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The SharePoint Lookbook series of templates are a design pattern that allow you to apply pre-built templates to SharePoint sites using the SharePoint PnP provisioning service.
Recently, one of my customers asked for assistance in deploying a PnP site template to their GCC High (GCCH) Microsoft 365 environment. … [ Continue reading ]
In today’s episode of “weird ways to do things,” we’ll look at scripting synchronizing a SharePoint library with the OneDrive for Business client.
There are a few ways to skin this cat.
First, I’d recommend using Group Policy.… [ Continue reading ]
Last week, while I was working with a customer to on-board OneDrive and Teams, we started a discussion around governance. I had an older template that I had put together a few years ago for another government customer, but I decided to revisit it and update it with current controls.… [ Continue reading ]
Earlier today, I was working with a customer to begin enabling Viva Connections.
One of our prerequisites is ensuring the root site is the home site and that it is configured as a modern Communications site. For customers that provisioned their SharePoint environments several years ago but never really invested time in it, it the default SharePoint site may still be a legacy classic team site.… [ Continue reading ]
For folks who want to get started on bringing your intranet into Teams, here’s a quick take on configuring Viva Connections, including screenshots, tips, and the ever popular “what happens to the end users” question answered.
Buckle up.
Viva Connections, from our marketing material, is “a desktop and mobile experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in one place for your organization.”… [ Continue reading ]
While hammering out a script for one of my customers today, I decided that it would be a nice touch to upload a log file (that I’d handily built with this function) to their SharePoint team site.
What could go wrong?… [ Continue reading ]
Finally–we’re to the good stuff!
In the first part of this series, we talked about setting the stage with the requirements, and then went on to create the basic staging and production sites, update the retention policies to exclude the staging site, and configure the taxonomy.… [ Continue reading ]
In my previous post on building a video portal with approvals, we started the necessary steps to build an internal video portal for SharePoint online. ICYMI, the things we covered:
We’re going to continue on in this post with the site customization.… [ Continue reading ]
A few weeks ago, a customer asked me for some recommendations around building and curating a video portal for SharePoint Online content. Normally, we’d look at a Microsoft Stream-based solution, but given the upcoming changes to Stream and the customer’s requirements around content retention and approvals, I thought that maybe another avenue was more appropriate.… [ Continue reading ]
This week, I had a customer ask about generating a list of all sites a user had access to as part of their security and employee termination process. SharePoint PnP PowerShell seemed like a good place to start. But then, I decided, what if I wanted to find all the places a particular had a particular type of permission? … [ Continue reading ]