5 Essential Naming Conventions to Know in SharePoint
You know when a doctor reviews your symptoms and vital signs to identify the underlying condition? Well, sometimes I feel like a doctor myself when working with SharePoint. Why? Looking…
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3 Views of a SharePoint Document Library
I published a similar article about the views on a list, however, we have the same capability on document libraries as well. When we work with Microsoft Lists, we tend…
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4 Types of Libraries in SharePoint
When we think of a library in SharePoint, we typically think of it as a place to store working documents like Word, Excel, and PDFs. However, this is not the…
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Top 5 Features of SharePoint Flexible Sections
In a recent article, I introduced you to Flexible Sections. This quickly becomes one of my favorite capabilities as it allows you to create much more visually appealing SharePoint sites.…
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2 ways to make metadata columns available in all SharePoint Sites
One key reason for setting up metadata in SharePoint is the ability to standardize across multiple sites with a common tagging and naming convention. Let’s say your organization decided to…
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How to Design SharePoint Information Architecture for Colleges and Universities
One category of my clients that uses SharePoint and related applications is colleges and universities. Microsoft even has special licensing and plans for the EDU space. SharePoint makes sense for…
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How to enroll in the Targeted Release Program
I am often asked by my loyal followers how to stay ahead of upcoming changes in SharePoint and prepare yourself and your employees for them. While there are many tricks…
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How to display the contents of a folder on a SharePoint page
The functionality I am about to describe in this article is quite a common requirement and request, especially on the Communication, employee-facing sites. The requirement is to display the contents…
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How to Prevent Oversharing with Site-Level Access Restriction
Oversharing in SharePoint has always been a hot topic of debate and frustration for IT teams, Security, and Compliance managers. While certain capabilities to minimize oversharing do exist, they often…
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Hub sites vs. Subsites in SharePoint
I first published an article on this topic back in 2019. This was when we still had subsites in use quite extensively, and the main goal of my article was…
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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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