This blog describes a method for separating ‘proper’ templates from ‘kind-of’ templates in SharePoint libraries, using the file extension and some nifty column formatting courtesy of Microsoft Copilot.
Category: Intranet
You want to open PDFs into Acrobat so you can sign them, add comments etc.
Your browser wants to open them in its PDF viewer which can’t do that.
This blog tells you how to be the victor in this mighty battle.
In this short blog I talk about an option to provide signposting within a Teams area to channels and tabs elsewhere in Teams.
Intranets should be engaging as well as functional; it’s often useful for them to have a personality and a name that resonates. Picking a name needs some thought. This blog should help with that.
There is no desktop application for SharePoint. However there is a lot of SharePoint loveliness you can do on the desktop, including making a SharePoint site in a browser appear to be a desktop app.
As the Microsoft 365 (M365) suite gets inexorably broader and more capable there are increasing amounts of overlap between some elements, such as file storage and collaboration. This article discusses where and how to use OneDrive for Business in the mix.
How to alleviate the annoyance of the App-launch pop up confirmation in the new Edge chromium
There is a lot going on in the digital work place, driven by new technologies, by evolving work patterns, by external challenges (notably climate change and COVID-19) and a realisation that what seemed to work before may not work for us future (if it ever really did).
Navigation within Teams is a problem. Most hyperlinks from a Teams tab to another part of Teams don’t work. This Tips article helps solve the problem
Insights into using the SharePoint Site Swap function, and potential pitfalls
Don’t be fooled by the marketing, demonstrators or “so simple your Mum could do it” claims some would have you believe; in the real world things are more complex and production quality Flows and business solutions need to be developed for that real world.
In addition to uncovering these themes, my latest blog sites does really cool things using machine learning via Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft Flow and SharePoint to automatically tag images. It’s written so that a new Flow user should be able to reproduce it themselves.
with all the options for storing content in Office 365 it’s hard for users to solve the Putability problem. This should help
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