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SharePoint Development Services provide customized solutions to enhance collaboration, document management, and workflow automation within organizations. These services include designing, developing, and implementing SharePoint-based portals, intranets, and collaboration platforms tailored to meet business needs. They enable secure information sharing, process automation, and seamless integration with other enterprise tools, improving productivity and communication across teams.

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Top 10 Microsoft SharePoint 365 Tips and Tricks 2023!

SharePoint Online is a great tool for creating intranets, document management and integrating your Microsoft 365 apps. Like everything though, Microsoft SharePoint tips and tricks are needed if you want to get setup quickly. To build a professional intranet or DMS you will need the help of a SharePoint developer. However, there are tasks that can be handled in-house and handy SharePoint tips and tricks to help you manage SharePoint. That’s why we have put together this list of useful SharePoint 365 tips and tricks to help you out.

SharePoint 365 Tips and Tricks 1: Understand the SharePoint Site Architecture

The first and most important thing to understand with SharePoint, is the architecture. It can be quite confusing to newbie’s how everything fits together with the other Microsoft 365 applications.

Overview

At a high-level, SharePoint works with a cascading structure. SharePoint sites are the top-level containers that house all content for a specific area (e.g a department like HR). These sites can contain subsites, document libraries, lists, web parts and pages.

Subsites – are used to house subsets of data for specific areas.

Document libraries – are used to store the sites documents.

Lists – are used to store data (like an online Excel spreadsheet). An example of a list could be a HR list of employee information.

Web parts – widgets that are used for functionality that can be embedded into a page.

Pages – are used to display content and information from lists and libraries.

Flat Structure vs Subsites

In the modern world of SharePoint, we have two possible ways of structuring SharePoint sites. Flat structure (recommended) and using subsites. Back in the old days of SharePoint, people used lots of subsites, sometimes going multiple levels deep. This caused SharePoint admins a nightmare to manage, as content was not easy to move and resulted in confusing navigation. So, flat structures were introduced. Creating all sites as ‘top-level’ sites and using hubsites to group them together (I will explain hubsites a bit later).

This is one of our favourite SharePoint 365 tips and tricks. People can often slip up by not knowing the recommended approach and it can be hard to rectify once you go down this path.

SharePoint 365 Tips and Tricks 2: Team site vs Communication site

Second on our list of Microsoft SharePoint tips and tricks, is the difference between SharePoint sites. In previous versions of SharePoint there were many site templates to choose from. Now in SharePoint 365 we just have two main ones. Team sites and communications sites.

When creating a SharePoint site, we can use the team site template. They are mainly used for collaboration within a specific team, for a closed group, or limited amount of people. For example, if you work in the HR team and want a place to store and collaborate on documents for your team, this template should be chosen. Team sites, can be ‘group connected’, which bundles a SharePoint site together with other Microsoft 365 tools, like Teams, Outlook and OneNote. Or you can build a standalone Team site.

These site templates are generally used for information that will be displayed either company-wide, or to a large audience. The are most often used for intranets, to showcase information or display content in a more visually friendly way.

SharePoint 365 Tips and Tricks 3: Understanding integration between SharePoint and Teams

Understanding how SharePoint works with Microsoft Teams is very important in the modern workplace. This can sometimes be overlooked as an important tip, when describing how SharePoint works.

Teams is now a key part of many workplaces. It is used to chat with colleagues, video conferencing and collaborating on document within groups or ‘Teams’. When it comes to document collaboration, what most people aren’t aware of is that Teams is not much more than a user interface for SharePoint. When you create a new ‘team’ in Teams, this creates a new SharePoint site in the backend. All the documents you add and share within your team is stored in the SharePoint document library. For each channel you create within your team, this creates a new folder in your SharePoint document library. Which is used to categorise the content.

Lists vs Libraries

A very simple one of our Microsoft SharePoint tips and tricks to explain, but also something a lot of SharePoint newbies might not understand. What is the difference between a SharePoint list and a document library? Essentially, lists store content and libraries store files. Lists act like Excel or a database, to store and manage data. That data can then be used to develop apps, or create dashboards and reports to visualise and manage the data. Document libraries are purely containers for your document and folder structure, similar to working in file explorer on your laptop.

Using metadata to categorise your content

When setting up a new SharePoint library or list, you need to think about what metadata will be used, based on what it will be used for and structure it accordingly. If you ask any SharePoint developer for SharePoint 365 tips and tricks, this will come up, as it is a very important aspect of SharePoint.

For document libraries, there are two main ways of structuring content. Using a metadata structure, or a folder structure.

Metadata structure – the document or data is tagged with metadata, that is used to categorise the content. The metadata is filtered or searched to find the file you are looking for. For example you could have a date column and a department column and you could filter each column by the month and department you need to bring up all relevant documents. This structure is generally used for large libraries that need to be organised by multiple categorisations.

Folder structure – works just like your Windows file explorer, you use folders and subfolders to store files and organise them.

Microsoft SharePoint Tips and Tricks 6: Hub sites, home site and root site

As you start to get into the more advanced options within SharePoint, you will surely come across these three terms for sites, that seem quite similar. Let us break down what each one means.

Hub sites – as mentioned in ‘SharePoint 365 tips and tricks 1’, sites are often arranged in a ‘flat structure’ instead of using subsites to organise your content. However, the downside to this is you can end up with hundreds of rouge sites, not properly associated to similar sites. This is where hub sites come in. These are sites that are used to associate similar sites, to represent a structure.

Home site – this is generally set on the SharePoint site that is used for your intranet home page. This site tells users that this is the entry for your SharePoint intranet.

Root site – this is the default site that is created when setting up SharePoint, it cannot be deleted and is the site that is displayed under yourcomanyname.sharepoint.com

Microsoft SharePoint Tips and Tricks 7: Turbo Charging SharePoint with the Power Platform

SharePoint comes as part of the Microsoft 365 suite of products, so it integrates really well with the tools available in M365. However, there are three other Microsoft tools that can really super charge the Microsoft SharePoint functionality.

Power Automate – used for creating workflows within SharePoint and other Microsoft products. These workflows can be used to process data stored in SharePoint lists and libraries, to create anything from document approvals to complex business flows.

Power Apps – used to create mobile, desktop and tablet apps, that can be used as a custom user interface to display data from SharePoint lists and libraries.

Power BI – used to display your data into user friendly reporting dashboards to properly visualise data in graphs and charts.

Microsoft SharePoint Tips and Tricks 8: Permission structure and file sharing

SharePoint permissions can be a hard concept to grasp, as the permissions can get very granular and detailed. In short, access can be set at any level in SharePoint and cascades down from granting access to a SharePoint site, right down to granting access on individual files and folders.

Understanding your Branding Limitations

Back in previous versions of SharePoint, design and branding options were almost unlimited. You could use custom code to completely tailor your SharePoint page designs into anything you wanted. Although this is still possible in SharePoint online, one of our Microsoft SharePoint tips and tricks is not use this option. In modern SharePoint, Microsoft do not recommend doing so and there are very strict branding guidelines that should be followed. This is to avoid security risks and governance nightmares.  Companies should now use SharePoint themes and templates to apply branding.

Uitilise Co-authoring

Although technically co-authoring is a feature of the Microsoft Office tools. It is a great SharePoint 365 tip, as it can be used to its full potential within SharePoint. Co-authoring provides the ability for multiple team members to collaborate on files together at the same time. Making changes in real time and even starting chats within the document.

Getting a grasp on managing SharePoint yourself is important for all SharePoint users. However, sometimes you do need a SharePoint expert to help out with tasks.

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How Does SharePoint Tackle Employee Coordination Issues Within Enterprises?

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Quixtec LLC Offers Specialist Software Development Services in Washington

Businesses resort to software developers to create and implement specialised solutions when they require apps with certain features and capabilities. SharePoint development services are better suited to meet the needs of specific clients than generic off-the-shelf products. Although having software developed specifically for your business may sound enticing, not everyone should employ custom SharePoint development services. The variety of skills you want to display may be costly, time-consuming, and challenging.

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The Undervaluation of Kindness in the World of Work

The world of work as we know it today, is increasingly fueled by targets, deadlines and achievements. We are in the midst of what can be called the crisis of modernity. And yet we have failed to acknowledge it, let alone work towards changing it. Today, we regard the human body working in clock work to ‘achieve’ and ‘deliver’, as normal. Which brings us back to the age old debate, as old as modernity itself, what then distinguishes us from machines? Two things which make us humane, kindness, and compassion, distinguish us from machines.

About two thirds of our day is spend at our work place. While many of us love our work place, there are many who dread it. While the reasons why one many not like ones workplace could be many, one of the primary reasons is the attitude and nature of the co-workers or colleagues. Many a times, we fail to understand how being sensitive, compassionate and kind, can make a world of difference to the people we deal with in the world of work.

Kindness is genuinely undervalued in the world of work. Many managers and leaders feel that elements of kindness and compassion are in direct conflict with professionalism. One couldn’t be farther away from truth. You can be professional and yet be a kind and compassionate human being. In fact, your productivity and work life balance are influenced a great deal by how happy you are in your work place. What are the three most simple things that you can do to practice kindness at work? Here they are –

Listen

When someone speaks to you, listen. And not with your mouth so you can respond or react. Listen not just with your ears, but also with your mind. We mean listening not just in the effective communication sense, but in this case more in the humanitarian sense. Listen out of kindness. One example could be a form of miscommunication between you and your subordinate at work relating to non-achievement of established goals. The conclusion you see is that the work has not been done, however, give your colleague a chance to explain why the work hasn’t been done. Unless you listen, you will not know whether the reason was valid or not. More importantly, unless you listen, you will never know how you end up hurting someone who is already in a tough place. This has a direct effect on the productivity of the employee.

Reset when Angry

It is not easy to stay calm when things get chaotic at work. At times like that it is our individual responsibility to take charge of our own anger. Emerson said it best, “for every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” However, it is  not only your peace of mind which gets affected, but also of those around you. When you are angry, even the smallest of errors can provoke unnecessarily exaggerated reactions – which you may regret later. More importantly, your reaction might pull someone down in a way you may not even have imagined.

Every time you feel angry and find that the anger is about to be directed at someone, reset. What does reset mean? It means go away from the issue, do something that brings you back to normal, and then look at the issue again. Allow a cooling period before you react or respond. If all us could put this into practice in our daily lives, and in the world of work, it would indeed be a much better world. While we can’t claim responsibility for everyone, we can at least do so for ourselves.

Smile

You would be surprised how therapeutic a smile can feel for someone who’s having a tough day. That one tiny gesture can make a world of difference in just saying, “it’ll all be alright”, or “it is going to be alright.” They don’t lie when they say, ‘you never know how your smile can brighten up someone’s day.’

We came across a lovely post on The Balance, on “Random Acts of Kindness at Work“. And here is a list of what our favorite random acts of kindness are, from the article –

“Bring your coworker a cup of coffee when she looks like she needs a pick-me-up.

Share your mid-afternoon snack with him or if you don’t want to share, bring an extra one (everyone gets hungry a couple of hours after lunch).

Buy your coworker her favorite iced cold beverage on the first warm day of the year.

Offer to stay at work late or come in early to help a coworker with a difficult project (don’t wait to be asked).

Praise him for a job well done. No one can get too many compliments.

If you see someone is about to make a mistake, try to intervene to prevent it.

Offer unsolicited advice, especially to a new colleague who seems to be floundering.

Stop others from spreading a rumor about someone.

If you see something you know your colleague will absolutely love, a book about a topic in which he’s interested for example (nothing too extravagant), get it for him.

Include a less experienced colleague in a meeting or on a project that can help her grow.”

And these ones too!

“Invite him to join your lunch group especially if he doesn’t have many workplace friends.

Stop by her desk to say good morning.

Stop by his desk to say goodbye.

Hold the (otherwise unoccupied) elevator while your colleague runs back to her desk to get something she forgot even if you’re in a hurry to leave the building.

Praise her to the boss who may not realize how hard she’s working.

Offer to  mentor an inexperienced coworker. Many people are too shy to ask or may not even think of it.”

We are often so caught up in our busy work lives that we forget people who work tirelessly, round the clock, putting in longer hours than us and surely receiving lesser incentives than us, to make our jobs easier. Some time ago, we wrote this post on Gratitude for People Around us At Work, and this post seems like a perfect reason to revisit it again.

Would we be able to spend a day at work without coffee? Doesn’t all hell break loose when there is no Wi-Fi even for a few minutes? God help us if the IT guy chose to take a leave on the very same day! This post is about 5 such people at work, who are definitely way more important than we give them credit for! Being grateful, and being kind, go hand in hand like nothing else!

One kind act a day, sure does keeps the blues away!

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Teams to be unbundled from Microsoft 365 | EU antitrust probe

To avoid an EU antitrust fine, Microsoft has announced it will be unbundling Microsoft Teams from the Microsoft Office package of products. This is to avoid competition concerns raised by the EU competition enforcer.

Teams was added to Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) for free in 2017, along with other popular apps like SharePoint. It was added to provide chat and video conferencing for the M365 suite and has seen a huge surge in users in recent years. This surge is largely due to the covid-19 pandemic and the shift in working behaviours, that saw staff around the world adapting to hybrid working. This shift caused an influx of people using chat and video software to collaborate with colleagues. Apps like Zoom quickly benefitted from this and saw record breaking usage during the pandemic. Microsoft quickly realised this trend and ramped up it’s efforts to make Teams the go-to app for staff collaborating from home. The Teams app (which replaced Skype as the Microsoft chat and video app), was already being pushed to the forefront of the Microsoft suite by Microsoft, but this sped up the process.

This spike in users has already caused some of Microsoft’s competitors to complain to the EU regulation body, including Slack, who opened a formal complaint about three years ago. These complaints caused the European Commission to launch an investigation into how Microsoft is using products to influence users online habits. The European Commission gave a statement announcing they felt that Microsoft might be “abusing and defending its market dominance in productivity software, by restricting competition”. Microsoft has now responded with the news that it will unbundle Teams from the other Microsoft Office products, as an attempt to appear more compliant. This change will take affect from 1st October and the removal of the Teams app from the M365 bundle will affect users in the EU and Switzerland.

Also, this change may affect your company in ways you are unaware of, because of the way Teams and SharePoint are integrated with each other. If you didn’t already know, Teams and SharePoint work hand-in hand and everything that is shared within Teams, is stored in SharePoint in the background.

If you are concerned about how this change might affect your SharePoint setup. Please contact us for some free, expert advice.

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