Govern Office 365
Office 365 is as difficult to wrangle as it is valuable. Leverage best practices to produce governance outcomes aligned with your goals.
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Critical Insight
Map your organizational goals to the administration features available in the Office 365 console. Your governance should reflect your requirements.
Impact and Result
The result is a defined plan for controlling Office 365 by leveraging hard controls to align Microsoft’s toolset with your needs and creating acceptable use policies and communication plans to highlight the impact of the transition to Office 365 on the end-user population.
Govern Office 365
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Understand the challenges posed by governing Office 365 and the necessity of deploying proper governance.
1. Define your organizational goals
Develop a list of organizational goals that will enable you to leverage the Office 365 toolset to its fullest extent while also implementing sensible governance.
2. Control your Office 365 environment
Use Info-Tech's toolset to build out controls for OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams that align with your organizational goals as they relate to governance.
3. Communicate your results
Communicate the results of your Office 365 governance program using Info-Tech's toolset.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.7/10
Overall Impact
$28,329
Average $ Saved
33
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority
Guided Implementation
9/10
$5,000
5
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Workshop
10/10
$19,839
10
Government of Yukon
Workshop
10/10
$75,000
90
Rosens Diversified
Guided Implementation
10/10
$29,139
60
Ottawa Police
Guided Implementation
9/10
$10,000
10
OpenText Corporation
Guided Implementation
10/10
$30,999
20
Onsite Workshop: Govern Office 365
Onsite workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Define Goals
The Purpose
- Develop a plan to assess the capabilities of the Office 365 solution and select licensing for the product.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Office 365 capability assessment (right-size licensing)
- Acceptable Use Policies
- Mapped Office 365 controls
Activities
Outputs
Review organizational goals.
- List of organizational goals
Evaluate Office 365 capabilities.
Conduct the Office 365 capability assessment.
Define user groups.
Finalize licensing.
- Targeted licensing decision
Module 2: Build Refined Governance Priorities
The Purpose
- Leverage the Office 365 governance framework to develop and refined governance priorities.
- Build a SharePoint acceptable use policy and define SharePoint controls.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Refined governance priorities
- List of SharePoint controls
- SharePoint acceptable use policy
Activities
Outputs
Explore the Office 365 Framework.
Conduct governance priorities refinement exercise.
- Refined governance priorities
Populate the Office 365 control map (SharePoint).
- SharePoint control map
Build acceptable use policy (SharePoint).
- Sharepoint acceptable use policy
Module 3: Control Office 365
The Purpose
- Implement governance priorities for OneDrive and Teams.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clearly defined acceptable use policies for OneDrive and Teams
- List of OneDrive and Teams controls
Activities
Outputs
Populate the Office 365 Control Map (OneDrive).
- OneDrive controls
Build acceptable use policy (OneDrive).
- OneDrive acceptable use policy
Populate the Office 365 Control Map (Teams).
- Teams controls
Build acceptable use policy (Teams).
- Teams acceptable use policy
Module 4: SOW Walkthrough
The Purpose
Build a plan to communicate coming changes to the productivity environment.
Key Benefits Achieved
Communication plan covering SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive
Activities
Outputs
Build SharePoint one pager.
- SharePoint one pager
Build OneDrive one pager.
- OneDrive one pager
Build Teams one pager.
- Teams one pager
Finalize communication plan.
- Overall finalized communication plan
Module 5: Communicate and Implement
The Purpose
- Finalize deliverables and plan post-workshop communications.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed Office 365 governance plan
- Finalized deliverables
Activities
Outputs
Completed in-progress deliverables from previous four days.
- Completed acceptable use policies
- Completed control map
- Completed communication plan
- Completed licensing decision
Set up review time for workshop deliverables and to discuss next steps.
Validate governance with stakeholders.
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Guided Implementation #1 - Define your organizational goals
- Call #1 - Conduct a goals exercise and introduce the capability assessment.
Guided Implementation #2 - Control your Office 365 environment
- Call #1 - Refine governance objectives.
- Call #2 - Build out controls (repeat this call for all relevant services).
Guided Implementation #3 - Communicate your results
- Call #1 - Formalize governance and build out one pagers.
- Call #2 - Finalize communication plan.
Contributors
- Jorge Carvalho, Collaboration Solutions Architect, LendLease
- Bryan Mierzejewski, VP, Network & Security Manager, Guilford Savings Bank
- Charles Nguyen, VP of Strategic Partnerships, NetGovern
- Chris Kershaw, Manager Enterprise Information Management, Strathcona County
- Dan Nobles, Senior Systems Specialist, Alabama Department of Environmental Management
- Harry Fukasawa, Executive Senior Advisor, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings America, Inc.
- Joerg Meissner, Sr. Architect Azure/O365, Ovatio Technologies
- Mathieu Duhamel, IT Application Director, Richter
- Pankaj Srivastava, JGM, Office of CIO, Nayara Energy
- Phil Yaghi, Director, Sales Engineering, Hyalto
- Steven Smith, IT Infrastructure Manager, Seattle Housing Authority
- One anonymous contributor