Last night my social media channels were jammed with posts related to the CrowdStrike incident. In an unfortunate turn of events, an update pushed out to millions of Windows devices worldwide cause the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, taking countless systems offline. Watching an event of this type unfold is a great lesson for us ..read more

SharePoint page performance can be affected by various factors, such as page elements, network, and device used. The SharePoint Site Performance tool helps diagnose issues and suggests improvements. Common causes of slow performance include large images, webparts searching extensive data, and custom JavaScript code. Testing a minimal page can help determine if the issue is page-specific or related to the environment. Access recent performance data by adding "_layouts/15/score.aspx" to the page URL ..read more

I was thrown an interesting challenge recently. Take a large set of documents from Azure Blob Storage and move them into a SharePoint Library. I needed to move a large number of documents and tag them with metadata as part of the migration. This is a good job for PowerShell. I wrote a script that ..read more

PnP PowerShell provides a comprehensive set of PowerShell commands to help manage SharePoint Online. Recently I needed to remap a lot of content from an old library structure into a new structure as part of a SharePoint modernisation project. Using a migration tool would have required a lot of labour intensive content remapping, so a ..read more

As time passes, we collect ever increasing volumes of content. At the same time our understanding of the content we have decreases as people come and go from our organisation, projects are completed, activities and focus change etc. This can result in the need to purchase more storage capacity in Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 Archive ..read more

Configuring default metadata on document libraries helps ensure content is tagged with minimal user action required. There are many use cases, such as tagging project codes, departments, locations and document types. Default metadata can be configured on both metadata columns and folders within a library, allowing you to mix defaults that apply to all documents ..read more

Using Copilot Studio you can create a Copilot for your Intranet (or other SharePoint sites) using your SharePoint content as a data source. The Copilot can use Word documents, PDF files, PowerPoint files and Modern Pages, from a list of SharePoint sites specified in the content source list. In addition to SharePoint, the Custom Copilot can also be accessed from Microsoft Teams, and websites. Before ..read more

Do you get a lot of request for New Users? Using out of the box features of Microsoft 365 you can create a simple process to request and automatically create a new user. In this video I demonstrate the features including adding the user to a Microsoft 365 Group. Here are the details of the Workflow shown in the video Generate Password This example generates ..read more

I have spent this week attending the Microsoft MVP Summit at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. It is the 4th time I have made the long journey from New Zealand, and I felt like a seasoned attendee until I arrived on campus and then I had those same feelings I had the very first time I visited. There were several things that made my experience ..read more

The New Zealand Digital Workplace Conference (DWCNZ) was held in Christchurch for the first time on the 27th and 28th of February 2024. More than 30 speakers from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States spoke on a wide range of topics and presented case studies. The conference was held at Te Pae, our fabulous new convention centre. This fantastic venue is ..read more