Where’s My SharePoint Site? Ask the `AAD to SharePoint Sync` User

Where’s My SharePoint Site? Ask the `AAD to SharePoint Sync` User

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…

Goals for your IT Team When They Free Up Time Through Automation

Back in October, I was lucky enough to visit my friends at ShareGate, along with fellow MVPs Jasper Oosterveld (@jappie1981) and Maarten Eekels (@maarteneekels) We had several conversations with ShareGate’s Laurent St. Pierre (@laurent_sp), and those were recorded and released as a series of videos: The evolution of IT: Improving digital employee experience to boost…

An Unfortunate `API access` UI in the SharePoint Admin Center

Orchestry is a partner of ours at Sympraxis. (Ask us about them anytime!) We love their toolset and recommend them frequently to our clients to improve their governance and provisioning activities. The stuff they build is incredibly powerful – and reliable. That’s why I was really surprised when I added the Orchestry People List Web…

Set Default Site Time Zone in Office 365

Imagine my pleasure to see this tweet first thing this morning from Sohail Merchant (@sohailmerchant)! I’m not sure when this actually showed up, but it’s an ask from me which goes back almost four years on UserVoice. Interestingly enough, they are still THINKING ABOUT IT. I don’t see anything obvious on the Office 365 Roadmap,…

Enabling the “Anyone” Sharing Setting in and Office 365 Site

Julie (@jfj1997) and I are working hard on SPS New England coming up on October 28 in Burlington, MA. I wanted to set up an easy place for the speakers to drop their slide decks. We have a perfectly good Office 365 tenant, so I figured I’d just create a Document Library somewhere and share the…

Managing Resources in SharePoint Online (Office365) Site Collections – "You are approaching the maximum storage limit"

Recently, I ran into a problem on my Office365-based SharePoint site. I’ve got an E1 account so that I can test how things work in the cloud. When I went to add a new Site Collection, I saw the message below in yellow. This message itself didn’t make sense to me, since I have only…

Book Review: “Beginning SharePoint 2010 Administration” by Göran Husman and Christian Ståhl

The actual title of this book is the somewhat long "Beginning SharePoint 2010 Administration: Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010".  Christian and I have chatted back and forth many times on Twitter and via our blogs, etc., and he offered me a free copy (Yes, Mr. FTC Man, a free copy.) back…