Posts Tagged "Best Practices"
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 >
6 locations where you can set security for files in SharePoint and Office 365
One of the most frequent concerns/questions users have about security in SharePoint, is whether or not the files you store in Office 365 ecosystem are safe and secure and can’t accidentally be accessed by curious colleagues or discovered by accident by those who do not need to see them. Security, in my opinion, is one of the core strengths of SharePoint (if… keep reading >
No, SharePoint subsites are not evil!
Ever since Microsoft has announced the release of hub sites, SharePoint community has revived the century-old debate about the best ways to organize SharePoint subsites and site collections. I even read posts and tweets calling subsites evil. I could not disagree more with such statements. Just because the new functionality has come out, does not automatically make the existing process bad. Let… keep reading >
How to create a custom list in SharePoint
We have lots of out of the box web parts at our disposal in SharePoint. We have Tasks for task management, issues for issues management, a calendar for events, and so on. But what if you want to create a custom list in SharePoint with your own custom columns and replicate, say an Excel spreadsheet? It is not that hard at all… keep reading >
How to share files and folders externally in SharePoint
I wanted to write this post for such a long time. And happy I finally can. Anyone who tried to share content externally in SharePoint Online/Office 365 knows that it wasn’t an easy endeavor. Sharing itself was not that hard. However, experience for the recipient was a big pain in the ass. For the recipient, it was almost like a visit to… keep reading >
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