SharePoint Online lists and libraries can hold up to 30 million files and folders. Sounds great, right? Well, we found that once you reach 5000 items, much of the available features (like group-by) no longer work. We tested the following scenarios related to search and filters in a library that has folders, managed metadata columns [...]
We recently had a client ask us to restore a SharePoint Online site they had deleted. The site had been deleted about 30 days before, and we knew the day of the deletion. When we went to the recycle bin and looked for the site, we didn’t see it; even when looking in the second-stage [...]
Get Started with the HREmployee Self-Service Center SharePoint Online is a powerful platform for information sharing, collaboration, document management and business workflow. But where can you start to get the most out of SharePoint for your organization’s needs? Our HR Employee Self-Service Center focuses on streamlining common business processes to alleviate pressure on your human [...]
Microsoft continues to adjust security around the “sharing” features in SharePoint Online. One recent update provides a feature in the “Classic” SharePoint Online Administration console to adjust sharing for individual site collection so non-owners (Full Control role) cannot share files or sites. The interface is a bit confusing, however. At first glance, it looks like [...]
Many clients and prospective clients ask me: What Office 365 (O365) applications should we use in our business? That’s a hard question to answer, because every organization has its own business processes, culture, experience in existing Microsoft applications, and familiarity in using a cloud-based system. In my experience, an organization will have much better adoption [...]
I recently ran into a scenario where we assisted a client in setting up an O365 Trial Tenant while they worked out licensing with their volume reseller and several internal application compatibility issues. We set up AD Connect, synced their user accounts, and waited for licenses to be associated from their Enterprise Agreement. And waited. [...]
PowerApps is one of the simplest, most useful tools available to Microsoft users. It allows you to customize Office 365 and Dynamics 365 with powerful apps that span productivity and business data. You can tailor SharePoint Online with PowerApps, use it with Microsoft Teams, and build applications on Dynamics 365. The possibilities are endless! Register [...]
It saves all your edits and you may not know it! It changes your original behind the scenes! Run away, run away! Just Kidding! Content auto-save is a feature that automatically saves real time edits to Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). Auto-save was introduced with Office Online, and impacts files stored in Office 365 [...]
SharePoint Online is a powerful platform for information sharing, collaboration, document management and business workflow. But where can you start to get the most out of SharePoint for your organization’s needs? Our HR Portal solution focuses on streamlining common business processes to alleviate pressure on your human resources department. Release the power of SharePoint Online [...]
Modern pages represent Microsoft’s updates to make SharePoint Online more responsive and browser-compatible. As part of a staged reworking of SharePoint Online, Modern pages are still a limited set of functionality in existing SharePoint deployments. In this blog, we will look at where Modern pages stand as of this writing. One important item of note [...]
