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How to add SharePoint Tiles, promoted links, to your site
A quite useful usability feature that I like and highly recommend for your SharePoint sites is called “SharePoint Tiles” (also known as Promoted Links). It is a great way to “spice up” your site, make it more user-friendly for your end users and break away from stale out of the box look and feel. In this post, I provide step-by-step instructions on… keep reading >
How to add a Video in SharePoint
One of the cool features Microsoft has recently rolled out was an ability to store video files in Office 365. While SharePoint excels in storing productivity type files like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF, video in SharePoint was always a challenge. The files are usually pretty big in size, most violate 2GB file size limit and not user-friendly to maneuver in SharePoint Document… keep reading >
How to overcome SharePoint 5000 item limit threshold
If you are reading this blog post, you have probably already encountered or are concerned about the infamous 5000 items threshold limit in SharePoint. With this blog post, I would like to clarify on what exactly the issue is, how to prevent it and how to fix it, in case you encountered it. The following article provides tips and recommendations for addressing this issue… keep reading >
Setting proper SharePoint Time Zone for users
If you are an organization that has offices spanning multiple time zones – then you have a dilemma. What time zone should you set for your SharePoint and how do you set time such that each user sees calendar entries and time stamps in SharePoint in their local time? Let’s start with an example. If you have set your default time zone… keep reading >
How to Migrate Documents to SharePoint and Office 365: Step-by-Step Instructions
With the popularity of Microsoft’s Office 365 / SharePoint Online plans, lots of small organizations and non-profits are switching to Office 365 to take advantage of attractive per-user pricing model and one-stop shop capability of Office 365. However, the biggest challenge many companies face are on how to migrate documents to SharePoint from their current repositories located on file shares, DropBox and… keep reading >
WTF? Top 10 SharePoint terms and acronyms explained
Ever wondered what all those SharePoint terms and acronyms mean? This presentation will explain… Alerts, Check-in/Check-out, Metadata, Content Type, OOTB, SPD, Web Part, View, Permissions, Version Top 10 SharePoint Terms and Acronyms Explained from Gregory Zelfond
Unwanted password prompts in SharePoint
If you are one of those people who is getting annoyed by re-appearing password prompts in SharePoint, join the club! Luckily there is a fix! The problem is limited to Internet Explorer web browser and only to the cases when user is trying to open MS Office files (Word, Excel, etc.). Step-by-step instructions on how to fix this issue are detailed in… keep reading >
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