How to invite external users to Teams
Project Teams come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing that is common among all of them, if you are using Teams to collaborate and chat, you will absolutely…
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5 places to access “Shared with Me” documents in Office 365
As your colleagues share files and folders with you in SharePoint and OneDrive, I am sure you want to easily access all those files instead of going through emails, looking…
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How to access files and folders others shared with you from SharePoint and OneDrive
I blogged in the past that the new best practice is to share files by sharing links to files instead of sending attachments. But here is a dilemma. As users,…
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How to disable External Sharing on a User’s OneDrive
Some time ago, I wrote a detailed blog post on how to adjust external sharing settings for SharePoint and OneDrive and set the company-wide defaults for both. This is something…
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How to share a SharePoint Site externally
What I am going to cover in this article has been somewhat of a matzo ball in SharePoint Online for many years. I am, of course, talking about the external…
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How to limit external sharing by domain in SharePoint Online
Recent improvements to external sharing made it super simple for users to share content from SharePoint and OneDrive externally. Users can share sites, files, and folders literally with a click…
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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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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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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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To Share or not to Share? A must-read for SharePoint Site owners
Just like Hamlet contemplated death and suicide in the famous Shakespeare play with the famous “To be or not to be,” SharePoint Site Owners must also make a very important,…
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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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