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An introduction to starting your organisation’s OKRs
The Viva Explorers wanted to understand what success looked like for us and we also knew that OKRs were a great way to do this. Rather than just do it ourselves, we thought we would film the process and share with everyone. Stale Hensen and myself sat down, talked a bit about the OKR framework and then worked out how that would fit the Viva Explorers. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7037713349920333824?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7037713349920333824%29
Apr 16, 2023 Place Starting an OKR Program
OKRs
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What are your Goals?
As an OKR Champion, you should hopefully be following the great advice that you are offering to others and not just pushing what you don’t follow yourself. So, given that, what are your own OKRs that can inspire others and how are you tracking them?
Apr 06, 2023 Place Being a Great OKR Champion
OKR Champion
OKRs
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OKRs vs KPIs
Many organisations have set up existing KPIs that help them to track the state of key measures across their organisation, with these either being transparent to all or shared at regular townhalls. The temptation would be to use these in their entirety within Viva Goals to power the key results of your OKRs but that would be a mistake. One of the super powers of OKRs is to have Focus and to share that Focus from the strategy of the organisation at the top down to each level. Empowering each layer in an organisation to define their own metrics for success for the top level objective brings a more personal goal that is aligned to what the organisation is striving to achieve. You can read more about my thoughts on this in a recent article I shared through Reworked -Why You Need Both OKRs and KPIs (reworked.co). What have you done in your organisation
Apr 05, 2023 Place Measuring and Tracking OKRs
Key Results
kpi
OKRs
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TeamsAdding OneNote Tab using Microsoft Graph doesn't start
I have a Teams Template that should be adding a OneNote tab to a channel. However, in our production environment, it doesn't. All the other elements get created just not the OneNote. If I take a look at the Operations in Graph, the status is showing as Not Started for the tabs. Is there anyway to force it? Or do you just have to manually configure the Tabs? Any hints much appreciated
Nov 12, 2020 Place Teams Developer
developer
microsoft teams
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Intermittent 403 issue with Group provisioned Team Sites using New-PNPUnifiedGroup
I am seeing intermittent issues when using New-PNPUnifiedGroup to create a new group and SharePoint team site where the site itself only returns a 403 forbidden. Thanks to the post fromAdam Wildash(https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Developer/403-for-modern-site-using-MS-code-snippet-for-provisioning/m-p/123013#M3712) I found that the LockState was set to NoAccess and setting it to Unlock works. However, this isn't something that I want to do without finding out why it's doing that. Has anyone seen similar issues? Connect-PnPMicrosoftGraph -Scopes "Group.ReadWrite.All","User.Read.All" [string[]]$owners = "ADMINUSEREMAILREMOVED" $newGroup = New-PnPUnifiedGroup -DisplayName $ProjectDisplayName -MailNickname $ProjectName -Description $ProjectDisplayName -Owners $owners -Members $owners -IsPrivate $groupUrl = $tenantSitesUrl + $ProjectName Write-Output "ApplyTemplate1 - Connecting to site $groupUrl" Connect-PnPOnline -Url $groupUrl -Credentials $mycreds Write-Output "ApplyTemplate1 - Get tenant site details" $Site=Get-PnPTenantSite -url $groupUrl -Detailed if ($Site.Status -eq "Creating") { Write-Output "ApplyTemplateERROR - Site still being created" } else { Write-Output "ApplyTemplate2 - Re-connect" Connect-PnPOnline -Url $groupUrl -Credentials $mycreds Write-Output "ApplyTemplate3 - Enable scripting on site for template to apply correctly" Set-PnPTenantSite -Url $groupUrl -NoScriptSite:$false Write-Output "ApplyTemplate3 - Apply template" Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path "ProjectSiteTemplate.xml" Write-Output "ApplyTemplate4 - Completed" } Write-Output "ApplyTemplate-6 - Apply project site template" Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path $template Write-Output "ApplyTemplate-7 - Applied template"
Nov 30, 2017 Place SharePoint Developer
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Custom tile for new App Launcher
Is there a known issue with using the new app launcher and existing custom tiles? The new version appeared for me yesterday but the custom tile I had is no longer appearing. I seem to remember someone mentioning issues before but can't find the details now.
Nov 16, 2017 Place Microsoft 365
office 365
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Can you view what a user has shared externally in SharePoint Online?
Is it possible to see what has been externally shared either for a specific user or for everything? I know you could write a Powershell to iterate through all permissions but is there a simpler way, perhaps with audit? Or is it only third party products like Sharegate?
Sep 26, 2017 Place SharePoint
Usage
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Automating creating of groups with a site pnp template
I'm finding it very frustrating how long it takes for the status of a Team Site created with New-PNPUnifiedGroup to change out of being "Creating".Initially couldn't understand why I couldn't call Apply-PnpProvisioningTemplate on a new site but then found the post below: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Developer/How-do-I-set-DenyAddAndCustomizePages-using-PnP/td-p/32372 Thanks toManidurai Mohanamariappan's comment, I was able to see that the new site is still in "Creating" status even though I can access the site through the UI. I saw another post about setting the lock state but that seems a bit risky on create. Does anyone know what it is doing and if it can be sped up at all?
Sep 01, 2017 Place SharePoint Developer
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Do you know where your Feedback is going?
I have just blogged about this but I have a concern over the Feedback button in SharePoint Online. I've heard of users posting on this with feedback on the site but it's about the site specifically rather than on SharePoint itself. Is there a way to change where this feedback is sent? Whilethis is partly about getting useful feedback, my major concern is that users may post sensitive information to the user voice site thinking that it is only sent internally to an organisation. There are already some cases in user voice with people referencing their own site (search for feedback and you see some of these pretty quickly). I have raised a user voice suggestion on this for any others who would like to chime in directly -https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/20072722-send-feedback-to-site-admins-first.
Jul 13, 2017 Place SharePoint
Permissions
SharePoint Online
Usage
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Is deploying add-ins to a developer site supported with SPFX?
I am working ona SharePoint Framework webpart and packaging up as an add-in. Can I deploy this to a developer site collection in any way or only to the app catalog? Was hoping that I could deploy to a developer site for integration testing before putting in the app catalog but it was failing when I tried it.
Mar 10, 2017 Place SharePoint Developer
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