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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This post is related to a larger group of posts called  Migrate SharePoint to Office 365 - Planning & Steps ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've gone with a Publishing Site Collection so that I can use the 'Alternate CSS URL' in Site Settings > Master Page. First off, thanks to the following websites which helped get me started: http://blog.sharepointexperience.com/2015/02/sptechcon-austin-february-2015/#more-2766 http://blog.sharepointexperience.com/2015/01/to-brand-or-not-to-brand/ Here's what the end result will look like (if you have the same fonts): Now for the CSS... /* Design By : Brett Randall */ /*     Design Colours: Greens/Greys/Blues */ /*     Last Modified : 28/02/2017 */ /*     Description: CSS to rebrand SharePoint Online Publishing Site Collection that is...

What Nintex Workflow has an action to create a site automatically in SharePoint, but it's functionality is quite limited.  You can't create groups and you can't add staff to those groups.  This tutorial shows you how to create a Nintex workflow to automate the whole process using SharePoint Web Services. Why As most SharePoint administrators are aware, it's ALWAYS a bad idea to give staff the ability to create SharePoint sites.  They will end up creating them for the wrong purposes, will not maintain them, no retention policies will get assigned to them, etc. However, you don't want to restrict your users creative freedom.  You want to govern it in a manageable way. In order to keep track of all your SharePoint sites, we need to ensure that when we allow staff to create sites/content, it is being properly tagged with the right information.  As long as you are logging & tagging sites with extra data, you can easily govern and manage those sites far i...

This article stems from another article explaining how to  Automate Site & Group Creation with Nintex Workflow 2010 What Use Powershell to retrieve detailed data about the permission levels on a particular site Why I was looking for a way to automate Site & Group creation using nintex workflows.  In order to create groups, you need to call a SharePoint Web Service.  That Web Service requires an input value called 'permissionMask (int)'. This powershell script will allow you to find the correct permission Mask related to your particular environment & permission levels. How Jump onto your WFE, open up SharePoint Powershell as admin and paste in the following code (with the site you wish to retrieve data for: ## Get site permissions using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri=" http://rootsite/subsite /_vti_bin/Permissions.asmx?wsdl"  ## $siteName is a string which contains the site name for which you need to get the permissions [St...