Adventures in 5000 Item List - SharePoint Office 365
Earlier this week, I blogged about the 5,000 item limit in a SharePoint Document Library within Office 365. Today I am going to document my experience with a SharePoint list when it grows to over 5,000...
View ArticleContinued Adventures in Office 365 SharePoint Document Library 5,000 Item Limit
After my last post discussing my experience with the 5,000 item limit in a SharePoint Document Library on Office 365, I decided to do some further testing. The final resolution that I found to have...
View ArticleShare Office 365 SharePoint Site with External Users
This is a question that I am asked frequently and I thought I would document the solution.First, navigate to the Office 365 SharePoint site:On the upper left hand corner, select Site Actions and then...
View ArticleDisable SharePoint Designer Access Office 365
SharePoint Designer is a free tool available from Microsoft that allows for more advanced development of SharePoint sites. However in some cases, clients have asked to disable SharePoint Designer...
View ArticleInvitation to Sharing Office 365 SharePoint Team Site With External Users
In a previous post I walked through the steps of enabling external user access for an Office 365 SharePoint Team Site. Today, I am going to walk through the steps of actually inviting external users to...
View ArticleMAC and Office 365 SharePoint Document Library Compatibility
There are many MAC users of Office 365 and interacting with a SharePoint Document Library can prove challenging. Microsoft has provided a solution for this with the Microsoft Document Connection....
View ArticleAdd Email Disclaimer Office 365
Most organizations that I work with wish to add a disclaimer of some sort to all outgoing email messages. In this post, I will walk through how to setup email disclaimers.The first step is to login to...
View Article5000 Item Document Library Limit Office 365 Adventures Continued
Some time ago, I had written about my adventures in dealing with the 5,000 item limit in an Office 365 SharePoint Document Library. In troubleshooting and working through this issue, I ended up with a...
View ArticleEmail Signatures
Smart phones have changed everything - even the importance of email signatures. Case in point, I recently had a meeting scheduled with a business acquaintance. This acquaintance was running late for...
View ArticlePardon Our Dust
I am moving into a new Blog template, so please pardon the dust as I work on getting the new template setup.
View ArticleSharePoint Discussion Board List
One of the first questions that many of our customers ask is “What is SharePoint?” Followed by “What can I do with SharePoint”. We have started a series of blog articles that discuss the different...
View Article5,000 Item Limit Office 365 SharePoint - Document Set Solution
My last attempt at working within the 5,000 item limit with SharePoint online was utilizing folders. Yet, I had one other idea to try and that was the use of a Document Set. What is a document set? It...
View ArticleOffice 365 SharePoint Announcements List
This continues a back to the basics series of blogs where the focus is introducing SharePoint to non-SharePoint users. In my recent consulting with Office 365 users, I tend to talk about SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint Announcement Web Part - Permanent Announcement
In my last post, I introduced the SharePoint Announcement web part. A question was posed to me asking how to make a permanent or "sticky" announcement always appear at the top of the Announcement list....
View ArticleSpecify Active Ribbon Office 365 SharePoint
One of the most frequent questions that I get asked is how to default to a specific active ribbon within SharePoint (Office 365 or on premise). Fortunately, directing a link to a specific active ribbon...
View ArticleOffice 365 SharePoint Survey
Many times feedback from co-workers is beneficial. One way to gather that feedback is through the use of SharePoint Surveys. Many of our clients utilize this tool after training classes, to gather...
View ArticleOffice 365 SharePoint Survey Part 2
In my post earlier this week, I went through how to create a SharePoint Survey. Now that the survey is created, there are several options that may provide beneficial and enable us to secure the data.To...
View ArticleHow the Cloud Can Bring Sunshine
Every day it happens – a computer refuses to boot and another hard drive crashes. Over the past week, I have deal with two such incidents and it reminded me of how things have changed for the better in...
View ArticleSharePoint Office 365 External User Filter
A current project of mine has a rather routine requirement, filtering web parts on the page by the current user. This is a relatively simple requirement to fulfill in that I add a User Filter web part...
View ArticleAnonymous Access SharePoint Office 365 Public Web Site
One question that I am asked alot is about SharePoint functionality in the public web site for Office 365. This week, I came across a very interesting solution on CodePlex here (I did not develop this...
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