4 topics · 16 playbooks · every fact sourced

Optimize value, minimize risk, build for your end users.

Each playbook is a high-level plan you can take into a kickoff: why it matters, what to decide, what to configure, how to pilot and scale, and how you'll know it worked. Every fact is checked against Microsoft sources.

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  • Program · Purview

    Data loss prevention

    Decide what counts as sensitive, roll out DLP without breaking work, and keep it accurate enough to be worth the alerts.

    • Plan
    • Deploy
    • Maintain
    • Refine
  • Program · Teams · SharePoint

    Microsoft Teams workspaces

    Decide when a Team is the right tool, set one up that works, and keep it healthy without sprawl.

    • Plan
    • Deploy
    • Maintain
  • Feature deployment · SharePoint · OneDrive

    SharePoint version history limits

    Switch on automatic (intelligent) version history limits so storage stops growing with old versions, while people keep the versions they actually restore.

    • Deploy

Every topic follows the same lifecycle

  1. 1. Plan

    What do we decide, who owns it, and are we ready?

  2. 2. Deploy

    How do we pilot it and scale it without disruption?

  3. 3. Maintain

    How do we keep it working as built?

  4. 4. Refine

    How do we tune it and take it further?

Written by a practitioner

Sev Derghazarian

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