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…
At Sympraxis, we work with organizations in a wide variety of industries. That’s one of the reasons we love working with SharePoint and Office 365 – there are no vertical focuses required. Organizations of just about every size and shape use these platforms, which makes life much more interesting. That said, people in different industries…
Well, it’s not totally new – Vesa (@VesaJuvonen) gave me ownership of sp-usage-docs in May, but I’m just now getting to the point where I feel a blog post is merited. A little background… For quite a few years, Tom Resing (@resing) and I have been talking about the existing SharePoint documentation and who it…
Every one of the ideas behind Agile Makes darn good sense, but I have never seen things work the way one would like. In the article ‘How Agile Fails in Practice’, Sam Redmond quite eloquently points out some of the failings of Agile. But I think the article itself fails toward the end where the…
I see a lot of people getting stuck on this. There are many posts in many forums saying something like: Hi,[some code] not working in IE11. In chrome& Edge its working fine below is my code: … This is most often in the context of using PnPjs, but sometimes in other cases. If you find…
Last week, I wrote a post about using Invoke-SPOSiteSwap to swap a new modern site into the root site of our Sympraxis tenant. While it worked just great, there were some follow on issues I wanted to document in case you might run into them, too. Nothing horrible, but a bit of required cleanup. The…
No matter how long you work with Office 365, you find little strange things that don’t make any sense. We’re working at the Office 365 Hands-On Kitchen at SPTechCon Boston. On a beautiful Sunday in August inside a meat locker. (It’s really cold in the Sheraton.) You should really be here. We were testing News…