Welcome to this blog..

I have been lucky enough to be awarded a bursary for travel and costs for MicroSoft IGNITE courtesy of UCISA   Moreover, I have been invited to sessions to contribute to the roadmap of SharePoint and OneDrive.

I have asked colleagues at the University on their views and thoughts.  A couple of significant questions we’d like some insight on are:

• anecdotally, we have heard that there is a 16GB upload limit per Office365 tenancy.  Is that right? How does that work with “business as usual” traffic?
• there are some great new “templates” in SharePoint Online, such as Planner, Groups and Teams.  unlike common or garden site collections, we cannot see these as site collections in the usual way in the sharepoint admin area.  How can an organisation manage and govern such sites?  Additionally it would be great if we could set the default to be private during creation.  Yet we understand that these templates have been conceived to please the majority.

Another thought:  through observation of users one drive and the rationale of setting these so that only the user can see files?  In a script that i wrote to migrate SharePoint MySites to OneDrive, I had to explicitly and the SharePoint Admin as a secondary admin.  This is so that we can access their files in order that we can provide governance and support of the content.  Out of curiosity, why can’t an admin do that by default?

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