Why you no longer need to worry about file naming convention in SharePoint
Those who follow my blogs closely might tell me, after reading the title of the post: “Greg, hold on a second, didn’t you tell us the opposite on July 21,…
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How to create a client, customer or vendor portal in SharePoint Online
These days external sharing is inevitable. Whether you use SharePoint for intranet, project portal, or document management, content exchange with external parties like customers, vendors, and contractors is almost mandatory.…
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5 ways to access Documents in SharePoint Online
When users are introduced to SharePoint Online and Office 365, one of the most frequent questions is “What is the best way to access documents in SharePoint site?” That is…
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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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About Me
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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