Wondering mind

The thoughts of a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on anything and everything SharePoint.

O365 Tidbits - SharePoint Swoop an Adventure in SPO/Flow/PowerApps

Hello All, Last week the product group released a series of videos, that I think could be very...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/24/2018

O365 Groups Tidbit - Create/Delete/Upgrade O365 Groups

Hello All, As O365 Groups become more important in managing SharePoint I thought I would provide you...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/22/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint Maintenance window

Hello All, Recently had to work with this class for a customer and thought that it is an amazing way...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/15/2018

SPO Tidbit - Updated sharing feature coming to iOS and Android

Hello All, Recently we have had several announcements like new sharing features to OneDrive and...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/11/2018

How to setup a template for Site Collection creation

Hello All, Did this research for a customer and wanted to put it here for you and myself... As we...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/08/2018

SPO Tidbit - Creating your intranet with hub sites

Hello All, Since SharePoint hub sites are now being rolled out and you should be seeing them, I...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/08/2018

Teams Tidbit - Data governance and Event Based retention

Hello All, I wanted to let you know about this feature that seems like an exciting change in Teams....

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/03/2018

SPO Tidbit - Changing How Document ID URLs are Retrieved in Document Libraries

Hello All, This message just came across my inbox and I think you will find it very interesting…....

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/02/2018

O365 Tidbit - Deprecation of Machine Translation and Site Manager

Hello All, Wanted to make sure you were aware of this change that affects only SPO. Machine...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/01/2018

Teams Tidbit - Where is my data stored

Hello All My customer had a question about where do the messages between users get stored so that...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/26/2018

SPO Tidbit - Flow and PowerApps articles

Hello All, While doing some research I ended up flipping thru a lot of articles and other resources...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/24/2018

SPO Tidbit - Modern Site Analytics and Usage improvements

Hello All, We will be getting a cool update to SPO that I thought would be of interest to you, this...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/20/2018

SharePoint Workflow settings

Hello All, Customer recently asked me about this and since i had to go hunting I figured i would...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/19/2018

SPO Tidbit - Multi-Geo is here

Hello All, Just had this note hit my inbox and thought I would share it with you. Multi-geo is a new...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/18/2018

SPO Tidbit - Moving files easily in O365, SPO, and OneDrive

Hello All, Wanted to update you on a great feature that is being rolled out in O365, soon you will...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/17/2018

Hello All, As you start to work with Search you will notice that it’s architecture has not been...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/12/2018

SPO Tidbit - Custom Metadata Integration with Modern SharePoint Online Pages

Hello All, A message recently went out outlining this, I wanted to make sure you were aware as it is...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/11/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - Optimizing SQL for SharePoint on-prem

Hello All, First of all, these steps will be true for both SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 unless...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/10/2018

SPO Tidbit - OneDrive for business Shared by Me feature

Hello All, Thought I would bring your attention to this feature in the OD4B service, the Shared by...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/05/2018

O365 Tidbit - Script to collect license info

Hello All, Recently I had a customer who had questions about what licenses their users had assigned...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/03/2018

Setting Access Request for SharePoint 2013/2016

Hey Guys, Took a quick look and figured how to set Access Request for all Site Collections, the...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/29/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - Patching SharePoint 2013

Hello All, First to start, you will have the following steps:  Apply binary to all Servers Run...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/27/2018

Manipulating webparts using PowerShell

Hello All, One of my customers is making some changes to there Sites and part of that is to set the...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/22/2018

O365 Tidbit - How can MyAnalytics help you

Hello All, I was looking thru the O365 Roadmap to understand one of the updates and noticed that...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/20/2018

Opening Visio files from SharePoint 2013/2016/SPO

Hello All, Not sure if your aware but Visio files are considered restricted and you are forced to...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/15/2018

SPO Tidbit - Check out the Sites Web Part

Hello, All To go along with the announcement for the Hub Sites: Sites webpart allows you to...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/14/2018

SPO Tidbit - Hub Sites are almost here

Hello All, This just passed thru my inbox so I thought I would pass it along. New feature:...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/14/2018

SPO Tidbit - New features to support SharePoint Framework

Hello All, Wanted to bring to your attention the release of further support for the SharePoint...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/13/2018

SPO Tidbit - Change to external users in O365

Hello All, Microsoft is updating the behavior and governance of access by external users in...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/08/2018

SPO Tidbit - Search experience

Hello All, This passed across my inbox and I thought it would be great for you to have as it...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/02/2018

SPO Tidbit - Compliance Manager

Hello All,  This came thru my inbox so I thought I would share it with you Compliance Manager helps...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 02/20/2018

Reminder about SQL Aliases

Hello All, Recently I was working with a customer as they migrated between SQL servers, and was...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/25/2018

Unable to delete file in SharePoint Online

Hello All, Recently I had a customer contact me with an issue in one of their document libraries,...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/23/2018

SPO Tidbit - Create and use Custom Site Designs

Hello All, Moving forward with the new sites in SharePoint Online, the way we customize that site...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/18/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint Migration Tool

Hello All, As you plan your migration from your on-prem SharePoint farm to SharePoint online, I...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/15/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool

Hello,  As you plan your migration to the cloud I think it will help you to understand your on-prem...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/12/2018

Azure Tidbit - Using Azure Information Protection in the Enterprise

Hello All, Saw this video from Ignite and thought I would do a dive on Azure Information Protection...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/11/2018

PowerBi Tidbit - Using PowerBi on-prem

Hello All, As you may or may not know the cloud has had PowerBi for a while now and it has been a...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/10/2018

SPO Tidbit - Predictive Indexing and what does that mean

Hello All, This feature has been rolled out to all production tenants, on the road map the feature...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/09/2018

SPO Tidbits - Responsive design and SPO

Hello All, While presenting an End user workshop I was asked about Responsive Design and SharePoint...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/08/2018

Happy New Year

Hope the best to you and your families Pax

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/01/2018

Merry Christmas and happy holidays

No matter what you celebrate I hope this is a joyous season for you, spent with friends and family....

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/24/2017

Azure Tidbit - Information dump on Flow and PowerApps

Hello All, As mentioned the integration for Flow and PowerApps is coming to SPO shortly, so here is...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/18/2017

SPO Tidbit - Yammer app coming to SPO

Hello All, This crossed my lap and I thought it was kind of awesome but we will be releasing a Web...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/18/2017

O365 Tidbit - Azure On-premises Data gateway

Hello All, The Azure On-premises Data Gateway is designed to facilitate secure communication between...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/14/2017

O365 Tidbit - Antivirus protection for SPO and ODfB

Hello All, Another discussion crossed my inbox that I thought I would share. Files are scanned for...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/12/2017

O365 Tidbit - Reminder on restore capabilities for EXO, SPO and ODfB

Hello All, This came into my inbox as a larger discussion so I thought I would compile this...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/07/2017

Playing with Cortana on Invoke

Hello All, I was very surprised and excited to discover that Microsoft has teamed up with Harman...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/06/2017

O365 Tidbit - What office client are you using

Hello All, A customer of mine just got hit by this so I figured I would make sure you saw it again...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/05/2017

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