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Best Practice Content management Microsoft 365 OneDrive SharePoint

Shortcuts vs Sync in SharePoint: What Really Happens

Add shortcut to OneDrive seems like such a nice idea; a useful alternative to the oft-maligned Sync function for those needing desktop access to their files.

But all is not well in Wonderland

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AI Best Practice Content management Copilot Metadata Microsoft 365 SharePoint

Mastering Content Types in SharePoint Online

To build a great content management solution in SharePoint you should use Content Types. Simon Hudson and Mats Warnolf tell you how and why.

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Best Practice Collaboration Content management Intranet Microsoft 365

OneDrive for Business – Why and How

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.

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Metadata Microsoft Office SharePoint

How to ensure Word Quick Parts display Lookup value, not ID

Sometimes embedding SharePoint metadata in Word shows the ID instead of the value. This is why and how to fix it.

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Intranet Microsoft SharePoint UI and UX

Office 365 collaboration – somewhere between easy and hard

The Microsoft Story around Collaboration Has Never Been a Straightforward One, with Different Styles of Collaboration from Email, through Skype and into SharePoint Each Being Supported by Their Own Microsoft Technical Team; at Times It’s definitely felt like the different teams compete rather than collaborate (and the irony is not lost on us). With the […]

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Best Practice Content management Improvement Intranet SharePoint Windows

15 Reasons Not to Use Folders in SharePoint (and 3 reasons why you could)

Folders are terrible as a means of organising content. It’s a deeply broken approach and carrying it over to SharePoint is a deeply bad idea. Here are 15 reasons why and a couple of counter arguments for balance.