Wondering mind

The thoughts of a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on anything and everything SharePoint.

SPO Tidbits - Check out the SharePoint starter kit

Hello All, Following the post Custom learning for Office 365 I thought I would bring to you another...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/16/2019

Flow Tidbits - What is the max limit of Flow creation

Hello All, Here are some quick rule to explain it very clearly on how the limits work: If creating...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/09/2019

O365 Tidbits - Custom learning for Office 365

Hello All, I have been waiting for ages to find this resource and I’m super excited to now provide...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 04/02/2019

Flow Tidbit - Check out the new Microsoft Graph Security API connector

Hello All, If you receive Microsoft Flow Team Newsletter (See latest here) you may have noticed that...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/26/2019

Governance Tidbit - Be the change you want to see

Hello All, Was working on a governance project ands felt like I should share this gem. Addressing...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/25/2019

Hello All, Built this list for a customer after having a discussion around management of PowerApps...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/18/2019

Hello All, I had a discussion with a customer today about implementing OD4B and then put together...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 03/11/2019

Stream Tidbit - Self-service Office 365 Video migration to Microsoft Stream

Hello All, I’m very excited to let you know that starting Q1 2019 we will be rolling out the upgrade...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/24/2019

SharePoint Tidbit - The train rolls forward on the Modern experience

Hello All, Recently this article was highlighted in one of our Yammer groups and I think it’s...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/17/2019

Stream Tidbit - Microsoft Stream intelligence capabilities

Hello All, This awesome feature came up today in a conversation, and while the functionality of face...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/10/2019

SharePoint Tidbit - Disabling SMB1 so that you can sleep better at night

Hello All, Recently I performed a RaaS with a customer and it provided a new recommendation that I...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/20/2018

SPO Tidbit - Securing the Site Collection

Hello All, I will assume that you have set the permissions on your Site Collections correctly, but...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/20/2018

Flow Tidbit - What is the flow checker and more

Hello All, There have been several awesome news items recently and I just wanted to pick out these....

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/13/2018

SPO Tidbit - Updates coming to Admin center

Hello All, Very soon you could see some updates rolling in that update your Admin center but only if...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/08/2018

Planner Tidbit - What is going on with Planner and Project online

Hello All, Recently had some questions about Project and Planner so thought I would provide some...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/06/2018

M365 Tidbit - Users will start to receive product training emails

Hello All, Found this in Teams and thought you would be interested in knowing.  A few days ago a...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/02/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - PowerApps WebPart currently being rolled out

Hello All, I wanted to let you know that currently the Microsoft 365 Team is rolling out the...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/01/2018

Graph Tidbit - Announcing “30 Days of Microsoft Graph” Blog Series

Hello All, Another fantastic tidbit that came flying thru my inbox and I wanted to send it out to...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/31/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint 2019 has hit General Availability

Hello All, I’m really excited to announce that SharePoint Server 2019 hit GA and you can now...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/30/2018

SPO Tidbit - Search privacy update coming to your tenant soon

Hello All, A new Message Center Post has been published announcing the roll out of a change that...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/26/2018

Turn off SharePoint Home and the Discover view in OneDrive for Business

Hello All, If your like my customers as you start using SPO for the first time, you maybe have...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/16/2018

SharePoint Tidbits - What SharePoint 2016 BI features do I get without SQL 2016

Hello All, Let’s start by discussing what the modern BI stack looks like in SharePoint 2016, it has...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/09/2018

PowerApps Tidbit - PowerApps templates and how they can help you speed up deployment

Hello All, Hopefully by now you know the power of using PowerApps for building solutions for your...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/02/2018

O365 Groups tidbit - Using PowerShell to manage groups

Hello All, I have written before about groups and how they function in Office 365, so I thought now...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/27/2018

O365 Tidbit - Working with CISO and securing

Hello All, As you dive further into your O365 tenant and look to start rolling out the services you...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/18/2018

O365 Groups Tidbit - Improving permissions when dealing with O365 Groups

Hello All, You should see in the next few months this feature rolling out to your Tenants, the...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/13/2018

Flow Tidbit - Playing with 'Email me a weekly summary of Office 365 Message Center notices'

Hello All, You gotta love the Flow blog and more importantly the flow of the week.  This week they...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/11/2018

SPO Tidbit - Getting to know conditional access and SharePoint

Hello All, The cloud has forced us to rethink security as corporate boundaries have changed, no...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/10/2018

Continuous delivery in DevOps

Hello All, Was part of a great discussion this week on Continuous Delivery and wanted to share some...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/04/2018

Flow Tidbit - Check out the flow of the week

Hello All, I don’t know if you have been checking out this blog but I find it to be full of great...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/01/2018

SharePoint 2016 and dealing with Gatherer logs in the wrong place

Hello All, Recently had to work with my customer to resolve an issue where the C: drive was filling...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/30/2018

O365 Tidbit - Discovering O365 Security best practices

Hello All, I was reading about this tool during an internal discussion on security and thought you...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/28/2018

Hello All, Continuing to look at Compliance and O365 Groups I wanted to look at the Audit log search...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/23/2018

O365 Tidbit - Reporting on O365....that was easy

Hello All, We all know how important it is to report on our Tenants and the resources within those...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/21/2018

What's going on with Auditing in O365

Hello All, Recently was working with a customer and looking at Audit data, it surprised me when I...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/17/2018

Custom maintenance window in SharePoint

Hello All, Recently I worked with one of my customers on deciding how to streamline end user...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/16/2018

Script to help with Site Deletion feature

Hello All, I'm sure many of you know about the Site Deletion feature, if you don't please read...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/09/2018

SPO Tidbit - Released SMPT PowerShell

Hello All,  I have previously mentioned the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) and it’s capabilities,...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/07/2018

SPO Tidbit - What is Known Folder Move and how can I use it?

Hello All, I just got news about this great feature being enabled in all tenants within the next few...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/17/2018

SPO Tidbit - SharePoint Online Page diagnostics

Hello All, I’ve been asked on multiple occasions if we have any tools to insure that best practices...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/10/2018

SPO Tidbit - Modern Site Analytics and Usage get an update

Hello All, In case you haven’t noticed we have been making a change to your modern sites and that...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/05/2018

O365 Groups Tidbit - Compliance in O365 Groups (Retention policies)

Hello All, I think we can all agree that compliance in any technology is important in todays world,...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/26/2018

Flow Tidbit - Error detail analytics

Hello All,  Another update for flows recently is that we are trying to help you troubleshoot them...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/19/2018

Flow Tidbit - New connectors and SharePoint capabilities

Hello All, Just keeping you in the loop , Microsoft recently released several new connectors:  Azure...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/15/2018

Teams Tidbit - Controlling Teams provisioning

Hello All, Going thru all my sticky notes I saw this was a topic of interest to you so I thought I...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/14/2018

O365 Groups Tidbit - Expiration Policy for O365 Groups

Hello All, Following up on my last O365 Groups post (See this article) I thought I would go further...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/12/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - Governance in the SharePoint Service

Hello, I figured I would bring some of the information to you along with some suggestions. My...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/07/2018

SharePoint Tidbit - Looking at Request management

Hello All, Thought it was time to provide you with more in-depth information as it might be a good...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/31/2018

O365 Tidbit - Looking at Microsoft connections

Hello All, Got this great info into my inbox and thought I would pass it along to you… Connections...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/29/2018

SPO Tidbit - Change to Document Library versioning

Hello All, This was announced on Monday and I wanted to make sure you saw it as users may have...

Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/25/2018

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