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5 things every Site Owner must configure on their SharePoint sites
If you have been assigned a wonderful role of a Site Owner – Mazel Tov! Site Owner is a pretty serious role – you can pretty much do anything you want, including being able to delete a site. I describe in greater detail what a Site Owner can do here. Today though, I want to explain to you the 5 things that… keep reading >
How to stop re-sharing of content in SharePoint and OneDrive
Don’t you hate when your friends give you something for your Birthday that they, in turn, got as a gift themselves? Oh, don’t tell me, you never did this yourself! I will admit it, I did this a few times myself (this is what happens when your friends buy you cheap gifts from Walmart®). We kind of have the same ability in… keep reading >
How to disable External Sharing on a User’s OneDrive
Some time ago, I wrote a detailed blog post on how to adjust external sharing settings for SharePoint and OneDrive and set the company-wide defaults for both. This is something that is controlled in the SharePoint Admin Center, and you can set global defaults as well as site-specific external sharing settings. But what if you want to prevent a specific user (not… keep reading >
How to archive MS Teams
As you manage projects and collaborate with your colleagues via Teams, you will undoubtedly end up with lots of Teams workspaces in your environment. While some of the Teams might be ongoing (operational), the majority of Teams are probably set up for temporary projects or endeavors. What that means is that at some point, you will stop using a particular Team for… keep reading >
4 security roles of a SharePoint site
Fact: Understanding how security works in SharePoint continues to be the leading cause of high blood pressure among SharePoint users. OK, I just made it up, but judging by the number of questions and urgent emails I get from my clients and blog followers, this got to be the biggest matzo ball out there among those using SharePoint Online for collaboration. I… keep reading >
How to change the URL address of a SharePoint site
This happens way too often. You created a Communication site or a Team Site, gave it a name, hit the Create button, and started collaborating. Nice and easy. Only to find out later that you misspelled the name. Or maybe the team or project name has changed, and now you ended up with an old URL. Well, we now have the option… keep reading >
How to access Storage Metrics reports on a SharePoint site
I recently had a client reach out to me with an unusual request. They were constantly running out of space in one of their sites and were always getting warning messages about it. So they wanted to find out what library or file caused the issue. It did not take us long to find the culprit. So let me use this opportunity… keep reading >
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