Working in a client tenant today, I noticed a new suggestion in the SharePoint Admin Center I hadn’t seen before. It’s certainly possible it’s been around for a while, but it was new to me. The tenant where I’m working has been around since at least 2015. That means it was created with a classic…
This is something that’s happened to me in multiple tenants recently. When I delete a News Post which I’ve created in a Hub Site, the post never goes away in the News Web Part. It always seems to be a post we’ve created as some sort of point-proving demo, too. You know, with a title…
At Sympraxis, we often work with clients who have been using SharePoint for a long time. In many of these cases, they have been using SharePoint basically as a cloud-based file server. At some point in the past, they have done a lift and shift from “on premises” servers (wherever they may live) into SharePoint…
In modern SharePoint, we have content management tools which have been honed over decades of SharePoint use. At the same time, our ideas about content management have evolved over that time. People are far more comfortable maintaining content on the Web than they were when SharePoint first was released. Back then, we were often transitioning…
When you create a Team Site in SharePoint, you have an option to set the Team Site as: Public – anyone in the organization can access this site, or Private – only members can access this site Many people don’t know what the effect this setting has – I need to remind myself from time…
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…
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….