On your SharePoint project homepage or on sub-pages, you placed hyperlinks to documents which are located in different document libraries. Now it can happen that documents are moved to other libraries on your site or are renamed. If someone wants now to access this document via the respective hyperlink, they receive an error message. I’ll […]
In many companies SharePoint and often Confluence are in use. They are probably the most used software tools in projects. One question I often hear is: Which is the better tool for projects and to support project management, Confluence or SharePoint? There is no clear answer to this from my point of view. It all […]
If you have read my article SharePoint Groups and Permissions Explained, then you already know relatively well about SharePoint Groups and Permissions but also their difference to Microsoft 365 Groups. In this article, you will learn how to use them effectively and specifically. But you will also learn what your responsibility is as a site […]
SharePoint Groups and Permissions are a big challenge for new site owners in projects. I felt the same way many years ago. SharePoint Groups and Permission are a very powerful tool to define who can access your Project Site and what they can do there. As a SharePoint Admin of your project, you should understand […]
A project generates a lot of data and lives from data. Without data and communication, projects and our economy would not be possible. There is a lot of data on your SharePoint site, such as specifications, contracts, quotes, business cases, etc. Metadata is generated automatically by your SharePoint site, on the other hand some is […]
SharePoint is one of the most used tools in projects and supports many project management activities. As a Project Management Officer, I oversee large project SharePoint sites and get questions about specific SharePoint topics all the time. Frequently, questions come in where check-out/check-in is the root cause of problems, because this functionality is not always […]
Collaboration is a must in projects and not seldom several project team members need to work on the same document at the same time to finalize it as soon as possible, e.g., for a steering committee presentation. One of the great capabilities of Office 365 and SharePoint is the ability for multiple users to work on […]
SharePoint has been an indispensable tool in project work for over ten years now and supports many project management activities. Microsoft Teams was launched in 2017 as a competitor to other successful collaboration products like Asana, Slack or Zoom and has since then successfully established itself—especially in project teams. What many don’t know is that […]
During our work in business, we are constantly looking for information. This is also the case with projects. Projects are communication and information driven and are supported in most companies nowadays by SharePoint Online. Searching for information in SharePoint was in the past often not so successful.In recent years, SharePoint’s search engine has improved tremendously. […]
Colleagues in our company often ask me why I recommend using metadata over managing folders and sub-folders in a SharePoint document library. I have been using SharePoint for many years now in projects and programs and for this question I have a good response. This article answers this question and offers you an overview of […]