How to make SharePoint metadata columns required
By now, if you have been following my posts, you probably know that I am a huge fan of metadata. One of the questions I always get is how to…
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What are Microsoft Forms?
If you happen to click on an App Launcher within your Office 365 suite, you will notice an app called Forms. In this article, I want to introduce you to…
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Office 365 Group or Communication Site?
Paper or plastic – this was the phrase I uttered to shoppers when I used to pack bags in a supermarket. When I immigrated to the US in 1993, packing…
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How many Hub Sites shall we have in SharePoint?
Now that Hub Sites are gaining mainstream popularity, I get this question quite a bit. Just like in the past, we wondered how many site collections to create, we now…
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Why you should never disable Team Site creation in Office 365
It happens quite often when I deliver group training to my clients. I demonstrate how users can create SharePoint Communication and Team sites themselves without the IT involvement, and then…
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How Share and Copy link work in SharePoint and OneDrive
The older I become, the more I come to terms with two realities of life: 1) Santa Claus does not exist, and 2) the SharePoint Online changes are happening way…
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Quick Launch Navigation Menu Best Practices
Quick Launch Menu has been around since older versions of SharePoint and allows users to access other site-specific links no matter where the users are on a site. What I…
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10 Office 365 mobile apps you must have on your phone
Remember when Apple® released iPods, the most popular question for celebrities and politicians was – “What kind of music do you have stored on your iPod?” Now, I am not…
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7 ways to preview a document in SharePoint
As you maintain thousands of documents in SharePoint document libraries, it is inadvertent that you might open documents just for the sake of knowing what the document is all about.…
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How to properly configure sharing settings in the SharePoint Admin Center
Every organization is different and might have unique requirements when it comes to external sharing, for example. Whether you will allow or not external sharing is your call. In this…
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I’m Greg Zelfond, a U.S. based SharePoint consultant, and I provide affordable out-of-the-box SharePoint consulting, training, and configuration assistance to small and medium-sized businesses all over the world.
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