SharePoint Advisor Blog
News, views, guides, analysis on everything Microsoft SharePoint & Microsoft 365. Tailored for UK based SMEs
Why SharePoint is worth your time
Modern business, large or small, is all about information and data. Your people need access to accurate, up to date information.A single, trusted version of every document.Somewhere staff can find company news, forms and know-how. Simple databases for lists, registers...
Microsoft SharePoint. 5 missing puzzle pieces that can drive SharePoint users crazy!
Microsoft SharePoint is a mature product. In on-premises form, it has been around since 2001 and it's been part of an online offering from Microsoft in one form or another since 2011. In addition to underpinning many of the app offerings in M365, it is a fine platform...
The state of SharePoint in 2025
Everyone tells you your business should “use SharePoint,” but what is SharePoint, how do you access it and what can it do for our business? SharePoint Online is the cloud-based file-sharing and intranet platform that’s already included with most Microsoft 365...
Improved column editing for SharePoint lists and libraries
Microsoft is improving the hyperlink, date and time and image field editors in SharePoint lists and libraries. Additionally, column creation is being updated to allow creation of all column types from within Quick Edit. The roll-out of this change is expected to be...
Improved warning for locked office files coming to OneDrive sync
Rolling out in September, users will see a more descriptive alert when attempting to work with some locked Office files. The new alert replaces a generic "Processing Changes" status in the OneDrive sync app with the following message: The file is open by you or...
Microsoft launches new feature to manage how long guests can access SharePoint and OneDrive documents
feature roll-out is expected to be completed by end of October. Microsoft has delayed roll-out of this feature. Timeline is now: Rollout to targeted release tenants will start before end of September 2020. Standard release tenants will start to see the rollout...
SharePoint on-premises – migrate site collection to new server
Here we're going to discuss the cleanest way (we have found) to migrate an on-premises site collection to a new server. This only covers the situation where both the original server and new server are both running essentially the same version of SharePoint. i.e. this...
SharePoint Online – Microsoft retires classic popularity reports
Classic usage and popularity reports will no longer be available on classic SharePoint online sites after August 7th 2020. From this date, users will be able to find site usage data through the modern Site Usage Report. On classic sites, the modern site usage report...
New SharePoint saved for later web part announced
New Web Part Microsoft has announced that a new SharePoint Saved For Later web part will be available on Modern SharePoint pages within a Microsoft 365 tenancy. Roll out is expected from mid May 2020 with all tenants having the feature available by end of July 2020....