Posts Tagged "Best Practices"
Why you no longer need a SharePoint Document Center
In case your organization is using a SharePoint Document Center, I would like to use the opportunity to explain why you should not. I know, you might be surprised by such a bold statement, but hey, someone has to break the news to you. 🙂 Let me explain. What is a SharePoint Document Center Historically, we all used SharePoint as just another… keep reading >
How to Create Hub Sites in SharePoint Online
Ever since Microsoft announced Hub Site functionality last year, SharePoint community literally has gone meshugana over it. Hub Sites became the new coolest thing and the new buzzword. So, with this post, I would like to explain what the fuss is all about, what the hub sites are, how to create them, what are the use cases for them and whether or… keep reading >
Why flat SharePoint Site Architecture makes total sense
“The World Is Flat” is the title of one of my favorite books by Thomas Friedman on the effect of globalization in the 21st century. However, the same title or phrase is also relevant to SharePoint, thanks to the changes made by Microsoft over the last few years. With this post, I would like to explain the benefits of a flat hierarchy… keep reading >
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 >
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