For a thorough treatment on this subject, I recommend this article from the Global SharePoint Diary website ..read more

Fortunately for me, I’ve switched over to SharePoint Online.  However, for those admins who are running SharePoint Server 2019 on-premise, the recently released May 2022 Cumulative Update (CU) may make your entire left-hand navigation disappear!  Thankfully, Stefan Goßner at Microsoft has posted : when installing SharePoint Server patches,  you’ll want to install both the language-dependent and the language-independent fixes, then run PSCONFIG ..read more

However, Microsoft advises against using File Explorer in favor of the Sync feature.  and then scroll down to the section heading “What’s the difference between Sync and View in File Explorer?” for a full explanation of this modern, recommended feature ..read more

For SharePoint-specific migrations, they offer a page which goes into more detail: .  This could be the tool that saves your job or your sanity ..read more

So if you’ve got sites that have folder sprawl, will give your users a little help figuring out how many sub-folders are beneath your top-level folders, and how many items they contain.  It’s a start.  And it’s helpful. : if your organization manually provisions sites for users, delete the default “Documents” document library and during the provisioning process, ask your users to think about how many document libraries they’ll probably need going forward.  Get them to provide meaningful document library names.  And then create them for them ..read more

Define the scope for this label So the second option is interesting.  I did not realize that one could apply a sensitivity label to an entire site before this.  I had never noticed.  But under the section “ ” in Microsoft Purview (formerly Compliance Center) after you have chosen to “ ” sure enough, there is an option to define the scope to “Groups & sites”.   So this is helpful indeed and you don’t have to be a Global Admin to do it ..read more

Define the scope for this label So the second option is interesting.  I did not realize that one could apply a sensitivity label to an entire site before this.  I had never noticed.  But under the section “ ” in Microsoft Purview (formerly Compliance Center) after you have chosen to “ ” sure enough, there is an option to define the scope to “Groups & sites”.   So this is helpful indeed and you don’t have to be a Global Admin to do it ..read more

It is interesting to note that it is not (yet?) available on Classic sites and customization is limited to the global navigation pane ..read more

Many thanks to my colleague who figured this out and also contributed to the content of this article. it gives a pop up for your login info and lets you access the system, particularly if you are using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA). is similar, but you just take out the altogether and it will do the same ..read more

So on a call with Microsoft we were referred to the below article by Josh Roark, Sr. Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft.  I hope it helps you as much as it did us ..read more