Managing Resources in SharePoint Online (Office365) Site Collections – "You are approaching the maximum storage limit"

Recently, I ran into a problem on my Office365-based SharePoint site. I’ve got an E1 account so that I can test how things work in the cloud. When I went to add a new Site Collection, I saw the message below in yellow. This message itself didn’t make sense to me, since I have only…

Base Your SharePoint Database Architecture on Business Requirements First, Database Concerns Second

Sometimes when I’m speaking at SharePoint events, I’ll mention something about the fact that “the geeks” make decisions about Site Collections and database boundaries that are a detriment to the users. I got a question about this the other day: …you mentioned something that I wanted to follow up on: basically it was a warning…