tips-and-tricks

Ownerless Microsoft 365 SharePoint Sites Q&A

Recently Microsoft announced a new feature – “Manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups and teams“. Very nice. A long awaited functionality. Question: Why it is important? Answer: Because many other “governance” activities (e.g. retention policies) rely on site/team ownership. I.e., before we notify site owner that the site is going to be deleted due to inactivity […]

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Microsoft Forms: Form Blocked due to Potential Phishing

Scenario You are seeing messages “This form can’t be distributed as it is asking for personal or sensitive information. Contact your admin for assistance. Terms of use” or “Form can no longer be accessed. This form has been flagged for potential phishing. Technical details” Cause The reason is Microsoft enabled automated machine reviews to proactively

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Enterprise Intranet Portal – Home Site and Search Scope and Relevance

Scenario Your organization use Microsoft 365. You are implementing or configuring an Intranet Portal. Search plays an important role here – you want search be relevant to the context – i.e. Official Results – if a user searches something on a company’s intranet portal – user expect “official” results, not a something from somebody’s OneDrive

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Customize the Microsoft 365 theme for your organization explained

For users You can customise (select) your Office 365 theme from almost any page (Office, Yammer, OneDrive, OneNote, Stream, Excel… nut not Teams or SharePoint) – selecting gearbox “Settings” on the top right and selecting theme. Once you changed you theme – it will change for you everywhere (except Teams). There is one theme called

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How to create a Sub-Site in SharePoint or Teams if subsites creation is disabled

NB! if you are getting error message “Sorry, something went wrong. New subsites are not available for your organization. Create a new site instead” please read the Update in the end of the article. Otherwise: Flat Structure Microsoft recommends a “flat structure”, i.e. no subsites. Instead of subsite you should have a separate site collection,

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