How to approve documents without building a workflow
Quite often, my clients are asking me to build an approval workflow for them. For some complicated parallel or serial approvals, you have to either use SharePoint Designer or Microsoft…
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Office 365 Groups external sharing – how it works
If you ventured yourself into the world of Office 365 Groups, it is only natural that you want to start sharing information stored in the Office 365 Group with external…
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How to use Microsoft Planner for Agile and SCRUM projects
One of the most exciting news that came out during the last year was the release of Microsoft Planner. The tool provides a web-based interface and allows users to manage…
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How does permission-driven security work in SharePoint (also known as security trimming)
One of the biggest concerns companies have out there is that by switching to SharePoint, companies will lose the ability to keep private data private. This is an absolutely wrong…
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How to set site closure and deletion policies in SharePoint Online
We have all been there – you go and do an inventory of your SharePoint environment, and you make it to the subsites that have last been touched by humans…
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How to audit employees in SharePoint Online and Office 365
As your SharePoint Intranet and Office 365 grow in size and usage, I am sure you share the concern for security and integrity of your intellectual property. I am confident…
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How many sites do I have in the Site Collection?
I bet you wanna know. As your SharePoint Intranet grows by leaps and bounds, you want to be in control and know how many sites/subsites you have in your environment.…
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2 ways to see what users have access to in SharePoint
You know how on Facebook and LinkedIn you have the feature to see what your profile looks like to other users? I am sure you wondered what kind of access…
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4 ways to organize project meeting documents in SharePoint
Not sure about you, but I have probably spent at least half of the time from my 15+ years in Project Management, in some sort of meetings… Yeah, I know,…
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5 ways users can benefit from Versioning in SharePoint
In my opinion, versioning in SharePoint is one of its strongest features. It allows for tracking the activity of any item (document, event, task, etc.) and following the audit trail.…
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About Me
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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