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When teams start managing emails in SharePoint, metadata can quickly become more complicated than it needs to be. A new library may begin with a few sensible columns. Over time, more fields are added for departments, categories, document types, status, confidentiality, retention, regions and other details. Soon, users are presented with a long form every […]

Most business decisions do not happen in a single email. A client may ask a question, your team may respond, a file may be revised, and the final approval may come later in the same conversation. By that point, the useful record is not just one message. It is the full conversation. This matters when […]

Email subject lines are not written for record keeping. They are written quickly, often during a busy workday, and usually for the people involved in that moment. That is why subject lines often become messy over time. A simple subject like “Update” may be clear today, but it will mean very little six months later. […]

Shared mailboxes are widely used by teams that need to manage emails from one central address. A support team may use a shared mailbox for customer queries. A finance team may use one for invoices and vendor communication. A project team may use one to track client updates, approvals and attachments. Shared mailboxes are useful […]

Email is one of the most important business records inside an organization. Contracts are approved over email, customer disputes are resolved over email. HR decisions, vendor negotiations, internal approvals, legal correspondence, and financial confirmations often exist as email trails. The email thread is not just communication history, but the record of what was discussed, agreed, […]

Email is still where many business decisions, approvals, client instructions and project updates happen. But once those emails are saved into SharePoint, they often lose the structure that makes them useful. A file named Client approval.msg may tell you very little six months later. Who sent it?Who was copied?Was it sent to the legal team, […]

Duplicate email saves usually start with good intentions. Someone saves an important message to SharePoint. Then a colleague saves the same message again into a slightly different folder. Later, the attachment gets saved separately. Then the same thread is forwarded, renamed, or dropped into a Teams-connected library one more time “just to be safe.” A […]

You save an email from Outlook to SharePoint. Then someone opens the library and says, “Why is this dated today? This email was sent last week.” It is a common point of confusion. What SharePoint is often showing by default is the document’s library timestamp, not the email’s original Sent or Received value. In Microsoft […]

For legal teams, email is not just communication. It is part of the record. Matter discussions, contract negotiations, client instructions, approvals, and supporting attachments often live in Outlook first. Over time, that creates a familiar problem. Important information gets spread across inboxes, forwarded chains, personal folders, shared drives, and disconnected document repositories. When someone needs […]

Email still sits at the center of day-to-day business. It carries contracts, invoices, HR conversations, customer requests, internal decisions, and often the kinds of personal or sensitive information that regulators care about most. That makes email both a productivity tool and a privacy risk. At the same time, data breaches, phishing campaigns, and enforcement actions […]

SharePoint is flexible, which is helpful right up until you have to decide where email records should actually live. Should each department get its own site? Should emails sit in a dedicated library inside a broader site? Or should teams simply save them into the Files area of a Microsoft Teams channel and move on? […]

Konnect eMail Central is available in two versions: Classic and New. Both are designed to move emails and attachments from Outlook into SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive in a structured, compliant way, but they do it slightly differently. This article explains what each version does, how they differ in terms of platform support and user experience, […]

Auto-filing sounds like the dream: emails flow from Outlook into SharePoint without anyone dragging, clicking, or thinking about where they should go. Rules run in the background, content lands in the right libraries, and your compliance team gets a predictable archive instead of a patchwork of PSTs and personal folders. Tools built on Power Automate […]

SharePoint has quietly become the backbone of content and records management in many organisations. Documents that used to sit in shared drives, inboxes, or local folders now live in SharePoint sites, Teams channels, and OneDrive. That’s great for access and collaboration, but it also means you need a clear plan for how long content should […]

Email libraries in SharePoint are where a lot of the “real story” of your organisation ends up: approvals, negotiations, advice, complaints, and decisions. When you move emails out of personal inboxes and into SharePoint, you gain better search, retention, and records management, but you also take on a big responsibility: who can see those emails, […]

Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and deploy Konnect eMail Central for Outlook through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products.

Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and deploy Konnect eMail Central for Outlook through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products.

Email records are no longer just “old emails in Outlook”, they are evidence, audit trails, and in many industries, regulated records. Microsoft 365 gives you the building blocks to manage them, but without a governance blueprint, you end up with gaps between Outlook and SharePoint that show up during audits, disputes, or incident reviews. This […]

Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and deploy Konnect eMail Central for Outlook through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products.

Public folders did their job for a long time: a shared place for departmental emails, calendars, and “team inbox” style workflows. But they were never designed for modern information governance, granular access control, or cross-team collaboration at scale. SharePoint, on the other hand, is built for structured content management: permissions, metadata, retention, search, and collaboration. […]