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Your CRM says restricted. Your SharePoint says it’s open.

That's not an integration. That's a gap.

Someone on your compliance team finds a SharePoint permission that doesn't match anyone's current role.

Nobody knows how long it's been that way.

It's what happens when two platforms are connected to data, but never for security.

Dynamics 365 decides to access one way. SharePoint decides another. Neither one checks with the other.

Swipe to see exactly how to close this security gap →

When Microsoft 365 goes down, most teams are stuck waiting for a restore to finish before anyone can work again.

There's a faster way: keep a hot standby of your mailboxes, calendars, contacts, and documents continuously synced in Google Workspace. When Microsoft 365 fails, there's nothing to restore — you just redirect users and they keep working.

✅ Zero downtime, not "reduced" downtime
✅ Full mailbox + document sync, not partial backups
✅ Automatic failback once Microsoft 365 is stable — no data left behind
This is how enterprise IT teams are meeting NIS2, DORA, and CER resilience requirements without relying on a restore window.
See how the failover works https://www.connecting-software.com/microsoft-365-business-continuity/

In environments where Microsoft 365 supports core business functions, continuity planning needs to be more than a checkbox exercise.
Email and file access are too important to leave to assumptions, especially when uptime and responsiveness directly affect productivity.

A resilient setup helps ensure that teams can keep working, even when the unexpected happens.

Looking at ways to make Microsoft 365 continuity part of your IT strategy? Link in the comments 👇

We’re pleased to share that Connecting Software is officially an approved G-Cloud 15 supplier, offering its integration, security and compliance solutions under Lot 2b.

For us, this is more than a procurement milestone - it’s a way to make it easier for public-sector teams to access software through a framework they already trust. G-Cloud exists to simplify how UK public-sector organizations buy cloud services, giving them a familiar route to evaluate suppliers and move forward with confidence.

In a market where trust, clarity, and procurement efficiency matter, being listed on G-Cloud 15 helps remove friction from the buying process while keeping the focus on the quality of the service itself.

This achievement is a natural extension of work already underway across more than 40 active public sector deployments and over 20 national departments worldwide, reinforcing our ongoing commitment to secure, trusted solutions that help teams work with confidence.

Last night’s Microsoft outage affected thousands of users, leaving companies paralyzed and critical public services unavailable; such disruptions can even put lives at risk.
When Microsoft 365 goes down, organizations lose access to the email, documents, calendars, and contacts they rely on to operate.
There’s a faster way to recover: keep a hot standby continuously synchronized in Google Workspace. If Microsoft 365 fails, users are automatically redirected to Google Workspace and can keep working, without waiting for a restore.
✅ Zero downtime, not just reduced downtime
✅ Full mailbox and document synchronization, not partial backups
✅ Automatic failover to Google Workspace, followed by synchronized recovery back to Microsoft 365 once the service is stable, no data left behind
This is how enterprise IT teams can meet NIS2, DORA, and CER resilience requirements without relying on a restore window.
Read more about this outage and possible solutions → https://www.connecting-software.com/blog/august-31-microsoft-outage-the-single-vendor-risk/

One of the biggest misconceptions we hear is:

"We'll build a custom solution later."

The problem is that security doesn't pause while development happens.

Between planning, coding, testing, revisions, and deployment, organizations can spend months waiting for a solution, while document access remains inconsistent across Dynamics 365 and SharePoint.

And in many cases, the real challenge isn't building the solution. It's maintaining it as users, roles, teams, and business structures evolve.

If your goal is to keep SharePoint access aligned with Dynamics 365 security, the question isn't just "Can we build it?"

It's "How long can you afford to wait while the risk remains?"

Most Dynamics 365 and SharePoint projects start with a simple goal:

"Let's make documents easier to manage."

And native integration does exactly that.

But as organizations grow, we often see the conversation shift from document management to something much bigger:

👉 Access management

👉 Governance

👉 Compliance

👉 Operational overhead

What works for 20 users doesn't always work for 200 or 2,000.

- New hires join.
- Teams change.
- Roles evolve.
- Document volumes explode.

Suddenly, maintaining consistent access across systems becomes a challenge that consumes far more time and effort than anyone expected.

That's why leading organizations don't just think about integration.

They think about how that integration will scale.

In this carousel, we're exploring 6 hidden challenges that often emerge as Dynamics 365 and SharePoint environments grow.

Have you experienced any of them in your organization?

Cloud outages aren't rare anymore. The real question is: how fast can you recover?

While teams work in a secondary environment, emails are sent, files are edited, and contacts are updated. When it’s time to return to the primary environment, those changes can create conflicts, permission mismatches, duplicate data, and even data loss.

Some organizations manage this by setting a firm cutover date and reconciling every change manually. It works, but it’s slow, costly, and prone to error.

In this piece, we argue that the alternative is to design for bi-directional synchronization from the start. That way, failback isn’t a separate project - it’s simply synchronization continuing to do its job.


5 min read: https://resilienceforward.com/why-do-business-continuity-plans-fall-down-at-failback/

Every attachment in Dynamics 365 is quietly doing three things at once:

- Costing more than it should
- Sitting outside the permissions that were supposed to protect it
- And adding one more thing, IT must explain at budget review.

CB Dynamics 365 Seamless Attachment Extractor fixes all three without anyone noticing a change. Attachments move to SharePoint automatically, permissions intact, workflows untouched, storage costs cut immediately.

Same attachments. Same access. A problem nobody must bring up again.

See how this could work for you.
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