# M365 Playbooks

> Short, sourced playbooks that help organizations get more value from Microsoft 365, from governance to deployment to maintenance. Optimize value, minimize risk, build for your end users.

Each playbook covers one situation and follows the same structure: Situation, At a glance (outcome, benefits and how to measure them, resources required, risk of not doing it), a stage-specific body (Governance, Deployment or Maintenance), Making it scale, Avoiding common pitfalls, Checkpoints, Related playbooks, Sources and Changelog. Every factual claim is sourced to Microsoft Learn. Links below go to clean Markdown copies; the HTML pages are at the same path without ".md".

## Operations

- [Decide if a Team is the right tool](https://m365playbooks.com/playbooks/decide-if-a-team-is-the-right-tool.md): A clear rule for when to create a Team, a communication site, a team site or a group chat, with naming, owners and guest access settled. (Govern, Microsoft Teams: Workspace track)
- [Set up a Team that works](https://m365playbooks.com/playbooks/set-up-a-team-that-works.md): A Team with channels that match how the group works, the right permissions, and members who know how to use it from day one. (Deploy, Microsoft Teams: Workspace track)
- [Keep a Team healthy](https://m365playbooks.com/playbooks/keep-a-team-healthy.md): A light review routine that keeps owners, members and channels current, and archives the Team when its work is done. (Maintain, Microsoft Teams: Workspace track)

## Security Management

- [Decide what counts as sensitive](https://m365playbooks.com/playbooks/decide-what-counts-as-sensitive.md): A short, owned list of sensitive data categories, the friction each one justifies, and a working exception process. (Govern, Data loss prevention: Organization track)
- [Roll out DLP without breaking work](https://m365playbooks.com/playbooks/roll-out-dlp-without-breaking-work.md): DLP policies enforced across all locations, introduced in waves, with users who understand the policy tips they see. (Deploy, Data loss prevention: Organization track)

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