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,…
Today I noticed something that threw me for a loop. I created a garden variety Team Site and saw that the home page was named CollabHome.aspx. Home pages have been named Home.aspx in SharePoint forever. I did some searching and came up with nothing for “CollabHome.aspx”. One would thing there would be something documented about…
Today one of my clients had a problem. One of her SharePoint sites was missing. She found it in Deleted sites in the SharePoint Admin Center. Restoring the site from the Deleted sites is an easy fix, of course: she had already done that on her own. But none of the Site Owners or Site…
Content Types are a fundamental building block in SharePoint. Every object you upload or create in a SharePoint list or library gets a Content Type assigned to it, whether you realize it or not. If you create an item in a list, by default, it gets the Item Content Type. If you upload a file…
Today I needed to create an array of all the dates in a data range in PowerShell. It’s a simple little thing. Maybe I should have asked Github Copilot, but I’m old skool, so I wrote it myself. (I also haven’t gotten used to having a virtual assistant!) The reason I even needed to do…
Here’s the scenario: we have a site called Clients where we track potential clients and store files we get from them during discussions. Once they become an actual client, we create a Team Site, connect it to Teams, and we move the files into that site. For years, this has frustrated me no end because…
You might be surprised by the title of this post. Isn’t our goal to get everyone’s content *into* SharePoint? Usually that’s the case, for sure. But many times, in the course of a migration from an older (usually on premises) version of SharePoint, we identify whole sites or branches of subsites that simply don’t have…