Practical writing on Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, for the people who run the firm and the people who run its IT.
Invoices approved by forwarded email work until someone is on holiday or the auditor asks who approved a payment. How to set up approvals on the Microsoft 365 a firm already has, and the limits to design around.
Read articleAn expired card fails the check at the gate, and a renewal window is not permission to work. How long the common cards last, what a renewal needs, how to check a card and how to see expiry coming.
Read articleEvery 6 months for equipment that lifts people and for accessories, 12 months for the rest, or as a scheme sets. What the report must say, how long to keep it, and what a register needs.
Read articlePUWER sets no fixed interval, but it does ask for inspections to be recorded and the record to travel with the equipment. The difference from a pre-use check, what HSE says to look at, and what to write down.
Read articleMost site diaries are written at the end of the week, from memory. It is the record everyone asks for when a variation, a delay or an accident is argued later. What it should record, and how to get it written the same day.
Read articleA key person leaves and three business critical apps become untouchable. Here is the environment strategy that prevents the most expensive failure in Power Platform.
Read articleSharePoint comes with Microsoft 365 and Dataverse needs a premium licence per user. For a firm of 30 to 150 people SharePoint is often the right start, if it is built with its limits in mind. Here is where the line sits.
Read articleHalf an hour on Teams, no charge. You describe the process that eats your week, and I tell you what I would build first and roughly what it would take.