How to Add Users to a SharePoint Group

How to Add Users to a SharePoint GroupThis blog post explains how to add users to a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide. You can find step-by-step instructions for both SharePoint online and on-premises versions of SharePoint below.SharePoint Online 1. First, log in as an administrator and navigate to the site where the […]

How to create a SharePoint Survey in under 5 minutes

How to create a SharePoint Survey in under 5 minutes This post will discuss how to create a Survey in SharePoint using out of the box functionality and nothing else! The example we will use is to create a survey that asks employees to answer questions about their previous training in the organization.Step 1: Ensure […]

Creating a SharePoint Audience for New Employees

How to create a SharePoint Global Audience for New EmployeesAutomatically identifying a ‘new employees’ group in SharePoint can be achieved really easily using the SharePoint Global Audience function. Global Audiences can be automatically compiled based on a set of rules that you specify. The only restrictions are that this data must be captured and maintained in […]

Creating links to external content in Office365

Creating links to external content in Office365From time to time you may need to give the effect of storing documents in SharePoint Online, without them actually being stored in SharePoint Online document libraries. Maybe you have documents in external systems that you want to make available with SharePoint Online. Alternatively, you may have found an […]

How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead for SharePoint

How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead OK, so here’s the thing – you’ve created a fabulous training video and you now need to ensure that all relevant staff watch it and follow your guidance.In Office 365/ SharePoint onlineFirst, create a new video library to contain your videos. You can upload your videos directly into […]

How to add video to a SharePoint page

How to add video to a SharePoint page in under 5 minutesAdding videos to SharePoint online or Office 365 pages is quite simple and only takes a few steps.1) Create a new page to hold the videoNavigate to the site where you want to the page to be added and select the Settings Cog, then […]

5 Tips to maximize Internal Communications in SharePoint

5 tips showing how to use SharePoint for Internal CommunicationsIf you are responsible for communicating with various groups of staff in your organisation, then you need a good set of tools that allow you to do this in a very pain free manner.If you have access to SharePoint (or Office 365), then there are lots […]

How to manage third-party risk with SharePoint

How to manage third-party risk with SharePointSharePoint has long been used as a tool to collaborate and communicate with external third-parties. It’s document management tools make it particularly well suited to co-working on many types of project. It’s flexible permissions, and self contained site structure model lends itself neatly to creating easy to use project […]

Running a SharePoint software company

Running a SharePoint software companyWhen setting out on the road to develop and sell a product in SharePoint – as we were four years ago – you will more than likely have the idea that writing the code and perfecting your product is the key to success. You will probably have thoughts like “My app […]

How to use a ‘Link to a document’ in place of a real document in SharePoint.

How to use a ‘Link to a document’ in place of a real document in SharePoint.Note: The information in this post relates to on-premises SharePoint only.  If you want to see the equivalent information for SharePoint Online / Office365 / Microsoft 365, please go here.SharePoint is an amazing place to store documents and important information. SharePoint […]