SharePoint Maven is 5 years old!
SharePoint Maven is 5 years old! I started my blog this month, 5 years ago (November 2013). Many of you ask me how I got into all this. Entrepreneurs and small business owners usually have these cool stories on how they left an amazing, six-figure job and started a business. Well, let me tell you my story. I never had a six-figure… keep reading >
How to create sites and site collections from a SharePoint Site Template
I have blogged numerous times previously about the benefits of the site templates in SharePoint. Templates allow users to “lock” a particular look and feel and structure of a site and quickly replicate it in their environment. This is quite handy when you want to quickly replicate and roll out a few project sites or department sites based on the same look… keep reading >
How to properly deactivate a user in Office 365 and SharePoint
People come and go. It is an inevitable reality, and as you hire employees, I am sure you also deal with employees leaving the organization for one reason or another. But how do you deal with this in the context of Office 365? What would be the proper way to deactivate a user in Office 365 and SharePoint? Below is a list… keep reading >
6 reasons why you need to embrace SharePoint Content Types
If you have been reading my posts about metadata and taxonomy, I am sure you ran into something called content types. I blogged previously about what they are and how to set them up. Today, I want to provide you with a few reasons why you should incorporate SharePoint content types into your company’s enterprise document management strategy. So below you will find… keep reading >
How to change date format in SharePoint
Not sure if you noticed, but by default, SharePoint Sites display the dates in US format (MM/DD/YYYY). While this might work for US-based companies, you might want to display dates in a different format, that is customary to the country/location you are based in. With this blog post, I will explain how to change the date format in SharePoint and what the… keep reading >
Why you should stop disabling external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive
OK, this is yet another one of those “I told you so” blog posts. I see this happening all the time when I work with my clients: IT or Management completely disabling external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Just to be clear what I mean by external sharing here – the ability to share sites, files and folders stored from… keep reading >
How to hide SharePoint Announcements past the expiration date
One of the out of the box web parts that is a great addition to any Intranet homepage is the Announcements Web Part. It allows to easily create short notices and company announcements and makes the content of Intranet Homepage more dynamic and fresh. Each of the announcements contains a brief headline, as well as short description of the announcement. In this blog… keep reading >
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