Team Site or Communication Site?
This has to be one of the critical decisions you will make when creating new sites in SharePoint. Whenever you create a new site, you get two choices: Team Site…
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How to Change the Label to a different Label at the End of the Retention period
One of the decisions you have to make when setting up Retention Labels is to define what happens at the end of the retention period. In most cases, you will…
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How to create Retention Labels based on Events
Some time ago, I published a post explaining how to create and configure retention labels and publish them to SharePoint and OneDrive. Those labels would retain the content tagged with…
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How to delete content from SharePoint Sites using Retention Policies and Retention Labels
Most of my articles about retention were related to the ability to retain content or prevent its modification and deletion for some time. However, there might also be a need…
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SharePoint and Microsoft 365 External Sharing with Microsoft Accounts
I wrote a detailed post some time ago on how external sharing works with guests who do not have a Microsoft account. Today, I want to explain how external sharing…
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Why it is not a good idea to mix folders and metadata in the same document library
As you know from my blog posts, I am a huge fan of metadata. I have many clients who successfully transitioned to metadata for some of the content they migrated…
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Decisions for you to consider when creating a Governance Plan for SharePoint Online
As you venture into the world of SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Groups, and Teams, you might hear the word Governance come up more than a few times. The reason for this…
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3 ways to block download of documents in SharePoint and OneDrive
As I help my clients transition to SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, one of the recurring requests after we set up security and permissions for the sites is usually a request…
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How Preservation Hold Library works in SharePoint and OneDrive
I published a few posts in the past on Site retention policies and retention labels in SharePoint Online. In those posts, I mentioned a hidden document library called “Preservation Hold…
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How to create a Help Desk Ticketing Solution in SharePoint
The last time I wrote a post about this topic was in 2017. That was in the “classic” era of SharePoint when we still had classic web parts, classic look…
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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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