SharePoint Online

How to Modify the SharePoint List Toolbar Buttons

Posted by on September 21, 2024 at 1:42 am

Want to edit the toolbar on a list in SharePoint Online as shown above?  April Dunham has provided an excellent and concise video on YouTube.   She covers how to hide, move, and edit the text on the various toolbar buttons on a SharePoint list by editing the JSON for the List view. Caveat: You have […]

Top-10 Guides for SharePoint Pros from SharePointDiary.com!

Posted by on August 2, 2024 at 7:45 am

I cannot say enough about Salaudeen Rajack.  His website – SharePointDiary.com – is awesome and I often find content there that one simply cannot find elsewhere.  Recently, he posted a list on LinkedIn of 10 excellent (and free) resource guides that he offers on his website.  So I’m copying and pasting the list here for […]

A Brief History of SharePoint 2016-2024

Posted by on July 9, 2024 at 11:24 pm

It feels odd to write a non-technical post but I read an interesting article about product development around the SharePoint ecosystem at Microsoft over the past 8 years and it is worth sharing. This is an interesting behind-the-scenes view.  It seems to me that the focus lately has been on the end-user experience, the UI/UX, […]

Using Content Types to improve Microsoft 365 governance

Posted by on January 12, 2024 at 10:45 pm

Scott Ortlepp at SProbot has provided a step-by-step guide of an end-to-end process for Governance in an M365 environment.  First, he set up a Contract Contact Type, then a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy in the SharePoint Admin Center, followed by setting up a Compliance rule within the policy that blocks files associated with the […]

Clever Product for Working with PDF forms

Posted by on November 2, 2023 at 3:12 pm

Today I was reading this article from the SharePointEurope.com site about PDF forms.  Most likely, as a SharePoint admin you’re going to want to use a SharePoint List to capture input from a form.  The form will probably be either the default form created for you when you created the list, or that very form […]

Block External Access to a Site using PowerShell

Posted by on October 18, 2023 at 5:58 pm

This article from SProbot compares two different methods for blocking external access to SharePoint Online sites:  PowerShell vs Sensitivity Labels. I find the first section on the PowerShell method to be the preferred method.  The caveat here is that to perform this method you must have Global Admin rights on the O365 tenant.  In my […]

Workarounds for SharePoint Online Modern Site Limitations

Posted by on January 2, 2023 at 1:54 pm

If you’re working with a modern SharePoint Online site, such as the modern Communications site, you are probably disappointed at the limited number and features of the web parts available.  Notably, the Script Editor web part (SEWP) and the Content Editor web part (CEWP) are no longer available, which is most unwelcome.  To fill this […]

Clever Techniques for Dealing with Folder Sprawl

Posted by on November 20, 2022 at 10:22 am

I cannot count the number of clients I’ve encountered who have treated the default document library on a SharePoint site as the *only* document library they could use.  So they filled it up with folders, then sub-folders, then sub-sub-folders, etc.  It makes for a difficult conversation.  I usually say “let’s take ALL of the top-level […]

Repair Broken Links Before or After a SharePoint Migration

Posted by on September 6, 2022 at 5:44 pm

Today I found two tools from LinkTek that I want to share.  First, the free one.  LinkReporter is a free tool that reports on broken links throughout your IT enterprise.  I suggest you run it and then decide to either fix the links manually or use a paid product to fix them for you. The […]

How to Enable “View in File Explorer” in Microsoft Edge

Posted by on July 1, 2022 at 8:02 am

June 15, 2022 marked the End of Life for Internet Explorer.  Now, we are redirected to Microsoft’s Edge browser.  It appears that Edge does not support the SharePoint library feature “View in File Explorer” that many of us have come to rely upon.  Apparently, since Edge build 93, the feature is now supported but there […]

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