Microsoft 365 and SharePoint engineering
Intranets, team spaces and collaboration estates on the platform you already pay for — the structure, the permissions and the search that Microsoft leaves to you.
What a usable Microsoft 365 estate needs
SharePoint information architecture
Site structure, hub relationships and navigation designed before content arrives, because reorganising a populated estate is considerably harder than planning an empty one.
Intranets and team spaces
A front door people actually use, with the provisioning and lifecycle rules that stop team spaces multiplying without an owner.
Microsoft 365 migrations
Content moved from file shares, older SharePoint versions or other platforms, in waves, with both systems readable during cutover.
Teams and collaboration setup
Clear guidance on what belongs in a chat, a channel, a document library and a record — which is the distinction most estates never make.
Power Platform automation
Approvals, requests and routine processes automated where it is proportionate, with governance so the estate does not fill with unowned flows.
Governance and lifecycle policies
Naming, provisioning, ownership review and archival defined as policy and enforced automatically rather than left to administrators.
Don’t see your challenge here? Talk to us about your project
The licence is the easy part; the structure is the work
Most organisations already pay for Microsoft 365 and already have SharePoint. What they do not have is an information architecture, a permission model or a search experience — the parts Microsoft deliberately leaves to the customer.
Getting those right turns an estate people avoid into one they use. Getting them wrong is how organisations end up buying a second system to solve a problem the first one was configured into.
- Architecture first
- Structure decided before content arrives.
- Provisioning rules
- New spaces created with an owner and a lifespan.
- Permission model
- Designed, not accumulated case by case.
- Search configured
- Relevance and refiners tuned for your content.
- Clear boundaries
- Chat, library and record distinguished explicitly.
- Governed automation
- Power Platform with ownership and review.
Collaboration systems for Technopolis Group
Technopolis Group's collaboration systems work is the everyday version of this: an organisation with the platform already in place and a need for it to be usable — structure, permissions and the conventions that decide whether people put their work in it or beside it.
Common questions
Should we build custom or configure SharePoint?
Configure, unless there is a specific requirement the platform genuinely cannot meet. We are candid about where that line is, because custom work on top of Microsoft 365 carries an upgrade cost that lasts as long as the system does.
Our SharePoint is already a mess. Where do you start?
With an inventory: what exists, what is used, who owns it. Almost every estate turns out to contain a large share of abandoned sites, and deciding what to retire is faster and cheaper than restructuring everything.
Can you help with governance rather than building?
Yes. Naming, provisioning, ownership review and archival policy — plus the automation to enforce them — is often the most valuable work, and it does not require a new system.
Let's talk about your information estate
Tell us what people cannot find today and which system nobody wants to own. We will come back with an honest read on whether the answer is search, governance or migration — and what a realistic first phase looks like.
