I hate pushing Planner and To Do onto people, but they are better than nothing, and they are much better than attempting to use Outlook and Word to manage projects. I was…
SharePoint Permissions Best Practices
Most of this applies best to classic SharePoint sites that are not using M365 Groups. That said, you can and should continue to create additional SharePoint permission groups if you have the…
DISA and Federal KM Symposium Feedback
It has taken me way too long to get to writing this. With a little time off between contracts, I decided to take a couple days and visit this symposium because I…
Put OneNote Meetings in your SharePoint Calendar
If your organization uses SharePoint, there’s at least a few Calendar apps devoted to meetings. It’s the best, most versatile way to display and keep track of meetings—both future and past—for a…
Date Tracking Options in Office 365
This is a few days overdue and not what I was planning on typing up last weekend, but this presented itself as such a weird issue for me the other day that…
Recruiters, Stop Sending Word Forms
Recruiters, get with the times. You are wasting far too much time copying and pasting data from Word document. Give me 10 minutes to get your life back. Let me explain. I…
New Year New Blog
I’m not changing the URL or anything. I was just going through previous posts to find inspiration for something to blog about. It dawned on me that, as always, I need to…
Sharing an O365 SharePoint Library External Anonymously
Just a quick post as a response to a question on a Facebook SharePoint group. He wanted to know, “Is it possible to embed a document library into an external web page?”…
KM Failure #1: Starting New Documents from Emailed Templates
This is going to be the first of many posts on knowledge management failures I have personally noticed over the years. I’m going to point out the problems and provide suggestions on…
My First SharePoint Saturday
I’m relatively new to SharePoint, compared to most. Also, I came up to the development level from the Power User end, not the IT professional end. Luckily, I found some great mentors…