Over the course of my life so far, I have owned quite a few vehicles. Unfortunately, some have not been very reliable. Living in a cold Canadian climate, I prioritize not being stuck on the side of the road in freezing temperatures, and so I put a lot of effort into and importance on making sure my vehicles are in as good a working condition as possible. For some of them, that was harder, but in reality, a vehicle is a very complex system, and ultimately while there are some things that I could do myself, I often trust the professionals to make sure that the more complex pieces are in good working order.
SharePoint is also a very complex system and has a lot of pitfalls which could unfortunately leave you "stranded on the side of the road" if not managed properly. The complex and intricate nature of the Microsoft 365 stack results in a lot of less visible an often-obfuscated small risks that may be invisible to most users and administrators. It's important to note that these invisible risks are not a failure of your knowledge, instead they are simply just small things that people who work with Microsoft 365 day in, and day out learn through experience. Much like a vehicle has very complex systems which require training and experience, our experienced resources are ready to bring lessons learned to the table in order to provide the best advice.
In order to identify these pitfalls and assess for invisible risks, organizations should consider doing a SharePoint health check once in a while to identify opportunities for improvement and solidify ways to avoid risks throughout the Microsoft 365 environment.
Cadence Solutions offers a SharePoint health check, which over the course of two to three months will have our team of SharePoint experts assess over 130 aspects of your Microsoft 365 environment to highlight gaps where they might exist. These 130 aspects include examinations of:
Your governance policies and procedures
The security enabled throughout the environment
The administration and control over the environment
Usage of the environment for collaboration
Usage of tools to eliminate expired, redundant, or transitory data
Organizational change management practices to understand if people have the training they need to succeed in the tool.
As you may or may not be aware, Copilot (and other generative AI products) often has significant and wide-ranging access to the data stored in your Microsoft 365 environment. As a result, turning on copilot without first doing a health check may result in copilot obtaining data that it should not have access to.
A SharePoint health check is a great diagnostic if you use SharePoint and want to get better at using the tool in a more secure and fundamentally more compliant way. And as mentioned above, this health check is even more valuable to highlight gaps that may impact your usage of copilot if you are going down that road.
Cadence Solutions, as a provider of expert resource is who knows Microsoft 365 like the back of our hand, is ready to help perform this diagnostic for you and give you the Peace of Mind you deserve as you leverage Microsoft 365 to support your business.
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