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…
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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…
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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…
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Why you need to follow sites in SharePoint
With all these social media tools out there, it seems like all we do these days is Like, Follow, Pin, and Check-in. SharePoint is no exception. It now features a…
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Stop mapping SharePoint Document Libraries as a network drive!
I see this happening over and over again. Companies purchase Office 365 subscription, create a single site in SharePoint with a single document library, migrate their whole file share into…
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How to easily save to SharePoint from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (also known as Save As)
Some time ago, I published a post on various ways to save files to SharePoint. None of the options though replicated the behavior we are used to. I am of…
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3 ways to make a user a Site Collection Administrator
Today I want to explain how to make a user a Site Collection Administrator. Just to be clear, we are talking about Site Collection administrators, not site owners/administrators. To make…
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Why you should never attach documents in a SharePoint list
I see this happening again and again – users attach documents in a SharePoint list. Yes, you can do it – but that is not what the SharePoint list was…
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Do we really need SharePoint?
I got an interesting email a few days ago from CIO of a prospective client of mine. He asked me whether his organization really needed SharePoint. His viewpoint was that…
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3 ways to use the Title field in a SharePoint list or library
I am sure you saw this appear and wondered what it is for. You upload a document to a document library, and there is a field called Title, that you…
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Best practices for SharePoint Site Templates
The ability to create site templates in SharePoint is one of its core strengths. This capability allows organizations to build unique look and feel and functionality into the template and…
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6 ways to save files to SharePoint
I had an interesting and trivial question being asked the other day by one of my clients. “How do I save files to SharePoint?” I almost responded, “You must be…
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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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