Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint, designed by people who have read the permissions.

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What a SharePoint engagement covers

Six workstreams that turn SharePoint from a Wiki into a platform.

SharePoint succeeds or fails on information architecture and permission discipline. Our engagements design both before deploying any sites.

Information architecture

Hub-and-spoke site design, content-type taxonomy, navigation patterns, search-tuned metadata. Output: a site map your team can actually find content in.

Permission design

Least-privilege defaults, group-based access, sharing-policy enforcement, OverShare prevention. Permissions that scale beyond the first 50 users.

Document management

Version control, retention policies, approval workflows, sensitivity labels, automated classification. Documents discoverable and protected.

Intranet and comms

Communication sites, news, events, custom branding. SharePoint Online intranet platform tuned for engagement, not just publishing.

Search and findability

Managed metadata, custom search verticals, refiners, promoted results, search analytics. The platform that makes the content actually usable.

Migrations

File-share to SharePoint, OneDrive consolidation, Teams-SharePoint alignment, third-party platform migrations (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive). Zero data loss across cutovers.

Powerful SharePoint features

Three feature pillars across content, security, and connectivity.

SharePoint is more than a document library. We deploy each pillar with information-architecture discipline so the platform stays usable past the first 100 users.

Powerful Content Features

Document management, team collaboration, intranet portals, and Power Platform workflow automation. Configured with the metadata, content types, and templates that make search work.

  • Version control, check-in/out, co-authoring
  • Metadata, content types, and tagging schema
  • Team and communication sites
  • Approval, notification, and routing workflows
  • Custom intranet branding and personalised homepages

Enterprise-Grade Security

The full Microsoft 365 security stack applied to SharePoint: Entra ID, conditional access, IRM, DLP, sensitivity labels, retention policies, and granular permission models that hold up under audit.

  • Entra ID integration with conditional access
  • Information Rights Management (IRM)
  • Data loss prevention (DLP) policies
  • Sensitivity labels and retention policies
  • eDiscovery, legal hold, and audit logs
  • Role-based and item-level permissions

Seamlessly Connected

Native integration with the rest of Microsoft 365, plus Graph API and Logic Apps for the legacy systems your business cannot move off. Mobile experience built in.

  • Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Power Platform
  • Graph API and REST APIs for custom integrations
  • Azure Logic Apps for enterprise workflows
  • CRM / ERP and legacy-system connectors
  • Native iOS / Android apps with offline access
Why GR IT for SharePoint

Four reasons clients pick us for the deployment.

SharePoint deployments fail when no one designed the information architecture and no one disciplined the permissions. We do both before turning the lights on.

70+ SharePoint tenants

Pattern recognition matters. We have designed IA across legal, finance, healthcare, education. Common failure modes, common scaling traps.

IA-first deployments

Information architecture designed before any sites are built. Hub-spoke topology, navigation taxonomy, metadata schema. The discipline that determines whether the platform survives growth.

Permission discipline

Least-privilege defaults from day one. Group-based access, sharing policies, OverShare prevention. Permissions that hold up under audit and Copilot.

US-based engineers

Senior SharePoint engineers based in the United States. Same team that designs IA also runs migrations and provides ongoing administration.

Industries using SharePoint

SharePoint deployments by sector.

Six sectors where SharePoint provides material document and content uplift over file shares or third-party platforms.

Professional services

Law firms, accountancies, consultancies. Matter-based site collections, document templates, ethical-wall enforcement, partner-portal client collaboration.

Financial services

SEC- and NYDFS-regulated firms using SharePoint for regulated document management, audit-trail evidence, retention enforcement, regulator portals.

Healthcare

Hospitals, clinics, medical groups using SharePoint for clinical-policy documents, regulatory documentation, patient-portal back-end, secure forms processing.

Retail and operations

Retail and operations groups using SharePoint for store-ops procedures, supplier portals, executive dashboards, multi-store-content distribution.

Tech and SaaS

SaaS companies using SharePoint as their internal knowledge base, product documentation, customer-success libraries, governance-aware engineering wikis.

Education

Schools and universities using SharePoint for staff intranets, parent portals, faculty resources, student-facing knowledge bases.

For every business need

Solutions clients deploy on SharePoint, by purpose and by industry.

A list of the most common SharePoint solutions we deliver, paired with industry-specific scenarios. The information architecture differs per use case; the discipline is the same.
  • Knowledge management

    Centralised knowledge base with structured content, expertise discovery, and intelligent search across the organisation.

  • Project collaboration

    Dedicated project workspaces with document libraries, task lists, milestones, and stakeholder collaboration.

  • Records management

    Retention policies, legal holds, audit trails, eDiscovery support, and automated compliance reporting.

  • Employee onboarding

    Onboarding checklists, training materials, automated provisioning, welcome sites, and progress tracking.

  • Contract management

    Contract repository with approval workflows, expiration alerts, version control, and e-signature integration.

  • Departmental portals

    Custom portals for HR, Finance, IT and other departments with tailored forms, lists, and resource libraries.

  • Healthcare records

    Patient-record management, clinical-policy libraries, secure forms processing for HIPAA-aligned workflows.

  • Legal case management

    Matter-based site collections, document templates, ethical-wall enforcement, and partner-portal collaboration.

  • Retail store operations

    Centralised hub for store policies, training materials, supplier portals, and multi-location communications.

SharePoint vs file shares

Why most clients move off file shares.

Many clients arrive after years of growing file shares (\\fileserver\everything). The honest comparison:
Feature
On-prem file shares
NTFS-based
SharePoint Online
Cloud-native
Search across content
Limited (Windows Search)Native (full-text + metadata)
Version control
Basic VSS or noneBuilt-in major/minor versioning
Co-authoring
Mobile access
VPN onlyNative apps
External collaboration
Manual VPN/shareBuilt-in B2B
Retention and compliance
File-system level onlyPolicy-driven, label-aware
Maintenance overhead
On-prem server fleetMicrosoft-managed
Measurable business impact

What clients see after a properly architected SharePoint deployment.

Numbers from our client portfolio across financial services, legal, healthcare, and SaaS. They are averages, not best-cases, the variance below is real.
80%
Faster document retrieval

Metadata + tuned search vs file-share fumbling.

65%
Improved collaboration

Co-authoring and team sites replace email attachments.

50%
Reduced email volume

Centralised sharing displaces attachment-heavy threads.

90%
Document version accuracy

Single source of truth across teams.

75%
Faster approval cycles

Power Automate workflows over manual chasing.

100%
Compliance adherence

Retention and DLP enforced, not optional.

Implementation methodology

Your SharePoint journey, phase by phase.

Every SharePoint engagement runs the same five-phase plan. Each phase has a defined output, a sign-off gate, and a duration we commit to up front.
  1. 01
    Phase 1· 2-3 weeks

    Discovery and Planning

    Stakeholder interviews, current-state assessment, requirements gathering. We design the information architecture before anything else.

    • Stakeholder workshops and content audit
    • Information architecture design
    • Governance framework and naming conventions
    • Migration strategy with risk register
  2. 02
    Phase 2· 3-4 weeks

    Design and Configuration

    Sites, libraries, content types, metadata schema, and permission groups built per the design. Custom forms and workflows developed.

    • Site hierarchy and document libraries
    • Metadata and content-type configuration
    • Permission structure with group-based access
    • Custom forms, lists, and Power Automate flows
  3. 03
    Phase 3· 4-6 weeks

    Migration and Integration

    Content migrated in waves with ShareGate or Migration Manager. Microsoft 365 and third-party integrations stood up. Performance optimised.

    • Content migration in waves with delta capture
    • Microsoft 365 integrations (Teams, Outlook, OneDrive)
    • Third-party / legacy-system integrations
    • User provisioning, testing, and validation
  4. 04
    Phase 4· 2-3 weeks

    Training and Adoption

    End-user and admin training, documentation, change management, and adoption measurement. The platform only works if people use it.

    • End-user training sessions and quick-reference guides
    • Admin training and runbook documentation
    • Change-management plan and comms
    • Adoption baselines and KPI dashboard
  5. 05
    Phase 5· Ongoing

    Go-Live and Support

    Production cutover, ongoing user support, performance monitoring, usage analytics, and continuous improvement.

    • Production deployment with rollback plan
    • User support and incident response
    • Performance monitoring and usage analytics
    • Quarterly governance and feature reviews
How an engagement runs

From IA workshop to managed SharePoint operations.

Every SharePoint engagement runs the same path. Documented, evidenced, deliverable on a fixed timeline.
  1. 1

    Discovery

    2-3 weeks

    Workshops with stakeholders, content audit, current-platform assessment. Output: information-architecture design and migration plan.

  2. 2

    Design

    2-4 weeks

    Site topology, content types, metadata schema, permission groups, navigation, search configuration. Reviewed and signed off before build.

  3. 3

    Build and migrate

    3-8 weeks

    Sites deployed per the design, content migrated in waves, users onboarded by team. Search tuning happens after content is in place.

  4. 4

    Operate

    Continuous

    Ongoing administration, permission reviews, content governance, search analytics, monthly health reports, quarterly governance review.

We had 12 years of files on a single shared drive that nobody could navigate. GR IT spent four weeks designing the information architecture properly (matter-based site collections, document types, retention rules) before migrating a single file. The migration finished early, search actually works, and our team can find documents from 2017 they previously gave up on.
Frank Bennett
Senior Partner · Mid-market law firm, Downtown Houston
12 years of files migrated, search-discoverable
Common questions

Microsoft SharePoint, frequently asked.

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