Populate a Multi-Select Column in SharePoint from Forms
When you use Microsoft Forms, sometimes you may wish to export responses automatically into a SharePoint list in order to process the information captured.
Office 365 – New Records Management
Over the past few months, the observant amongst you will have noticed the new ‘Records management’ section appear within Office 365’s Security & Compliance Center. This area collates some of the core EDRM functionality provided by Office 365 into a new shared space, providing a logical home for records management within Office 365, which I imagine will grow over time.
Whitepaper: Advanced identity and data security in Microsoft 365
Whilst there are many positives that can be gleaned from cloud-based working environments, they do introduce new challenges, and the way we think about security needs to change.
Intelogy announced as a Microsoft Content Services 2020 Charter Partner
For the second year running, Intelogy is proud to be announced as a charter partner for the Microsoft Content Services Partner Program. Microsoft launched this programme to recognise their principal partners in content services, which supports delivering solutions that make the transformation of content management approaches practical and attainable.
Trust as a Cloud Supplier
During my recent pilgrimage to the Microsoft Inspire conference in Las Vegas, I was struck by many thoughts following talks from various excellent speakers, but one has continued to nag away at me.
Video: Microsoft Teams Explained in 60 Seconds
Video: Microsoft Teams Explained in 60 Seconds Microsoft Teams has been built as an all-round team collaborating tool, allowing users to share and collaborate on projects with popular Office 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, and Power BI, as well as third-party apps. In this video, we discuss the function of Microsoft Teams.
How to govern Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is rapidly becoming a central part of the collaboration story within many organisations. As a direct replacement for Skype for Business, it’s obvious to see why.
SharePoint Saturday: The Round Up
Rob Bath, our Information Management & Compliance Lead spoke to attendees about real world records management within Office 365, providing attendees with an introduction to the Information Governance community, their needs, priorities and relationship with IT.
Information Management Survey
Intelogy is running a short survey to learn more about the challenges facing Information Managers. We'd welcome your input.
Intelogy to speak at SharePoint Saturday, London
SharePoint Saturday joins the world's premier experts in Office 365, SharePoint and Azure for a day of learning and networking.
The Pros and Cons of Shadow IT
Back in 2016, Gartner predicted that by 2020 one third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their Shadow IT resources. Now in May 2019 and less than a year away from 2020, let’s take a look at the pros and cons of Shadow IT.
What is Shadow IT?
Have you ever been sent a Facebook message about company business? Have you been sent links to content in private Dropbox spaces?
Are Content Types Dying?
Content Types have been an integral part of pretty much every SharePoint solution I’ve overseen in the past decade or so, whether enterprise-scale intranet, custom application, or records management system. As such, I felt that it was essential to evaluate the evidence and read the tea leaves for myself.
Intelogy makes a difference in Malawi
How do you make the most of a technology refresh and recycle your old IT equipment in a way that benefits the greater good?
Confused by all the different security and compliance centers?
I logged into one of my tenancies earlier this week to discover that new Microsoft 365 security center and the new Microsoft 365 compliance center are now available. Given that in most organisations the responsibility for securing the platform is typically quite distinct from the job of data governance, I personally see this change as a good step forward.
Intelogy’s Robert Bath named IRMS SharePoint and Office 365 Group Technical Officer
Intelogy’s Information Management & Compliance Practice Lead, Robert Bath, named IRMS SharePoint and Office 365 Group Technical Officer.
Intelogy gains Cyber Essentials Certification 2019
Intelogy has gained the Cyber Essentials certification in 2019, awarded from the National Cyber Security Centre, part of the Government communication headquarters.
Intelogy to present at Celtic Manor, Wales on Monday 20th May 2019
Intelogy’s Information Management & Compliance Practice Lead, Robert Bath, will be leading discussions on Retention Labels in Office 365 at the IRMS Conference on Monday 20th May at Celtic Manor, Wales.
Microsoft Teams – The Skype for Business Takeover
Teams is just under a couple of years old, but it’s become the fastest growing business product in Microsoft history, already used by 87 Fortune 100 companies.
Intelogy to attend Nintex World Tour 2019, Thursday 14th March
As a long-standing Nintex Partner, Intelogy is delighted to be attending the Nintex World Tour on Thursday 14th March in London.
Why do folders get such a bad press?
The SharePoint community seems pretty united in their dislike of folders. The overwhelming consensus is that metadata is superior, while folders are merely a hangover from the bad old days of legacy file shares. Blog, after blog has provided lists of reasons why folders should be avoided and why metadata is king.
Who can associate a site with a SharePoint Hub?
I’m sure many of you will have started making use of hub sites. If you haven’t, why not? Hub sites provide a clean and intuitive way of structuring content in SharePoint Online, which are ready to use out of the box.
About Intelogy: The Intelogy Culture
Intelogy is recruiting, that’s evident from our blog posts and Tweets. One of the questions we are asked most frequently by young people who come in for interviews is “What’s the Intelogy office culture like?”...
Intelogy announced as a SharePoint Business Applications Charter Partner
Intelogy is proud to be announced as a Charter Partner for the SharePoint Business Applications Partner Program.
Intelogy to present at IRMS Public Sector Event, Westminster Archives on Friday 15th March
Intelogy's Information Management & Compliance Practice Lead, Robert Bath, will be leading discussions on SharePoint and Office 365 at the IRMS Public Sector Event on Friday 15th March.
Incoming: new Microsoft 365 security and compliance offerings
Microsoft has just announced two new packages for helping to ensure that your end-to-end Microsoft 365 experience is both secured and compliant. These new offerings take functionality that’s currently only available within the E5 licence and make it available to organisations using alternative licences.
Keeping up with SharePoint Online
The rate of change across Office 365 is blistering, as Microsoft continue to provide new functionality across the tenancy. Over the past few weeks there have been a large number of improvements made right across SharePoint Online, which this post explores.
Video: Intelogy – Microsoft Content Services Partner
Take a look at our latest video in which we outline our approach to content services and the Microsoft Content Services Partner Program.
6 Ways to Streamline Your IT in 2019
There’s the saying ‘start as you mean to go on’. So why not apply that to your IT solutions? With a new year that's just begun, here are just a few examples of how you can streamline your IT with Microsoft 365 in 2019.
Intelogy presents at the Westminster Archives, London to members of the Information and Records Management Society
Our Information Management & Compliance lead Robert Bath presented on Friday 7th December at the Westminster Archives, London, to members of the Information and Records Management Society’s (IRMS) Public Sector to share guidance about Microsoft 365’s Data Governance features.
Making Sense of Microsoft Cloud Licensing
In the early days of the Microsoft Cloud, BPOS and Office 365, there wasn't much choice, but years later and an explosion of services and offerings means we face a somewhat overwhelming array of plans, entitlements, consumption models, SKUs and add-ons.
Intelogy attends the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference
Intelogy are in Copenhagen today at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference, having been asked by Microsoft to join them on the panel for the Microsoft 365 Partner/Customer Luncheon.
Power Up with Power BI
Easily create reports and dashboards which you can share with anyone and access from apps on Windows, iOS and Android. Some features are free, others require a monthly subscription.
Microsoft again recognised as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms
Microsoft has pioneered intelligent content services in Microsoft 365 to help customers achieve more. And the industry has taken note.
Video: Microsoft Power BI Explained in 60 Seconds
What's your knowledge of Microsoft Power BI? In this 60 second video, we take a look at Power BI and what it's used for.
Intelogy Goes Stateside at Microsoft HQ, Seattle
Intelogy have just returned from Redmond, WA, where we discussed how Microsoft is redefining enterprise content management (ECM), in order to focus on meeting custom needs in collaboration, compliance and document management.
The human side of automation
Much of what we do as IT professionals is helping to make a complex and constantly evolving field more accessible - to realise what these awesome ‘robots’ can do and allay the fears and concerns many have. However, we have a habit of focusing on the technology, that’s normal, we understand and embrace the technology.
Video: What is Microsoft 365?
Microsoft 365 can help you meet the demands of a modern workplace, but what exactly is it, and what is it made up of?
Licence or License?
I’m prone to occasional outbursts about spelling and grammar and recently was asked to provide the Intelogy team with some guidance on correct spelling: is it LICENSE or LICENCE?
Video: Introduction to Intelligent Process Automation
Intelligent Process Automation can be the key to digital transformation in any company, enabling your workflow to be streamlined and a cultural shift to take place. In this video, we outline exactly what Intelligent Process Automation is and how it can benefit your company.
Intelogy attends the IRMS Office 365 and Social Media Archiving event as a speaker
Intelogy were pleased to present at the IRMS Midlands Office 365 and Social Media Archiving event on Tuesday (25th September) at the Peak District National Park Authority in Bakewell.
Intelogy announced as a Microsoft Content Services 2019 Charter Partner
Intelogy is proud to be announced as a charter partner for the Microsoft Content Services Partner Program. Microsoft launched this programme to recognise their principal partners in content services, which supports delivering solutions that make the transformation of content management approaches practical and attainable.
Office 365 – It’s more than you think
For many people, when they hear Office 365, they think of the usual Microsoft programmes – Excel; Word; PowerPoint; Outlook – but there’s a lot more to Office 365 waiting to be discovered.
Three reasons to introduce your team to Yammer
There's a number of applications included with Office 365, and one of them is Yammer. If your organisation isn’t familiar with Yammer, it may be time to introduce them.
What’s new in Office 365 – August 2018
While many of us have enjoyed some sort of time off this summer, the Office 365 engineering teams have maintained a steady release cycle. Here's what's new.
Video: How Microsoft Teams benefits Marketing
Marketing campaigns take time and require thorough planning, so it’s understandable if it proves frustrating for your campaign to be mis-communicated, delayed or held up. In this video, we discuss how these issues can be erased by implementing Microsoft Teams for marketing purposes.
Video: Addressing the fears of SharePoint customisation
How much can your customisation be transferred to updated platforms?
Whitepaper: Records Management in Office 365 has never been cheaper
Records Management in Office 365 has never been cheaper, while the risks of non-compliance have never been greater...
Making sense of Microsoft’s Threat Protection
Not only has the attack surface changed, but the type of attack and the frequency at which attempts to attack are made means that your protection platform needs to be up to the challenge.
How Microsoft Teams makes the difference in Marketing
If you asked your colleagues what's happening in the Marketing Department, what would their response be?
Webinar Re-cap: Introduction to Document Management 101
In case you missed it, we recorded our webinar session, which covers some of the core approaches to setting up a successful document storage area within SharePoint or Office 365.
Intelogy attends IRMS Scotland Group’s summer event as a key speaker
Intelogy were proud to present to information management specialists from across Scotland at IRMS Group’s Summer Event.
What’s new in Office 365 – July 2018
Lots of new features and updates were released across Office 365 this month. In our monthly update, we focus on OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint.
Introduction to Microsoft 365
Following our Microsoft 365 webinar, this blog post is a high level overview of Microsoft 365.
What’s new in Office 365 – June 2018
It’s been a fun month looking at some new features launching in Office 365, some of which I had no idea were coming! Let's take a look.
Assigning Microsoft Flow approvals to SharePoint Groups
How to retrieve members from a SharePoint group and assign them to an approval task in Flow.
How to facilitate Subject Access Requests in Office 365
Office 365 provides some useful tools to help make the technical side of identifying and exporting content simple.
What’s new in Office 365 – May 2018
With May being the month of the SharePoint Conference this roundup focuses on what's new in Office 365 in May 2018.
Reflecting on SharePoint Conference announcements
On Monday 21-May, Microsoft delivered the keynote speech at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas.
What’s new in Office 365 – April 2018
Despite the SharePoint Conference being just around the corner, Microsoft has not slowed down the release of new features into Office 365 this month. Here’s our take on what’s new.
GDPR in a nutshell
Do the new GDPR requirements fill you with fear or bore you to tears? You're not alone.
Mapping SharePoint hub sites
This article helps you map out your hub site structure using PowerShell and draw.io.
What’s new in Office 365 – March 2018
Here is our latest round-up of what’s new in Office 365. There have been some big announcements and we are excited to share our thoughts on what’s been unveiled.
GDPR compliance within Office 365
Microsoft has been updating the capabilities provided within Office 365, making it easier to abide by the core GDPR tenets. This article helps you understand how these features can be used in your organisation.
What to expect in SharePoint 2019
At the Ignite 2017 conference, Microsoft announced plans for the next on-premises release of their industry leading enterprise content management application, SharePoint Server 2019.
The 21st Century site
Drive efficiency with quick and easy mobile applications
What’s new in Office 365 – February 2018
See what's new in SharePoint Admin Center, Planner, OneDrive for Business and more!
A quick lap around the new SharePoint Admin Center preview
Microsoft unveiled a new admin center for SharePoint Online at the SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2017, promising to bring a simpler, more intuitive experience via a new modern user interface.
There’s an elephant in the workflow room
Flow is an excellent tool, but there are several reasons why we do not lead with Flow just yet.
Where’s that template again?
We used to have a joke at a company I once worked for: find the latest company PowerPoint template! Oh, how we’d laugh!
What’s new in Office 365 – January 2018
The release cycle of Office 365 shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, quite the opposite seems to be true and no more so this month.
Metrics that matter
You can gain great metrics by asking the right questions to relevant users and getting users in the right mindset to answer them productively.
Lessons learnt about SharePoint migrations can simplify your move to Office 365.
I thought I would share some lessons we learnt that can easily be applied to any of our future migration projects.
What’s new in Flow?
There seem to be some interesting announcements coming up for Microsoft Flow at ignite.
What’s new in PowerApps?
Ladies and Gentlemen, PowerApps has been around for a couple of years now, but it looks like it's finally ready.
SharePoint Hub sites: Some initial thoughts
SharePoint hub sites were announced as a new site type by Microsoft at Ignite 2017.
5 easy steps to user adoption
Make your intranet a useful starting point rather than a necessary evil.
Pack your bags kids, we’re heading for the cloud!
Whatever the size, industry, or maturity of your organisation, the cloud is the way forward, and here’s why.
Importance of white-space in web design
Make your website an easily consumable place for your readers