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SharePoint Thing a Day – 006 – Information Architecture. Site Columns.
Site Columns Once you’ve chosen a column type, you can create that column again and again, on as many Lists and Libraries as you like. But each time you do that, you run the risk of introducing a typo...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 007 – Information Architecture. Content Types.
Content Types Content Types are like reusable data types. Rather than add Site Columns to each List and Library by hand, and either risk missing some out or adding the wrong ones, instead try creating...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 008 – Information Architecture. Metadata – Why?
Metadata – Why? I was recently asked if I could come up with a scenario where metadata would be better than folders. Here goes! Imagine I have scans of receipts as PDFs, and I want to store them per...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 009 – SharePoint Online. Modern UI.
Modern UI If you’re moving from SharePoint 2010 or 2013 on premise to SharePoint Online, or if you were an early adopter of Office 365, you might find the Modern UI of SharePoint Online and SharePoint...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 010 – SharePoint Online. Modern Customisations.
Modern Customisations If you’re new to the SharePoint Modern UI, you might think “we can’t customise this,” or that they’ve closed the door on developers and power users. While that may have seemed the...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 011 – Office 365. Don’t Fear Delve!
Don’t Fear Delve! Microsoft Delve – now called Intelligent Search and Discovery – is the Office 365 component that drives the Modern search experience in SharePoint Online. In addition to...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 012 – SharePoint Server. The basics.
The basics SharePoint and Office 365’s SharePoint Online have many differences. Today, I’m gong to walk you through the structure of a SharePoint Server – on-premise – farm. The top-most concept is the...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 013 – SharePoint Server. The basics.
The basics As we said yesterday, SharePoint and SharePoint Online have many differences. Today, it’s the turn of SharePoint Online. There is a Farm in SharePoint Online, but you never get to see it....
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 014 – Information Architecture. Dealing with Big Lists.
Dealing with Big Lists SharePoint stores your stuff in its databases. These are fast and well-designed SQL Servers. But, if you’re not careful, you can still get slow-downs with big lists and...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 015 – Information Architecture. Dealing with Really...
Dealing with Really Big Lists SharePoint Thing a Day – Lesson fifteen – Dealing with Really Big Lists. So, you’ve broken clean through the 5000 limit, you’ve added all the indices you can, and you...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 016 – Architecture. The Big Picture.
The Big Picture In the past, developing line-of-business apps with SharePoint was largely split into two camps: systems bolted together by power users using a tools like SharePoint Designer or InfoPath...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 017 – Architecture. The Big Picture or 2.
The Big Picture or 2 SharePoint is an excellent knowledge management platform to consolidate all your document needs. Especially with guidance and governance. SharePoint, and Office 365, work best when...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 018 – Information Architecture. Calculated Columns.
Calculated Columns SharePoint Lists and Libraries come alive when you add your own columns to them. You can add columns for any number or reasons… To track sales dates, part numbers, author names, due...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 019 – Development. Flows, not Workflows.
Flows, not Workflows If you are an old hand at building business processes for SharePoint, moving to Office 365, you might just reach for those trusted old tools of SharePoint Designer, or Visual...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 020 – Development. Going Serverless with Azure.
Going Serverless with Azure Modern SharePoint Online gives developers many architecture choices. For full blown SharePoint Point apps use SharePoint Framework and build server components as Azure Web...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 021 – Security. SharePoint Permissions in 60 Seconds.
SharePoint Permissions in 60 Seconds SharePoint Permissions are almost, but not quite similar to those on an NTFS file share. The big difference, is there is no “break inheritance and cascade”. Other...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 022 – Security. Don’t go Mad with it, 007.
Don’t go Mad with it, 007 In Thing a Day 21, we talked about applying Permission Levels to People and Things. (http://1jj.uk/spthing021) Every time you apply permissions to a specific item in...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 023 – SharePoint Server. Web Applications.
Web Applications Back in Thing a Day 12, (http://1jj.uk/spthing012) we learned that Web Applications are one of the basic building blocks of a SharePoint on-premise Farm. Here’s a little more detail...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 024 – SharePoint Server. Web Applications pt 2.
Web Applications pt 2 Following on from Thing a Day 23, (http://1jj.uk/spthing023) today we’ll look at Zones and Authentication Providers. A common reason to extend your Web Application into a new Zone...
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SharePoint Thing a Day – 025 – SharePoint Server. Service Applications.
Service Applications If Web Applications are about delivering Content, then Service Applications are all about doing the heavy lifting in your Farm. Service Applications are responsible for everything...
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