Category: Best Practices

If you’re a site owner, it’s a good idea to create a governance model, often referred to as ‘Best Practices’ – that is, a model to address your site’s policies, processes, roles, and responsibilities. Naturally, commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective, are considered the best to follow.

As Best Practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives, usually it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means.

Therefore, this category is full of useful tips, practical examples and advise. With How To videos, eBooks, Webinars, Blogs to help you learn and become more productive in implementing Best Practices.

Sideloading SharePoint Add-Ins
Sideloading SharePoint Add-Ins
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If you are a SharePoint Add-in or App developer, you could have probably come through this issue atleast once.
“Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site.”

Sideloading is a technique that most of the app vendors allow in order to test or debug the apps. In other words, it means deploying an app with a development tool rather than going through the correct secure procedure. Sideloading is available with all the smartphone platforms including Android.

Training SharePoint End Users Is A Waste Of Time
Training SharePoint End Users Is A Waste Of Time
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Many years ago, I came to the conclusion that thoroughly training end users on SharePoint is a waste of time for employees and trainers. I don’t mean to say that SharePoint trainers are bad people or that all training programs are useless. It’s just that comprehensive SharePoint training, crammed into a 1/2 day or five days is by and large wasteful. This might sound controversial, but this is the conclusion I have come to after many years of unsuccessful attempts by myself and other Microsoft MVP trainers like me.

Automatic Index Management in SharePoint 2016
Automatic Index Management in SharePoint 2016
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5,000 is a familiar number for anyone who had more than 5,000 records in a SharePoint list. List View threshold is something that many of us have faced and wanted to get rid of it by expanding. But then again we think about the best practices and the good it does. So, we often end up not increasing it, but creating some indexes on the columns. The problem is many of us did not know this can be done. Even I did not in the beginning. I am sure many of us still do not know.

MinRole in SharePoint 2016
MinRole in SharePoint 2016
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We all have to make some tough decisions when making larger SharePoint environments. One of the toughest is which SharePoint services shall be running on which server. We would like our servers to be busy at same levels, but it is difficult to find the correct formula most of the times. Microsoft has been running SharePoint on online servers for a few years so far and with currently over 20,000 databases over 19 databases across the world, its unlikely there is anyone better who knows which services work well together other than Microsoft.

Wave Goodbye to Power BI in Office 365, We Won’t Miss You
Wave Goodbye to Power BI in Office 365, We Won’t Miss You
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As it happens with Microsoft products, there are two competing versions of the same thing and eventually one gets phased out. Now it’s Power BI for Office 365’s turn. It had a good run, but Microsoft is finally killing off the initial iteration of Power BI to let its new service move in and run the show. I’ve been wondering when this would happen for quite a while now, and its finally happened. Honestly I believe it’s for the better, but there are a few things that still haven’t come to fruition. In your Office 365 Message Center, you might have seen this message on the right.

Feel Proud of Your Company! Switch to E-Signatures!
Feel Proud of Your Company! Switch to E-Signatures!
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In a column for Inc magazine, Geoffrey James lists ten things employees most want (other than a raise). Number 1 on his list: Employees want to feel proud of their company.

There are many ways for your company or organization to provide you with a sense of pride in its character, mission, market position, work environment, or other leadership traits.

Gene creates an Office Add-in during live Hackathon at #ESPC15
Gene creates an Office Add-in during live Hackathon at #ESPC15
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At the end of the day there was a hackathon organized by Jeremy Thake from the Office team at Microsoft. We were able to create an Office Add-In from scratch with some help from guys from the product team in Redmond. This was a cool experience and I had to chance to meet some interesting guys. I teamed up with Nick Harvey from London, UK and created an add-in for outlook.