Search
We held a special power hour this week, detailing and demonstrating a new, FREE download. This is a solution developed and just rolled out by Microsoft. It is a Power App that involves SharePoint, Teams, and Power Automate, which is used for company communication during the global COVID-19 crisis. To learn more, check out my demo of the Crisis Communication
Read more
Hopefully this is a short term workaround. If you watched my SharePoint Power Hour today, you may have noticed that I was surprised when the DataSourceInfo function did not give me accurate permission information about the currently logged in user’s access to a certain list in SharePoint. I did demonstrate a couple of other things, like how to determine if
Read more
This article is about SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows, and SharePoint Online (Office 365) external users. In building a solution for a customer, where there’s a SharePoint site / O365 Group with external users, and tasks needing to be assigned to them, this is the problem I noticed. When you invite an external user to SharePoint, they receive an invitation email.
Read more
Information Rights Management is being rolled out to Office 365 right now. I read about it here, and decided to go into my tenant and try it out. This is very exciting! What is Information Rights Management? The quick explanation is that it lets you have tighter control over what happens to your files (mostly just MS Office files) once
Read more
Jennifer Mason and I created a series of videos for beginners, to explain permissions in SharePoint. Now that the series is complete, here are all of the links to our posts. Understanding Permissions in Office 365: The Basics – by Jennifer Video 1: An Overview Of Permissions Video 2: Creating New Users And Granting Them Access Video 3: Introduction To
Read more
How would you like to have a nice pretty web part on the home page of each of your sites, showing a dynamic list of the people who are in the owners group for that site? This is a great idea, because it gives the site users a quick reference list so that they know who to contact if they
Read more
In SharePoint and SharePoint Online with Office 365, permissions have always been one of the major pain points when it comes to end users, training and adoption. The user interface on the permissions screens, and the complexity revolving around inheriting or breaking permissions, are in many cases quite challenging to grasp. This post applies to all versions of SharePoint. I
Read more