Site Designs have made the deployment of repeatable customisation of sites much easier, and in my opinion are the starting point for any SharePoint deployment for communication or collaboration. While the capabilities of Site Designs are well documented and continue to evolve, I see many environments where the deployment of the Site Scripts and Site Read More
Category: Office 365
Installation of Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways
Microsoft recently launched Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways as a solution that will allow an organisation to provision a learning site into their tenant which can then be used by their employees to learn about Microsoft 365. To quote Microsoft, the solution will provide A fully customizable SharePoint Online communication site – The learning pathways training portal Read More
End of Year Task Tidy Up
It’s the end of the year, you’re on annual leave to enjoy the holidays, rest, recharge your batteries and then get back to work in January with a tons of energy and enthusiasm, and no outstanding tasks. Wait a minute. That last part! That’s not true, I have a ton of stuff left in To-Do Read More
Rename a Microsoft Team and the associated SharePoint site
There are many situations where a Teams site and the underlying SharePoint site may need to be renamed: Created in error Organisational restructure Introduction of naming policies This has been a challenging goal to achieve but it is now relatively straightforward when you combine the SharePoint and Teams PowerShell commandlets. Objective Starting with a SharePoint Read More
Ignite 2019 – Day 2
After a full-on first day, day 2 was set to be even more full on with every slot double or treble booked! Azure Active Directory: New features and roadmap Link to recording As such a key component of every project based on Office or Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory is a must know product. Having Read More
Chromium Edge – Create your own shortcuts
For years, Google Chrome has been my choice of browser when working with Office 365 environments as it has supported multiple personas that can have their own stored passwords, favourites, and bookmarks. This has been invaluable when working with client environments as I can create a persona for a client, and then remove that persona Read More
Microsoft To-Do is good for our mental health
It may seem like a strange statement to make and many will immediately deny it and talk about how a software product is not usually something that we consider good for our heath, unless it is re-enforcing our belief that we are doing enough exercise! The reason I believe that this statement is true is Read More
Folders vs. Metadata in the modern world
I have worked with many clients over many versions of SharePoint and over the years the attitude to folders has evolved quite a lot. I am sure many of us remember certain colleagues who have been quite stubborn in their view that folders are the spawn of the devil! In the beginning, there were file Read More
Is SharePoint Accessible?
Around the world there are legislative requirements that guarantee that services are accessible by those with impairments. In the UK, the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 and the subsequent Equality Act of 2010 enforce these rights and in the US Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act enforces them. These acts essentially place a duty of Read More
Office 365 and Azure –Most useful links
There are many links that I find myself going to over and over again for different elements of Office 365 and Azure Blogs Technology URL Office 365 https://blogs.office.com Intune https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoftintune/ Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ Roadmap For details of the developments that are in progress and being rolled out Technology URL Office 365 https://roadmap.office.com Cloud Platform https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/roadmap/ Read More