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 originally going to group everything I hate about Planner and To Do in one post, but I have come back to the top […]
Author: Scott
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 need to segregate content on your modern UI sites. Practice the principle of least privilege. This is specifically because you should not give […]
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 once worked in the Office of Knowledge Management at DISA. I wanted to see how much things had changed, hopefully for the better. […]
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 I needed to say something on the matter and bump it to the top of my list of topics. Folks were not using […]
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 search for all of my clients and route them back through the company where I work so I can W2. Long story short, […]
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 It dawned on me that, as always, I need to post more often and that a lot of this content might feel pretty out of date for anyone using Office 365. For so […]
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?” Well, not exactly because we don’t do anonymous access any longer, but you can do this: Synchronize a library with a folder in […]
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 how to address them. Please provide feedback and insight if you have had any success in combating these problems or if you finally […]
Protect It while you Build It
A long while back I typed up a post about test environments. For the same reasons, I need to explain how you can help prevent giving yourself and your users some headaches. Another contractor working SharePoint—I’d rather not call him a SharePoint developer even though it is his title—with a client has a production version […]
SharePoint Fest DC
You can get a discount on your SharePoint Fest DC ticket with the code they gave me.