Team and Site Provisioning
Provisioning is a structured process of creating Microsoft Teams and SharePoint sites within the Microsoft 365 environment.
What is a provisioning engine?
A provisioning engine is a piece of software, hosted in the cloud, which manages Microsoft 365 team and site provisioning on behalf of your organisation.
A provisioning engine, like Proven by CompanyNet, helps you prevent site and team sprawl, and spot any potential security or governance challenges before they become a problem.
In Microsoft 365 Team and Site Provisioning, new sites are created automatically in accordance with the organisation’s own data, security and governance policies.
Proven – The expert provisioning engine for Microsoft 365
Proven is a new approach to provisioning. It helps keep your digital workplace in great shape, and frees up your administrators’ time to focus on what matters.
Some of Proven’s key benefits are:
Friendly Bot
Exceptional Service
Easy-to-use Dashboard
There are now all kinds of ways to collaborate on Office 365 – such as Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups and SharePoint Team and Communication sites.
But that variety and choice means your Office 365 administrators are facing a challenge keeping on top of your digital estate. Even simply deciding what type of workspace to provision can be tricky.
Overall, choosing a Microsoft 365 provisioning engine offers several advantages, including streamlined user management, enhanced security through automated compliance, and seamless integration with existing Microsoft services. It simplifies onboarding and offboarding processes, enabling organisations to efficiently manage user accounts and permissions in real time.
Additionally, the engine’s scalability supports businesses of all sizes, while its ability to automate repetitive tasks reduces administrative overhead and boosts productivity. Overall, it facilitates a more agile, organised, and secure IT environment aligned with organisational needs.
Common questions
These are questions that Office 365 by itself doesn’t answer, which is where third-party provisioning tools usually come in.
For example:
- How do we roll-out? – App by app? Switch it all on?
- Who looks after what? Support, training?
- Who manages security and compliance?
- Self-service? Self-management?
- How do we keep it ‘Evergreen’?
- Do our users need a site or a team – or both?
- How should I archive unused sites, groups and teams?
- What about naming conventions?
- What if I need to upgrade all our sites in the future?
- Should we create an Office 365 group?
Solving the Challenge of Site and Team Provisioning
We know there are several provisioning solutions out there which make the creation and management of digital workspaces easier.
But, once deployed, these tools usually need an in-house expert to actually use and maintain them and make the investment a success.
At CompanyNet, we think there is a better way – a blend of expert managed services and provisioning tools we call ‘Proven’.
Proven puts our experienced team’s advice and specially-developed, proprietary toolset in your admins’ corner – it comes in three parts.
- Rather than using complex or daunting forms, we give you a friendly bot to help take your users through the provisioning process.
- We provide an expert managed service, including one-to-one support for any questions you might have.
- We provide a powerful dashboard that gives you instant, actionable insights into the shape of your Office 365 estate.
Through this service, we hope to help businesses change the way their Microsoft Office 365 tenants are managed for the better, making administrators’ lives easier while helping to drive digital transformation.
SharePoint Online Provisioning Service
Our small, friendly team has some of the UK’s most experienced and knowledgeable experts in digital workplaces, new ways of working, and change management.
We’ve poured that knowledge and experience into Proven.
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What you’ll get from the assessment:
- An understanding of how your business can develop a Modern Workplace
- Clear advice on any challenges your business may face and how to overcome them
- A clear pathway for your business to take, with guidance on adoption and deployment