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SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By : Patrick Tucker
Book Image

SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By: Patrick Tucker

Overview of this book

After opening a toolbox full of tools, it can initially be hard to know which is the right one for the job – which tool works best and when. Showing you how to create an informed and purposeful plan for SharePoint Online in the context of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools is what this book is all about. SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide will help you understand all you can do with SharePoint. Whether the tools are new to you or you’ve used the older versions in the past, your journey will start by learning about the building blocks. This book is not a step-by-step guide; there are tons of online resources to give you that and to help you better keep up with the pace of change. This book is a planning guide, helping you with the context, capabilities, and considerations for implementing SharePoint Online in the most successful way possible. Whether you need to plan a new intranet, migrate files to a modern platform, or take advantage of tools such as Power Platform, Teams, and Planner, this guide will help you get to grips with the technology, ask the right questions to build your plan, and successfully implement it from the technical and user adoption perspectives. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll be able to perceive the toolbox as a whole and efficiently prepare a planning and governance document for use in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1:From Farm to Cloud
5
Part 2:From Lone Wolf to Pack Leader – SPO Integrations with M365
9
Part 3:From Tall to Flat – SPO Information Architecture
13
Part 4:From Current to Change

Summary and planning document

In this chapter, we’ve explored how to secure and share sites and content in SPO. Many of the concepts are familiar to admins of SharePoint on-premises, but we saw a few distinctions made necessary with the addition of M365 groups. Adding someone to a group automatically adds them to the associated SharePoint site. Sharing only the site with them doesn’t bring all the other M365 groups’ connected resources along. We also looked at best practices for external sharing and how to both limit it and be notified of it using tools in the Microsoft Purview compliance center.

This information will help us set up the permissions of sites in the most effective way, and to be aware of the implications of M365 groups that we didn’t have to worry about on-premises. Since sharing is an extension of the permissions of an item or document outside the organization, we should also have the context we need to configure it well and control/monitor...