SharePoint access issues are sometimes tricky. Simplifying things though, access issues ultimately fall into two categories: authentication or authorization. Authentication asks a very simple question. Are they permitted/ allowed to access the content? If yes, then they can open SharePoint. Otherwise, they get an access denied screen. Figure 1 - Account not authorized, but able … Continue reading SharePoint: Access Issues | Authentication vs. Authorization
SharePoint Server
SharePoint: Prevent Folder Move
SharePoint is a collaboration platform that also encourages self-governance. Sure, the IT department could deploy and manage all things SharePoint, but that isn't always best. In an ideal, balanced partnership, IT would just handle the administrative tasks and empowered users would provision their own site collections, manage their own site access, and create their own … Continue reading SharePoint: Prevent Folder Move
SharePoint Online: Understanding | Document Sets
Likely an oversimplification, but document sets are essentially collections of files and folders bundled together with shared metadata. A holdover from earlier versions of SharePoint Server, document sets aren't enabled by default in SharePoint Online [SPO], but can be enabled as a feature at the site collection level: Figure 1 - SharePoint Online site collection … Continue reading SharePoint Online: Understanding | Document Sets
SharePoint: Modern Site Architecture (Hub v. Sub)
Microsoft is encouraging organizations to embrace Modern SharePoint. With this nudging, creating sub-sites is still supported, but largely frowned upon. Though Classic SharePoint welcomes sub-sites. Modern SharePoint, not so much. Instead, Microsoft now recommends creating all sites as their own site collection, then associating sites using hub linkage... To better conceptualize the hub idea, consider … Continue reading SharePoint: Modern Site Architecture (Hub v. Sub)
SharePoint: List Views (CAML Queries)
Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) is a schema used in SharePoint to query list data. Viewing, sorting, and grouping columns, that's straight-forward. One or two filter conditions, also straight-forward. But when three or more conditions are applied, the logic may get a bit murky. Because the UI hasn't really changed over the years, it still … Continue reading SharePoint: List Views (CAML Queries)
SharePoint Server: Purge Cached Access
As content is migrated from [SharePoint Server] to [SharePoint Online], the sites are often moved incrementally. But post-migration, not everyone uses their new links day-one. There are enough people still trying to use their old SPS bookmarks, so I needed to purge legacy site access. This includes the site collection user cache and forces everyone … Continue reading SharePoint Server: Purge Cached Access
Training: SharePoint Online – Site Templates
[SharePoint Online] empowers teamwork with team sites. These "dynamic and productive" team sites are created using prebuilt templates to scaffold workspaces for: Projects,Departments,Divisions,etc. Classic vs. Modern For those coming from the [SharePoint Server] world, SPO has some noticeable differences. First at bat, the site template options are limited. SPS offered several different site templates for … Continue reading Training: SharePoint Online – Site Templates
Training: SharePoint – 5000 Item Limit Threshold
### What The 5,000 items list view threshold is a limit on the number of items displayed in a single SharePoint view. This is NOT a limit on how many total items a list or library can hold. ### Why This is a performance restriction. Larger database queries require more resources and more processing. This … Continue reading Training: SharePoint – 5000 Item Limit Threshold
SharePoint Sites: Naming Conventions
Because of a recent initiative, I need to rename my Showcase site to Product Showcase. SharePoint (SP) site names are dynamic so I can update this through the UI... The change is simple and the update is immediate. But my site URL doesn't reflect this change. Why? Because site URLs are static... ex., SharePoint Online … Continue reading SharePoint Sites: Naming Conventions
SPList: Simple Column Formatting
SharePoint is good platform to build on, but it continues to impress me what can be done with minimal effort. My background is programming and programmers like to build custom solutions. However, Microsoft has built so much into SharePoint that I haven't had to build any large custom solutions for quite some time. Not that … Continue reading SPList: Simple Column Formatting
console.log('Charles'); 