Microsoft 365

Extending SharePoint Using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and Custom Development 

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While SharePoint’s modern experience provides impressive functionality updates and improvements, there are still several reasons why clients may want to further extend those features or add new features that will better facilitate their organizational needs. This can be as simple as adding a new web part displaying calendar events differently to more complex full custom solutions that integrate multiple 3rd party systems to push and pull data in and out of SharePoint.  We can perform these tasks using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to customize existing features or build new features of our own. This framework allows us to keep it simple using only JavaScript or provides the option to combine … Read more

Enhanced Site Structure and Document Libraries Improve Team Productivity 

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One of the largest trailer leasing and rental companies in the United States needed assistance building an intranet hub site and department sites for their organization with the goal of enhancing team productivity. While they already had a couple of SharePoint sites built, they weren’t being used and needed direction and guidance to make the most of their products. Phase two of the project involved assisting with the setup of document libraries for specific departments and two different department sites (Marketing and HR) within the hub site (where their internal team had already started to build out other sites and document libraries).  The Imaginet Business Productivity team configured the Marketing … Read more

Converting Angular to Blazor: What is Blazor, and Should You Make the Switch? 

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Blazor is a somewhat new web framework used to create interactive web applications with ASP.NET and build web UIs using C# as the primary technology. The option to use JavaScript remains, but the primary language is C#. It’s recently had a bit of buzz in the tech world and people are interested in what it can do. The purpose of this blog is to highlight some of the benefits and why you might want to consider converting from Angular to Blazor.  Benefits of Blazor:  Drawbacks to Converting to Blazor:  Because Blazor is relatively new there are going to be some drawbacks. It’s important to consider these limitations to choose the … Read more

Teams Implementation Empowers Individual Organizational Teams to Collaborate Seamlessly 

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A well-established global charitable organization contacted Imaginet to assist in implementing Microsoft Teams across the organization, as well as creating separate teams for each department. The goal was to have an accessible space for team members to collaborate.   The organization expressed their desire to do the work themselves but wanted Imaginet to oversee their work to ensure they were implementing everything correctly and efficiently. The first step was to understand the client’s requirements for their Team site. We then produced a document outlining how to set up policies and create individual teams.   Our next step was providing training for each department. Imaginet created additional documents for training purposes and performed … Read more

Are You Cyber Safe? Protect Your Microsoft 365 Products from Online Threats – Part 2

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Last week, we published a blog that provided tips for protecting your Microsoft 365 products against malicious cyber threats. Cybersecurity is not something to take lightly, and with technology constantly evolving, it is important to understand how you can protect your organization’s sensitive information.   There is no such thing as being overly cautious or engaging in too much cyber security. We recommend doing everything you can to protect your organization’s online information. Online threats are lurking everywhere, and far too many people adopt an “it will never happen to me” mentality. The reality is it can happen, and it does, so it is always best to diversify your safety … Read more

Site Configuration and Training Helps Organization Capitalize on Existing SharePoint Products  

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One of the largest trailer leasing and rental companies in the United States needed assistance building an intranet hub site and department sites for their organization. While they already had a couple of SharePoint sites built, they weren’t being used to their full potential. The client needed direction and guidance to make the most of their products and to get employees and leadership excited to use the sites. Phase one of the project involved assisting with the setup of the client’s hub site and two different department sites as a pilot – IT and Finance. Both departments required separate document libraries for their sub-departments, with custom permissions.  The Imaginet Business … Read more

Microsoft Power Automate Workflows Increase Efficiency for User Creation, Onboarding, and Approvals

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An innovative biopharmaceutical organization that Imaginet had previously helped with a SharePoint Online build wanted to automate workflows that were causing a lot of back-and-forth communication and delays in their approval process. Without the necessary knowledge or time to complete the build, the client contacted Imaginet to support the project.   Using Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate, we created a workflow to assist with onboarding new hires and adding external user accounts to their Azure Active Directory environment. Microsoft PowerShell synchronizes the data between the SharePoint Online site and their local Azure Active Directory instance to allow communication between the different systems.  Once a record is created in SharePoint, either … Read more