Microsoft SharePoint Managed Services
Secure and productive file collaboration for your organization
What is Microsoft SharePoint?
SharePoint is Microsoft 365’s file management and collaboration cloud platform. It is browser-based and protected by multiple security protocols, meaning your workforce can securely store, organize, access, and share documents using any device. Microsoft 365 ecosystem applications like Office and Teams are tightly integrated with SharePoint.
IT Authorities is a Microsoft Gold Partner with comprehensive experience configuring SharePoint for our clients’ Microsoft 365 environments.
Why SharePoint
Collaboration
SharePoint’s file organization and accessibility make Microsoft 365 a powerful collaboration environment where people can work together in real time from any location on any type of file.
Security and governance
SharePoint simplifies your security and compliance obligations with features that protect your data and authorize users, like AES 256-bit encryption for every file update, redundant backups, and advanced permissions.
Ease of use
SharePoint works with the Android and iOS operating systems and common web browsers like Edge, Explorer, Chrome, and Safari, ensuring your workforce can be productive from any location.
Integrations within Microsoft’s productivity cloud
SharePoint seamlessly links to Office business-suite applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and OneDrive.
Why choose SharePoint by IT Authorities?
- Expertise on demand – We provide 24/7 Microsoft Premium Support for free. Our Azure team becomes your single point of contact for all Azure related questions and training.
- Guidance – We’ll assess the state of your current infrastructure or existing Azure environment and configure it to meet your security, compliance, and scalability requirements.
- End-to-end management – Our certified engineers deploy and manage Azure resources such as Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Backup, along with other compute, storage, virtual networking, and security solutions in Azure.
- ROI maximization – We’ll optimize your Azure architecture and infrastructure for your workloads, and manage IT operations such as automation, workflow deployment, and governance.
- Microsoft Gold Partnership – You gain access to partner-only benefits, Microsoft Premium Support, and Microsoft Technical Account Managers.
Our other Microsoft services
Azure
Microsoft’s public cloud platform offers computing, storage, networking, development, and analytics.
SharePoint
Microsoft’s website-based cloud file management platform provides secure storage and access, and facilitates remote collaboration.
Teams
Microsoft's powerful communication and collaboration tool combines chat, video meetings, file sharing, and Microsoft 365 integration.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft’s mobile device management tool sets access permissions for laptops, tablets, and smartphones, and integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications like Teams.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
This security platform uses advanced threat intelligence and behavioral sensors to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks on enterprise networks.
Additional Resources
FAQs
SharePoint was the original name of the platform when it was launched with Microsoft Office in 2001. SharePoint On-Premises now refers to this non-cloud version used with local servers. SharePoint Online is Microsoft’s official name for the cloud version used by Microsoft 365. Within the context of a Microsoft 365 environment (which is cloud-based), SharePoint Online is usually referred to as simply SharePoint.
SharePoint Online is included with Microsoft 365 enterprise and small business plans. For organizations moving to the cloud, Microsoft provides the free SharePoint Migration Tool. Once your system requirements have been determined, the tool can transfer your file and document libraries from local drives to Microsoft’s SharePoint cloud servers.
Microsoft provides a 99.9% SLA for the availability of your cloud network, applications, and data. Compared to an on-premises solution, you would need redundant servers on-site and off-site to achieve that level of availability. Microsoft’s infrastructure is world-class in terms of both stability and security, ensuring your users have consistent access to their email and other services.
Yes. Starting our partnership off right is critical, and to ensure a proper onboarding there is a fee associated. The fee is equal to one month of service and covers the development of knowledge base articles and process documents.
No. Doing business with a partner should be easy and built on trust. Our monthly service agreements are just that — monthly, with no long-term commitments. There are no contracts or cancellation fees.
Absolutely! A Customer Success Executive will be assigned to you as your single point of contact. For technical support, you will have our entire team working to address any issue that comes up.
The onboarding process typically takes two weeks. You are assigned a Project Manager and Customer Success Executive to ensure a smooth and collaborative transition.
We consider this to be fundamental. Our Microsoft Gold Partner certified engineers work closely with Microsoft and you to ensure your technology is up to date and aligned to your business objectives.