Site Designs (See the Site design JSON schema article for all the great things we should be able to do with them) continue to seem like an awesome way to roll out a sound information architecture, yet they are still buggy and lack some basic reliability. I wish Microsoft would pay more attention to this…
Clients often ask us how they can monitor the health of the Microsoft 365 (née Office 365) service. The first place you should check is in the Service Health dashboard in your tenant. You need to be a Global Admin to see this dashboard, so hopefully your admins are communicative and let the general population…
I should tag a lot of my posts with “I’m an idiot, so you don’t need to be one, too”. We’ve been having printing problems at Sympraxis Global Headquarters (aka “My House”) on and off for most of this year. Our devices have beenn seeing the printer as offline, even when it wasn’t. I’d racked…
Site Designs are a relatively new capability in SharePoint Online. While they were introduced in 2018, there hasn’t been much change to them since. This is disappointing to me, as I believe they have tremendous potential. One possible use is to manage the life cycle of a unit of work. In this post, I’ll talk…
I saw this trick during a recent webinar or session, but I can’t remember who showed it. I think it’s useful enough to share. If it’s your trick, please let me know and I’ll give you credit! Right now, we don’t have permission trimming in Hub Site navigation. It’s coming, but until it’s there sometimes…