2 ways to create a new plan in Microsoft Planner
As I have blogged previously, Planner that is part of Office 365 Groups, is a great way to manage team tasks on a small project. As such, it has gained…
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How to make SharePoint metadata columns required
By now, if you have been following my posts, you probably know that I am a huge fan of metadata. One of the questions I always get is how to…
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How many Hub Sites shall we have in SharePoint?
Now that Hub Sites are gaining mainstream popularity, I get this question quite a bit. Just like in the past, we wondered how many site collections to create, we now…
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Why you should never disable Team Site creation in Office 365
It happens quite often when I deliver group training to my clients. I demonstrate how users can create SharePoint Communication and Team sites themselves without the IT involvement, and then…
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How Share and Copy link work in SharePoint and OneDrive
The older I become, the more I come to terms with two realities of life: 1) Santa Claus does not exist, and 2) the SharePoint Online changes are happening way…
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Quick Launch Navigation Menu Best Practices
Quick Launch Menu has been around since older versions of SharePoint and allows users to access other site-specific links no matter where the users are on a site. What I…
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7 ways to preview a document in SharePoint
As you maintain thousands of documents in SharePoint document libraries, it is inadvertent that you might open documents just for the sake of knowing what the document is all about.…
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How to properly configure sharing settings in the SharePoint Admin Center
Every organization is different and might have unique requirements when it comes to external sharing, for example. Whether you will allow or not external sharing is your call. In this…
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Why you need to be careful with the default document library on a SharePoint site
The default document library on a SharePoint site is like a Mother-in-Law. You cannot easily get rid of it, and if you do – you will be in big trouble!…
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Hub Sites vs. Subsites
I had an interesting question come up from one of my clients the other day. A few years ago he provisioned his company’s Intranet with subsites in a single site…
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How many document libraries shall I have in a SharePoint Site?
I get this question a lot from my clients and blog followers. Just like with other things in life, the answer is “it depends.” There is no right or wrong…
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SharePoint is not about templates!
Every once in a while, I get an email from users asking me to sell them a SharePoint site template I developed for one of my previous clients. I politely…
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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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