Posts Tagged "Best Practices"
Why you should stop disabling external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive
OK, this is yet another one of those “I told you so” blog posts. I see this happening all the time when I work with my clients: IT or Management completely disabling external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Just to be clear what I mean by external sharing here – the ability to share sites, files and folders stored from… keep reading >
How to grant all employees access to a SharePoint site via Everyone except external users Group
As you create SharePoint sites in your Intranet, I am sure you have a need when to make the site available to everyone in your organization. An example could be an HR Employee Site or an Intranet Homepage site – these sites would typically be visible and should be visible and accessible to everyone in your organization. How do you go about… keep reading >
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 question # 1 and “No” to question # 2 – just another typical day in the life of SharePoint consultant. 🙂 Thanks for asking, though. The reason for this post is that… keep reading >
SharePoint Modern Page Best Practices
It has been around two years since I published SharePoint Page Design best practices post. That was when we only had classical Wiki Pages at our disposal. A lot has changed since then. Classical Wiki Pages are pretty much a thing of the past now. If you are in SharePoint Online, you should only create new site pages using modern page experience.… keep reading >
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 or Office 365 Group, add members to the members group, but who should be in the Site Owners one? An important part of SharePoint Governance is to assure that all SharePoint sites are… keep reading >
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 keep things simple. However, it is very important that you do not go overboard here with “tiding things up” and deleting everything in your path. No, I am not asking you to… keep reading >
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 documents such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs or other types over an email. However, with the onslaught of “cloud” storage, like OneDrive and SharePoint, we now have a choice. We can now… keep reading >
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