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Rob Giesen
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Dec 17, 2018
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Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit

Hi There,

 

In the latest 0365 blog the new Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit is mentioned, in the blog I can read what all the benefits are from this tool and what it concludes. I am missing 1 thing tough, is this a feature I can set in my admin center? (if so I cant find it or enable it) after that how does it work, do I get 1 button (per example) to get all the 4 pillars included in the blog?

 

Or is it just a way how to set up your freelance projects and Its just a best practise and I have to manually setup the site, BI and flows?

 

Anyone got some experience with this?

 

Regards, Rob

  • ChrisHoardMVP's avatar
    ChrisHoardMVP
    Dec 17, 2018
    Agree with Juan, it is a set of best practices and deployment guides using the apps - SharePoint, Teams, Power BI and Flow to manage freelance projects in the organisation at scale. They are doing it in Partnership with Upwork.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/

    Resources
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/freelancetoolkit/solutionresources

    To note, you can get all of these in Office 365 E5 or add a PowerBI Pro licence to and existing Office 365/Microsoft 365 Business or Enterprise SKU.

    The Toolkit is not an application or SKU in itself.

    Hope that helps clarify.

    Best, Chris

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  • AFAIK, while it's true Microsoft calls it "Microsoft Freelance Toolki", it's not a real toolkit in the end...basically, employers have to provide to freelances everything they need to work in a productive way (access to Teams, Power BI, etc)
    • ChrisHoardMVP's avatar
      ChrisHoardMVP
      MVP
      Agree with Juan, it is a set of best practices and deployment guides using the apps - SharePoint, Teams, Power BI and Flow to manage freelance projects in the organisation at scale. They are doing it in Partnership with Upwork.

      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/

      Resources
      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/freelancetoolkit/solutionresources

      To note, you can get all of these in Office 365 E5 or add a PowerBI Pro licence to and existing Office 365/Microsoft 365 Business or Enterprise SKU.

      The Toolkit is not an application or SKU in itself.

      Hope that helps clarify.

      Best, Chris

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