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.
One of the downsides of being immersed in the Microsoft 365 platform is I develop habits based on how the platform worked historically. One of these is my choice to use Sync with Document Libraries exclusively, instead of Add shortcut to OneDrive. (Note that the language on this “button” has changed over time, but as…
If you’ve been using SharePoint for a while, you know that newly added content may not show up in search results immediately. These days, you my most directly notice this with News Posts in roll up News Web Parts or simply using the Microsoft Search box at the top of every page. Microsoft 365 had…
Over the last few months – since around January – I’ve needed to enable Global Navigation in a SharePoint Home Site as part of three new Intranet launches. In each case, it took a VERY long time to take effect and/or didn’t happen until I worked with Microsoft to come up with an unexpected fix.
One thing you learn very early on in consulting (if you don’t – uh-oh!) is that organizational cultures vary drastically. There are many different dimensions to this. Some organizations are very open and honest – perhaps to a fault – and others tend to keep most things hidden from other groups or people. Regardless of…
I think this is going to really boost how fast we can build data collection for lists with no dev at all: Collect information like a pro New Microsoft Lists forms experience in Microsoft 365 Until this rolls out, we have had several approaches we could use (and there may be others): Each of these…
Knowledge management (KM) is hard. This has been proven to me many times over the last 30 or so years I’ve been paying attention to the concepts. With the announcement of the abrupt retirement of Viva Topics as of February 22, 2025, I’ve been thinking about the history of KM solutions from Microsoft and where they have all gone.
When we build a new Home Site in a client tenant, usually for a new Intranet, we generally build that new site off in a corner, so it’s not exposed or in the way while we build it. This process can take a few weeks, months or even longer, and while we’re working on things,…