Why you should stop emailing file attachments and start sharing SharePoint links instead
Sending emails with several attachments has become a norm over the years. The reason for that, of course, was the fact that this was the only available way to transmit documents such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs or other types over an email. However, with the onslaught of “cloud” storage, like OneDrive and SharePoint, we now have a choice. We can now… keep reading >
6 locations where you can set security for files in SharePoint and Office 365
One of the most frequent concerns/questions users have about security in SharePoint, is whether or not the files you store in Office 365 ecosystem are safe and secure and can’t accidentally be accessed by curious colleagues or discovered by accident by those who do not need to see them. Security, in my opinion, is one of the core strengths of SharePoint (if… keep reading >
No, SharePoint subsites are not evil!
Ever since Microsoft has announced the release of hub sites, SharePoint community has revived the century-old debate about the best ways to organize SharePoint subsites and site collections. I even read posts and tweets calling subsites evil. I could not disagree more with such statements. Just because the new functionality has come out, does not automatically make the existing process bad. Let… keep reading >
How to properly spell SharePoint
If you are a frequent visitor to my blog, you know that I love posting “How to” articles on various out of the box features available in SharePoint. This is another “How to” article, but it is not related to a SharePoint feature, but rather SharePoint itself. Its spelling, to be precise. Let me tell you one thing that really annoys me! I hate… keep reading >
How to access someone else’s OneDrive account
Here is a scenario. Your employee left or is about to leave the organization, but has left lots of valuable intellectual property in his or her OneDrive repository. Or, maybe someone just left on vacation and forgot to publish a very important Sales Proposal to SharePoint. The bottom line is – you need to access someone else’s OneDrive. With this post, I… keep reading >
What is Yammer and why you need it
We have Facebook for sharing cute cat videos, Twitter for bullying and LinkedIn for solving 2nd-grade math problems. And now we have Yammer. What is Yammer and does your organization need it? This post will try to answer these questions. What is Yammer? Yammer is an Enterprise Social Network (ESN) that is part of your Office 365 subscription. It allows for Facebook-style… keep reading >
2 ways to disable modern page comments
With the roll-out of modern pages in SharePoint, team members got the ability to comment on the page contents via the Comments box at the bottom of each page. This is another attempt to make SharePoint more social and less static. The Comments might be handy in some specific use cases. For example, maybe you built a page for some announcement or… keep reading >
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