We are thrilled to share with you that Powell Teams is now Powell Governance, marking our expanded focus on Microsoft 365!
Expect documentation to be reflect this change in the coming days. For more information, please have a look at this article.
Introduction
Teams and SharePoint sites need updating over time - changes in settings and metadata. With Powell Governance, the workspace edition becomes very easy. To manage your workspaces easily and effectively, we provide a team and SharePoint edition page and tab which accessible from everywhere. You can constantly ensure that your workspaces are up to date and follow the right guidelines and governance rules.
To edit the workspace, you need to be a Powell Governance administrator or a workspace owner. If you are a standard user, you can access the workspace information you are a member of (not owner), but you will not be able to make any modifications to the workspace.
You can edit your workspaces from several entries:
1. The user dashboard
Workspace owners can directly edit their workspaces from the user dashboard. To act, click the three dots icon for each workspace. Then, hit the button "edit team" or "edit site". It will directly open the workspace information page - with all the information regarding the workspace. You can make modifications directly on the page.
For more details, visit the Welcome Page.
2. The administration Center
In the administration center, a workspace edition is possible each time a workspace is displayed. In the "Understand" section - on the page "Workspaces" and the "Reports" page.
3. From a tab in a teams channel in Microsoft teams
The Powell Governance edition tab can be also accessed in Microsoft Teams as a tab in a team channel. This is only available for teams for now. The team information tab is a new tab that will be automatically created in the general channel in the team for newly created teams based on a Powell Governance template. You just need to add the tab through a "+" button. Team owners can directly make changes to the team information within the tab. Standard users will have read-only access.
For more details, visit the page team information tab.
4. From a link sent by a Powell Governance admin
Additionally, you can now edit workspaces directly from a link. This link will redirect you to the edition page on your browser.
To configure the link, you will need the TeamID. You can get it by clicking on the three dots next to the team in Microsoft Teams and selecting "Get link to team".
You will find the TeamID after "groupId=" and before "&tenantId=". For example, in the following link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3A6PGnyQApVn_Vknh6PeW46owsyfO34LwxkLSO21M5c4k1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=fc02c373-91ba-4f99-aaee-055544eb3f90&tenantId=da579fe4-9d66-42eb-b128-6504e8ef282c
The TeamID is : fc02c373-91ba-4f99-aaee-055544eb3f90.
- To configure the link for a user, use this format:
https://governance.powell-software.com/home/index?redirUrlAfterLogin=/Home/%23/team/[teamid]
- To configure the link for an admin, use this format:
https://governance.powell-software.com/home/index?redirUrlAfterLogin=/Home/AdminIndex%23/team/[teamid]
Workspace edition
The team edition panel is the same everywhere. Here you can find an overview of what is happening in your workspace.
1. General information: Team name, workspace description, privacy settings, sensitivity label and expiration date
2. Tags: The tags associated with the team
3. Template Configuration: all the template governance rules are detailed and explained to the team owners
4. The team overview of key metrics
5. Useful links
6. Team membership - a list of team owners and team members
6. Team history - the team creation date and last edition date made within Powell Governance
Editable team settings and information:
- Change the team image
- Change the team name and description
- Choose the team's privacy
- Choose the sensitivity label
- Change the tag values from the dropdown list. You can choose different values for each tag from the dropdown list
- Archive the team
- Review owners and members
- Reappply the site design on the SharePoint site of the team
- Change the template for the team in the template configuration section
To archive a team, just click the archive button button.
For more information about the "archive" feature and archived teams, visit the page archived teams.
Do not forget to save your modifications.
Edit a SharePoint site
The SharePoint site edition panel is the same everywhere. Here you can find an overview of what is happening on your site. You can access a site's
1. General information: Site name, site description, site type, site URL, external sharing, storage limit
2. Tags: The tags associated with the workspace
3. Template configuration: all the template governance rules are detailed and explained to the workspace owners
4. The site overview of key metrics
5. Site membership - a list of site owners, members and visitors
6. Useful link - to the SharePoint site home page
7. Site history - the SharePoint site creation date and last edition date made within Powell Governance
Editable site settings and information:
- Change the team name and description
- Edit the site URL
- Change the external sharing configuration (only people in your organization, new and existing guests, anyone, existing guests)
- Archive the site
- Review owners, members, and visitors
- Change the template for the site in the template configuration section
To archive a team, just click the archive button button.
For more information about the "archive" feature and archived teams, visit the page archived teams.
Do not forget to save your modifications.
Change the template on an existing workspace
When you edit your teams or SharePoint site, you can apply a new template to your workspace. What happens in this case?
When you apply a new template to your workspace, Powell Governance will take the governance rules and settings existing in this chosen template and apply them to your workspace.
You might ask, what would happen to all your existing information in your workspace - channels, links, members owners, etc.
The good news is:
When you apply a Powell Governance template on an existing workspace, the existing content like users, channels, tabs, and documents will not be deleted. We only add the governance rules and missing content available in the Powell Governance template.
So how does it work?
1. In the section "template selection," select your template.
The team will import the settings from this new template.
2. Next, you can review the new template settings in the general information section.
These settings include:
For teams:
- Missing channels
- Missing tabs
- Missing applications
- Additional configurations
- Minimum number of owners and members
- Template lock
- External user rule
- Members and owners
For SharePoint sites:
- Minimum number of owners and members
- Template lock
- External sharing rule
- Members and owners
The page will display imported channels and imported owners, members, or visitors.
A summary of the modification is displayed before you apply the template to the workspace.
3. In the third step, In the "tags and team name" section, you can choose the tag values and modify the team name according to the naming convention rules existing for this template.
This is only available for teams for now.
Keep in mind that when you change the tag values, your team name might change as well, since some of the tags can be included in the naming convention.
Read more about the naming conventions here.
Find more information about tags here.
You can find detailed information on template settings and configurations here.