Microsoft Teams has been very popular in the business space from the last two years, mainly because it focuses in “collaboration” in the cloud with better productivity outcomes amongst companies who have adopted it already. To use Microsoft Teams to the full potential of it, it is necessary that you integrate it with Office 365 apps for your cloud business.

Microsoft SharePoint integration with Teams

We share a few best practices for a decent SharePoint Online integration with Microsoft Teams to provide Teams business benefits to SharePoint users in your cloud business:

• Keep your files organized

before you perform the integration, it is important to manage all your documents first and keep your files organized. Take advantage from SharePoint’s management capabilities to stay organized.

• Create Microsoft Team from existing SharePoint Site

Even though the SharePoint team site may have all the necessary files and documents you need to continue with the project, a full-fledge chat capability is always missing in SharePoint. Microsoft Teams provide that and you can create a new team in MS Teams and associate that with your SharePoint team site. With SharePoint Online integration in Teams, the files and documents can also be managed from MS Teams.

• Have a good governance plan

To make the integration, it is essential to have a good governance plan. In this way, once the changes being made, you have a strategy planned ahead of time. So, you have a good plan for every stage of your Teams rollout.

• Train your employees

Before you start SharePoint online integration with Teams and to attain Microsoft teams business benefits, you need to educate your employees. To be able to make best use of Microsoft Products that work together, it is important to make your employees aware of all the basic and advanced features of Office 365 tools.

• Establish a decent naming convention for O365 groups

With a well-established naming convention, you are in a position to enforce a policy through Azure AD. In this way, you can get rid of duplicates and have a neat and clean Teams deployment without things being in a mess.

MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft SharePoint Server

MachPanel is a full-fledge automation platform for Hosted SharePoint Service Providers and Enterprises. With best-in-line tools integrated for a seamless cloud provisioning and management, MachPanel makes your cloud business stay ahead of the curve with its simplified billing and built-in multi-tenancy and segregation for Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and older versions for cloud delivery and on-premise setup. MachSol also offers turn-key services for Microsoft SharePoint design and deployment with support from best Experts in the market for all stages of deployment.

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So, a SharePoint blog is like an out-of-the-box ready thing that you can just tailor it according to your niche requirements (pretty much like pre-cooked pasta that you can quickly toss into your favorite sauce, if that makes sense). On the other hand, a SharePoint Publishing Site is a more structured authoring and publishing site that is typically used to create a sharing and communication portal amongst enterprises.

Here’s a quick take on features of a blog and those of a Publishing site.

SharePoint Blog Site

As mentioned earlier, a blog can get you started with minimum amount of effort. You can just add your content, for which the SharePoint blog was initiated in the first place. Blogs can be easily integrated with Microsoft Word which makes them easy to publish Live directly from Microsoft Word. You won’t even have to specifically include pictures and videos if there are any, the integrated system does that for you automatically.  In addition to this, blogs have a commenting system built into them, so a blog is well-suited in the time when you plan to add comments and activity or discussions over your content. This becomes a drawback if you don’t wish to add a commenting system to your blog. Furthermore, there’s an option to add categories to your blog, so you can upload content for more than one type and that gets easier to navigate your blog. SharePoint also offers Views by categories feature.

SharePoint Publishing Site

A Publishing site is particularly useful if you need to generate content form a content hub. So, you can specify content types and have the control to manage the blog page fields. Using a Publishing Site, you can also create your own Page Layouts, design the page yourself and make changes of layout and fields whenever you wish. With this method, you can build everything yourself according to the company needs. So, with a Publishing Site, you are n more control of what is displayed and how is it displayed on-screen.

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Final thoughts…

After the overview of both options, it can be concluded that if you want a more personalized approach, Sites must be your choice. Nevertheless, Blogs prove beneficial when you want to start quickly without much design-oriented hassle.

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft SharePoint

MachPanel is a born-in-the-cloud business automation platform which provides Complete Orchestration for Hosted SharePoint Service Providers and Enterprises. With MachPanel, you get the control to deploy hosted SharePoint solution on the cloud with simplified billing, management and provisioning. It includes built-in multi-tenancy and segregation for Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and older versions for cloud delivery and on-premise setup. Experts at MachPanel are there to help you with your deployments and post-deployment issues. MachPanel offers Multi-tenant deployments, Groups Management, Vanity & SSL Site Collection, Automated Host header entries, Site Management, DNS Records, Multiple Domain Handling, SharePoint Users management in a site collection and many more features that can prove fruitful for any cloud business

Head over to MachPanel to cater for your SharePoint deployment and needs for a successful SharePoint for business provision and management.

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As promised in the public preview, there are many new features that were expected from SharePoint 2019 user all over theworld like trends in team collaboration, blending of cloud and on-premise versions, better cross-device user experience and many more. It’s built on the same platform as SharePoint Server 2016; the new SharePoint Server 2019 fulfills the needs of performances and scalability expectations to the maximum.

Let’s have a closer look at what compelling features are there in this new release:

1. Trendy Sites:

Connecting Team and content together, sites have always played the role of core collaboration across organization. Modern design is effective and captivating, with a touch of flexibility and ease-of-use.

1. Excellent User Experience:

In today’s era, user experience is everything, when it comes to new technology. Not even the new SharePoint Server 2019 is catchy in ‘look and feel’, but is engaging, entertaining and rich with contextual content. It ensures reliability, security and minimum complexity.

1. Modern Pages:

SharePoint 2019 introduces a new way of sharing content using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents, images, embedding video content, and many more. Modern pages shall be published efficiently and in a quicker manner that are good for each display.

1. Improved Lists:

The modern list experience in SharePoint Server 2019 is more responsive, more intuitive and provides the best combination of Microsoft SharePoint with OneDrive usability.

1. Communication Sites:

Next Gen mobile collaboration and better intelligent intranet makes working together a fruitful experience in the newest version of SharePoint server.

1. OneDrive for Business:

Providing improved mobile experience to SharePoint mobile users, it also makes collaboration and file storage people-centric and supports latest sync client generation with on derive for Business.

1. SharePoint Mobile:

Microsoft SharePoint 2019 provides all the necessary resources needed for a collaborative work flow within organization, and improved mobile experience for intranet is one of the core elements. It makes file sharing on-the-go which is more personalized and intelligent.

1. Growing File Support:

The offered file sizes have increased: up to 15GB, a few character restrictions are maintained with file names and path length restriction has been increased from 260 Unicode code units to 400.

MachPanel Automation Module for SharePoint Server 2019

Yes, you heard it right. MachPanel supports the services offered by SharePoint Server 2019 and hence can assist you in deployments smoothly and efficiently. Customers all over the world trust MachPanel with their SharePoint solutions and turnkey solution deployment services. Automation module for SharePoint Server supports other versions like SharePoint 2019, 2016 and 2013. It provides entire automation for on-premises SharePoint Server. It also offers selling of sell fully segregated multi-tenant hosted SharePoint environment.

It’s a great opportunity for CSPs to get their hands on MachPanel and deploy SharePoint Server 2019 in the most hassle-free manner.

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Companies still tend to keep their data inbound and hence prefer to go for SharePoint on-premises. Microsoft has known it for a long time and now it has finally announced many benefits for on-premises users in the upcoming SharePoint version which were initially available for SharePoint Online or Hybrid users only. Yet again, migration has been made easy in SharePoint Server 2019 and so users from SharePoint 2010, 2013 or 2016 will be looking forward to upgrade to get the new feel on the UI improvements, the modern sites, integrated support for libraries and most importantly they are eager to get their hands on the improved support for their business processes with Microsoft Flow and Microsoft Power Apps. With Microsoft SharePoint 2019, customers will be able to handle mission-critical workloads in a much reliable manner. With enhanced support collaboration the feature for better automation of business processes is also introduced, making SharePoint 2019 tentatively the most compelling and collaborative experience for users.

All these business incentives make Service Providers eager to begin offering the latest SharePoint Release and facilitate their customers from the features in a profitable manner. Not only SharePoint manages businesses in a modern and automated fashion but the chances of businesses to flourish by availing SharePoint on premises features are much high.

Let’s have a look at the features of SharePoint Server 2019 (on- premises) that make Service Providers consider offering SharePoint as a hosted service.

What’s New in SharePoint Server 2019

NextGen OneDrive Sync

With this feature available for on-premises users, much of the work flow of users will get easier. For Example: Documents from Emails will directly be saved to the relevant folder in OneDrive on the basis of user preference making workflow less tedious. In simple, SharePoint server 2019 will bring OneDrive features to the on-premises world and this will also include the Sync Client as is in Office 365.

PowerApps integration

With PowerApps being made available for on premises users, they will be able to change the way incidents are managed. With pre-built templates that reduce development time of business apps, which also doesn’t require much coding knowledge, business apps will be available for multiple mobile platforms.

Microsoft Flow

This feature allows for creating a flow of tasks or actions across different Microsoft applications. This makes workflows between Microsoft programs smoother and easier. Availability of Microsoft Flow automates commonplace recurring tasks and saves time.

A different User Experience

UX and UI improvements have been necessary for a better user experience. The UX improvements in document libraries and navigation methods that have been proved successful in Microsoft Office 365 have been introduced in SharePoint 2019 too.

Team News

Collaboration between teams is improved by announcing news to all team members. With Microsoft Teams integration with SharePoint, working in a team and collaboration has become much easier by the feature of Announcement for users of web and mobile.

Communication sites

This feature is much needed for communication and sharing of knowledge between teams in a more engaging and compelling format. With this feature available for on-perm users, anyone can make beautifully crafted content for example wiki pages that look visually appealing.

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MachPanel and SharePoint

MachPanel is a multi-cloud service Orchestration and Delivery Platform that provides automation to your SharePoint Deployments securely. It is a trusted hosted solution that simplifies scalability. Its business automation flow makes processes and end-to-end management easier.

MachPanel gives you the benefit of managing users; perform site management, self-service tools, multiple hosted and dedicated platforms. With MachPanel, you can gain a competitive edge in the market and stay ahead of the line. MachSol offers a full set of services that facilitate Service providers and make deployments an easy task with its post-deployment support.  Since it ensures maximum uptime, MachPanel is a promising automation control panel having all the features of a trendy Control Panel in 2018.

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