This is truly one of the best tricks I’ve learned in all the years I’ve been using SharePoint. When you refresh a page, it can take 8-10 (or more) seconds before the gear (aka cog) is visible. This first animation shows the normal timing. But if you simply click on your name or face, the…
Some settings in SharePoint don’t make a lot of sense. And sometimes they bite you. There are a few little-known settings in the SharePoint Admin Center for pages. These are tenant-level settings: By default, both settings are checked – they are enabled. The second one about commenting makes some sense: since comments are pretty much…
This is a quick one, but I’ve done it enough times, I figured I should write it up. If you’ve landed here because of searching, I hope I’m making your day go better. Have you ever navigated to a SharePoint site you’ve been to hundreds of times and gotten the dreaded 404 NOT FOUND error?…
Document Sets are one of the best things in SharePoint. They help you manage a set of documents which have more value together than separately. They also give you some great special capabilities beyond what a folder can provide: All that said, Microsoft says they don’t see enough usage to justify investments in them. (See…
Until recently, one of the easiest ways to get “into” Microsoft 365 was to go to Office.com. I’ll readily admit that I never spent any time on the page, mainly because most of my time in Microsoft 365 is spent building sites, pages, libraries, etc.
Microsoft modernized Document Sets a few years ago – sort of. They really didn’t finish the job, and they seem to be under the impression that few people use Document Sets. Everyone I know who understands good Information Architecture (IA) knows about Document Sets, and they use them when they make sense – which can…
Sharing content in SharePoint using links is a great capability. Microsoft has worked over the years to make the process simple to use, and we even see the same sharing dialog in SharePoint and on our PCs when we share using Windows Explorer. As tenant owners, we can set the default type of sharing link…
Last Thursday, I did a webinar with ShareGate covering the upcoming changes for unlicensed OneDrives: Race against the OneDrive clock: How to stay ahead of Microsoft’s deadline I tried to cover many aspects of the upcoming changes, which are primarily outlined in this article from Microsoft: Manage unlicensed OneDrive user accounts – SharePoint in Microsoft…
Recently as I’ve been editing SharePoint pages, I’ve noticed that the Discard changes button is missing in the toolbar. It’s a tiny little thing, and I just assumed that it was an occasional bug. But now that the new experience has rolled out to more tenants I work in, I’ve realized it’s a real change, not just a bug.
There has been a lot of confusion about what’s happened to the SharePoint Lookbook. I’ve found myself explaining the story to many people, so I thought capturing it in a blog post might be helpful: if only so I can refer people to it instead of typing again.