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.…
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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…
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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…
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Go back to Dropbox!
I know what you are might be saying to yourself. Greg, are you having a bad day, or did you have too much coffee this morning? It is “No” to…
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How to create file duplicate in SharePoint Online
Quite often we need to create a copy of the file. Say we are working on a client proposal and signed a new client. So you might want to use…
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Who should you make a SharePoint Site Owner?
OK, this post is not “technical” like most of the other ones on my site. Instead, it is philosophical. I get this question a lot. You set up your SharePoint Site…
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Why you should never delete some SharePoint elements
Yeah, for the minimalist guy like me – the topic of this post is kind of odd. If you have been following my posts, you know that I like to…
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How to prevent team site members from editing SharePoint pages
In this post, I am going to describe how to get around a pretty damaging issue in SharePoint Sites. It is the ability of regular members of the site to…
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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…
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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…
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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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