office365

A 9-post collection


Office 365 SharePoint Hub Sites - What's Old is New

Microsoft recently began rolling out the new SharePoint hub sites [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-hub-sites-new-in-Office-365/ba-p/109547] to Targeted Office 365 tenants. I took some time to look at hub sites, and wanted to capture some notes and thoughts about what I think is an exciting new feature. This is not meant to be an exhaustive review, there are many articles that offer deeper reviews. After poking around into the configuration and integration point...


How To Enable External Sharing for Office 365 Group Site Collections

;tl;dr A recent attempt to share a site collection provisioned by the new "Create Site" link in SharePoint Online revealed that in order to share the site collection with external users you must change the sites "SharingPolicy" property from the default ExistingExternalUserSharingOnly to ExternalUserSharingOnly to enable new external user invitations. This must be done with the Set-SPOSite PowerShell Cmdlet [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161394.aspx] The Back Story I recently ha...


Thoughts From Microsoft Ignite 2016

Thoughts After Microsoft Ignite 2016 Last week I attended Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta (Sept. 26-30, 2016). Aside from making my normal commute even worse (I am from Atlanta), this conference was incredible. It's been a while since I attended a Microsoft conference and I forgot just how much there is to absorb and attend at a conference this size. Since the conference covers more than just development topics (taking the place of TechEd, the SharePoint conference and others, this conference packe...