Power Automate (formerly called Microsoft Flow) is the automation tool for the M365 suite of products. Like many of you, I grew accustomed to using Workflows and the SharePoint Designer tool to create and edit workflows in previous versions of SharePoint. Now with Power Automate, there are several ways to connect with other systems. I’ll […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fortunately for me, I’ve switched over to SharePoint Online. However, for those admins who are running SharePoint Server 2019 on-premise, the recently released May 2022 Cumulative Update (CU) may make your entire left-hand navigation disappear! Thankfully, Stefan Goßner at Microsoft has posted the issue details and the resolution on his wonderful blog. Remember: when installing […]
Recently, Microsoft has added a nifty button in the upper-left corner of SharePoint Online (part of the Microsoft 365 package) that renders the logged-in user’s recent history for Sites, Lists, and Files, as well as recommended news and global navigation. The App Bar button is just to the right of the Microsoft 365 “waffle” icon […]
