One of my clients who doesn’t have a blog came up with a good fix the other day. Since he didn’t have a place to put it, he offered it to me to post. Have you ever deleted a Content Type from the Content Type Hub which you had previously published – without unpublishing it…
This is a simple little thing, but one I just couldn’t figure out for the longest time. When that happens, I like to fall on my sword in case it helps someone else. One of my clients had a view like this in several of their lists – and yes, I’ve blurred the last names…
As our tenants evolve, we end up renaming sites and/or changing their URLs. When we change the URL of a site in the SharePoint Admin Center, the URL changes, just like we asked. SharePoint also leaves the old site in place, but converts it into a Redirect Site. So if we had a site at…
When we use SharePoint lists as data sources for Power BI, there are all sorts of tricks and gotchas. As with any rapidly evolving technology, some of the tricks we find on the InterWebs are helpful, some are out or date, and some are just plain wrong. Recently I ran into a confusing issue when…
Another day, another chunk of PowerShell. Sometimes when we iteratively build out our information architecture, we’re over-zealous. It seems like we need a set of Site Columns to maintain metadata on lists or libraries, but in the end, we decide we want to trim away a few of the Site Columns we’ve created. Or, maybe…
Have I ever mentioned how important Content Types are in SharePoint? Almost everything you work with in SharePoint has a Content Type. If you’re just using Document and Item, you’re really not using the platforms. In this post, I want to talk about Site Content Types and the Location column type. Location Columns Sometime in…
This isn’t rocket science, but it’s something I do often enough that I want to lodge the PowerShell in a post instead of continuing to rewrite it. When we are building an Intranet, we often want to grant permissions for all the Communication Sites to a small set of people during the testing process. This…
This is a quick tip about a SNAFU which caught me up today. I got to do a “Doh!” in front of a client, which is always fun. Hopefully this will save you the same embarrassment. Filtering News pages based on some metadata applied to the pages is a thing, and has been for a…
Here’s a quick tip to improve your Global Navigation for the new SharePoint App Bar. From what I’ve seen, most organizations will use the Hub or global navigation for the App Bar’s home link – which is the Global Nav. The root site of the tenant should be a Home Site and also a Hub…
In SharePoint – because it’s primarily a collaboration platform – we often struggle with the difference between security and obscurity. Some content absolutely must be secured, meaning only certain people can see or edit it. In these cases, we set the permissions such that people simply can’t see or even be aware of the content….