Sunday, July 13, 2025

SharePoint - Anonymous user

The following is a SharePoint dictionary word of the day:

Anonymous user

A user who doesn’t present any credentials when identifying themselves. The process for governing an anonymous user can be different based on the authentication protocol utilized.


Monday, July 7, 2025

Top 5 Steps for SharePoint Project Success

The following are the top 5 aspects one needs to leverage in a SharePoint project:

1) Project conception - have a project charter and initiation.

2) Project definition and planning - have a scope, budget, work breakdown schedule, communication plan and risk management plan.

3) Project launch or execution - have a status and tracking mechanism in place.

4) Project performance and control - have the project objectives, quality deliverables and effort and cost tracking.

5) Project close - have a post project report/discussion.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

SharePoint - Anonymous authentication

The following is a SharePoint Dictionary word of the day:

Anonymous authentication

An authentication method in which neither party authenticates the identity of the other participant.

Monday, June 23, 2025

SharePoint - Anchor Crawl

The following is a SharePoint Dictionary word of the day:

'Anchor crawl

The process of adding anchor text that is in links between items to the full-text index catalog.


Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Fab 5 of M365 Groups

M365 groups are to me the cornerstone of security in the M365 environment.

As such here is a brief overview of what I refer to as the fab 5 of M365 groups:

Distribution group - Utilized for sending notifications to a group of people.

Mail-enabled security group - Has the ability to send e-mail to a group.

Microsoft 365 group - Utilized for collaboration. Includes a group e-mail and shared workspaces.

Security group - Utilized for granting access to resources and for managing devices.

Shared mailbox - Utilized when multiple users need to access the same mailbox, such as a contact us or support e-mail address.


Monday, June 16, 2025

7 Core Aspects for a SharePoint Lead

A SharePoint lead needs to demonstrate the following key 7 aspects:

1) Collaboration - one needs to understand the SharePoint technologies in order to collaborate.

2) Advocacy - one needs to be a good SharePoint advocate for the technology.

3) Ethics - one needs to understand ethical issues and aspects of SharePoint.

4) Roadmap strategies - one need to keep up and be aware to implement or turn off SharePoint roadmap aspects.

5) Financial management - one need to be able to use the billing tools within M365 SharePoint to keep the environment licensed and functional as needed.

6) Educational policies and development - one needs to have the proper SharePoint educational aspects available to end users.

7) Applicable laws - one needs to be able to handle local, state and country laws related to SharePoint and one's business as needed/applicable.


Monday, June 9, 2025

SharePoint - Anchor content source

The following is a SharePoint Dictionary word of the day:

Anchor content source

A content source that is utilized to import the anchor text from links amongst elements into a full-text index collection.