Question 1

How fast can you respond to a SharePoint production outage?

Accepted Answer

Support-plan customers get a 15-minute acknowledgement on severity-1 outages through the on-call rotation, with an engineer actively troubleshooting inside 60 minutes twenty-four hours a day. Severity-1 is reserved for tenant-wide inaccessibility, authentication failure, data loss, or search index corruption affecting production business processes. Severity-2 (feature broken for a specific department) is acknowledged inside one business hour. For ad-hoc emergency engagements without an existing contract, an engineer can typically be on a bridge within two hours during US business hours after the engagement agreement is signed. Every incident produces a written root-cause analysis within five business days, including the Microsoft 365 Service Health correlation ID where applicable, change-management entries reviewed, and a hardening recommendation so the same issue does not recur.

Question 2

What does a tenant-to-tenant SharePoint migration look like?

Accepted Answer

Tenant-to-tenant migrations run in four phases. Discovery inventories every site collection, OneDrive, Teams, Planner plan, group calendar, and permission assignment, and maps source-to-target identities. Pre-migration remediation fixes unsupported items — external sharing links, orphaned permissions, oversize files, legacy InfoPath forms, and classic workflows — before the first byte moves. Migration executes in waves grouped by business unit, using a combination of ShareGate, Quest On Demand, or native Microsoft cross-tenant tooling depending on scope, content types, and identity model. Cutover runs on a weekend window with delta-sync passes on Friday evening and Sunday morning. Post-migration includes URL mapping for internal links, email communication to end users, guest-access re-invites, and a 30-day hypercare period where an engineer triages every reported issue inside the same day.

Question 3

How is a SharePoint consulting engagement priced?

Accepted Answer

Three models fit most organizations. Fixed-fee project pricing works for scoped deliverables — a migration, an intranet rebuild, a branding refresh, or a governance rollout — where requirements can be documented up front. Time-and-materials applies to exploratory work and long-tail enhancements where the backlog changes monthly. Retainer support (priced in hours-per-month tiers from 20 to 200 hours) covers ongoing administration, ticket handling, minor customizations, user training, and emergency response with a guaranteed SLA. Migration scope is typically priced per seat or per gigabyte depending on complexity. Every proposal itemizes what is and is not included, so procurement teams can baseline the quote against competing bids. Microsoft 365 license costs are quoted separately and are not marked up.

Question 4

Do you support SharePoint Framework (SPFx) custom development?

Accepted Answer

Yes. SPFx work includes web parts, extensions, field customizers, application customizers, and adaptive card extensions targeting the modern Viva Connections surface. Build pipelines run on Node LTS aligned to the current SPFx generator, with solution packaging, CDN hosting on SharePoint Online or Azure Front Door, and automated deployment through the App Catalog. Every solution ships with accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1 AA), localization hooks, and logging to Application Insights so production issues are traceable. Legacy full-trust or sandbox solutions are refactored onto SPFx using a documented migration pattern rather than a rewrite-from-scratch assumption. Where modern features cannot fully replace a legacy customization, the delta is surfaced early in discovery so stakeholders can decide between a Power Platform alternative, a Graph API solution, or a redesigned business process.

Question 5

How do you design SharePoint information architecture at scale?

Accepted Answer

Modern SharePoint is a flat architecture built from hub sites, not nested site collections. Design starts with a persona-driven inventory of content audiences and the tasks they perform, not an org-chart mirror. Hub sites group content by business capability (HR, Finance, Project Delivery, Customer) with a consistent navigation pattern, shared theme, and associated audience targeting. Managed metadata and site columns enforce tagging where taxonomy matters — retention, records, regulated content — while labels in Microsoft Purview drive compliance automation. Search is tuned with promoted results, refiners, and result sources so users find content in fewer clicks. Every site template is published as a site design with a PnP provisioning template, so new sites inherit branding, security, and structure automatically rather than drifting from the standard within three months.

Question 6

How do you secure SharePoint and enforce Microsoft 365 governance?

Accepted Answer

Governance is written, published, and enforced by tenant policy — not by tribal knowledge. External sharing is restricted at the tenant and per-site level, with sensitivity labels controlling which sites accept guest access and which block it. Conditional access policies require compliant devices for privileged roles, and risky sign-ins trigger step-up authentication. Microsoft Purview delivers DLP for content in motion, retention labels for records management, and Communication Compliance for regulated industries. SharePoint Advanced Management surfaces oversharing reports, inactive site detection, and restricted-access control for high-value sites. Every tenant gets a written governance charter covering provisioning workflow, naming standards, site lifecycle, backup and restore responsibilities, and the audit cadence. Quarterly governance reviews track policy drift and adjust controls against emerging Microsoft 365 features.

Question 7

What are the options for migrating from SharePoint on-premises?

Accepted Answer

SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 all move to SharePoint Online, but the migration path depends on starting version, customization footprint, and data volume. Native Microsoft migration tools cover the majority of document libraries, lists, and permissions. SharePoint Migration Tool handles straightforward farms; the Migration Manager agent model suits large distributed environments. Third-party platforms (ShareGate, Quest, AvePoint) are preferred for complex permission remapping, nested content types, or large metadata hierarchies. InfoPath forms, classic workflows, and full-trust code are evaluated case by case and converted to Power Apps, Power Automate, or SPFx. 2013 workflow is retired from Microsoft 365, so migration plans explicitly schedule workflow replacement. Content older than a retention threshold is archived to Microsoft 365 Archive or Azure Storage rather than moved, reducing target footprint by 20–40 percent on average.

Question 8

Can you integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot with SharePoint content?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with governance preceding enablement. Copilot surfaces any content a user can already access through SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, so permission hygiene and sensitivity labeling have to be completed before enablement — not afterwards. Integration work covers three tracks. First, SharePoint cleanup: oversharing detection, broken-inheritance remediation, restricted SharePoint search for sites still in flight. Second, content enrichment: sensitivity labels applied at scale, retention policies aligned to record classes, and managed metadata reintroduced for high-value libraries so Copilot has better retrieval signals. Third, operational control: DSPM for AI in Microsoft Purview, Copilot audit log review, and ongoing monitoring of AI-generated activity. Each track produces a before-and-after evidence pack so executive sponsors can see that enablement was controlled, not opportunistic.

Question 9

What qualifications and experience do your consultants have?

Accepted Answer

Engineers assigned to client engagements hold current Microsoft 365 certifications (Modern Desktop Administrator, Teams Administrator, Identity and Access Administrator, Security Administrator) plus SharePoint-specific depth — multiple people on the bench have supported SharePoint since the 2007 product cycle. The team includes former Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, community conference speakers, and active contributors to the PnP community initiative. Every consultant rotates through a quarterly internal lab to rehearse outage scenarios, new Microsoft 365 feature rollouts, and hands-on migration drills. Staffing decisions match the engagement profile: compliance-regulated clients are staffed with engineers who have delivered in that exact vertical before, not generalists. Every project has a named technical lead and a named delivery lead so escalation paths are obvious from day one.

Question 10

Is the support service offered in multiple languages or time zones?

Accepted Answer

Support coverage spans US Eastern, US Pacific, UK, and Asia-Pacific time zones through a follow-the-sun rotation for retainer clients on the 24/7 tier. Primary support language is English, with working proficiency in Spanish and French available on a best-effort basis. For clients with strict language requirements, a named engineer can be matched for the duration of the engagement. Ticket submission is available through email, a web portal, and a Teams-integrated bot; severity-1 issues additionally escalate to an on-call phone bridge. All tickets are tracked in a shared ITSM platform with visibility for the client, and monthly service reviews report on SLA attainment, ticket volume trends, and any patterns that justify a proactive hardening project rather than repeated break/fix work.

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