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…
Category: Information Architecture
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…
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…
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….
Knowledge Curation
I was working with a group of folks the other day who wanted to redesign the site. They had a lot of ideas for one page. They had no ideas for the…
Permissions 101
The basics of SharePoint permissions haven’t changed too much over the versions, but there are things Microsoft has done with SharePoint 2013 with sharing I do not appreciate. Worse is the newer…