How to replace a classic root site in SharePoint Online with a modern site
If your organization enrolled in the Office 365 subscription prior to April 2019, your root SharePoint site was created with what we now call “classic team site template.” While all new sites you create now are going to be modern, the root site (which was provisioned at the time of the subscription) still bears the classic look and feel. Every time I… keep reading >
What is Microsoft To Do?
Whether you need to buy a bottle of milk on the way home or complete the project proposal at work, our life consists of tasks. Up until recently, there was no good option to manage individual tasks in SharePoint and Office 365. That changed though with the introduction of Microsoft To Do. What is Microsoft To Do? Microsoft To Do is a… keep reading >
5 ways to display Employee Birthdays and Anniversary Dates in SharePoint Online
One of the common requests for Company Intranets is the ability to display employee birthdays or anniversary dates on a main SharePoint Intranet landing page. While there is no dedicated, out of the box web part that allows you to do this (yet), there are a few tricks in the book that I employed for my clients in the past. That’s what… keep reading >
Does metadata still make sense in SharePoint Online?
Unlike most of my other posts, which are instructional, this one is philosophical. I am writing this post late at night while sipping a glass of red wine (because my doctor told me I should not eat just before I go to bed and I really need something to get my creative juices flowing). 🙂 Lately, I have been getting this question… keep reading >
How to embed content from other websites in SharePoint Online
When my clients ask me to define SharePoint, I always describe it as a one-stop-shop for any content within an organization. True to its name, it does that in a very spectacular fashion. However, it is not restricted to just the content and information created and managed directly in SharePoint. You can also bring in content from other (external) web pages as… keep reading >
Top 10 features of Microsoft Stream
What I like about Microsoft Stream is that it is not just a platform to store videos. Since Microsoft Stream is part of Office 365, it is tightly integrated with its other components, like SharePoint and Office 365 Groups. A while back, I wrote an article introducing you to Microsoft Stream. Today, I would like to highlight, what in my opinion are,… keep reading >
How to create an alert on metadata value in SharePoint
A while back, I published a blog post on how to create an alert in SharePoint. Today I would like to take this functionality further and explain to you a neat trick on how to set up conditional alerts based on metadata value. Here is a scenario. You have a document library with a Status column and would like to be notified… keep reading >
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