A Knowledge Management Zealot Speaks Out
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New Microsoft Lists Forms Experience

I think this is going to really boost how fast we can build data collection for lists with no dev at all: Collect information like a pro New Microsoft Lists forms experience in Microsoft 365 Until this rolls out, we have had several approaches we could use (and there may be others): Out of the box list forms Enhanced list forms...

Thu Mar 21, 2024 00:03
Microsoft and Knowledge Management

Knowledge management (KM) is hard. This has been proven to me many times over the last 30 or so years I’ve been paying attention to the concepts. With the announcement of the abrupt retirement of Viva Topics as of February 22, 2025, I’ve been thinking about the history of KM solutions from Microsoft and where they have all gone. But first,...

Thu Feb 29, 2024 19:41
SharePoint Site Swap Fails – But a Fallback Position

When we build a new Home Site in a client tenant, usually for a new Intranet, we generally build that new site off in a corner, so it’s not exposed or in the way while we build it. This process can take a few weeks, months or even longer, and while we’re working on things, we want to leave the existing sites rerunning as they are. Once the new site...

Fri Jan 26, 2024 21:38
SharePoint Team Site Home Pages Get New Names – For Some Reason

Today I noticed something that threw me for a loop. I created a garden variety Team Site and saw that the home page was named CollabHome.aspx. Home pages have been named Home.aspx in SharePoint forever. I did some searching and came up with nothing for “CollabHome.aspx”. One would thing there would be something documented about a change like...

Sat Nov 4, 2023 03:41
Where’s My SharePoint Site? Ask the `AAD to SharePoint Sync` User

Today one of my clients had a problem. One of her SharePoint sites was missing. She found it in Deleted sites in the SharePoint Admin Center. Restoring the site from the Deleted sites is an easy fix, of course: she had already done that on her own. But none of the Site Owners or Site Members could access the site. This was why she had pinged me. ...

Fri Oct 27, 2023 23:20
Using Content Types in SharePoint with Search-Driven User Interfaces

Content Types are a fundamental building block in SharePoint. Every object you upload or create in a SharePoint list or library gets a Content Type assigned to it, whether you realize it or not. If you create an item in a list, by default, it gets the Item Content Type. If you upload a file to a library, it gets the Document Content Type. (Sure, there...

Tue Oct 17, 2023 23:05

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