March 2025

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): What You Need to Know

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) requires two or more verification factors before granting access, instead of relying on a password alone. The factors fall into three categories: Something you know: password, PIN, or security question — the easiest factor to compromise via phishing or social engineering. Something you have: a smartphone, hardware token, or access card — […]

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SharePoint Metadata Naming Convention: What You Need to Know

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A SharePoint metadata naming convention is just a consistent, structured way of labeling fields — ProjectName_StartDate instead of Start, DocType_Invoice instead of Type. It sounds minor until you’re six months into a growing SharePoint environment and every library names things differently. In this post: Why it matters · The naming rules · The gotcha: internal

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SharePoint Compliance Policy and Governance : What you need to know

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SharePoint Compliance Policy and Governance is the framework of rules and controls that govern how data is created, accessed, stored, shared, and disposed of in SharePoint — information management policies, security controls, retention schedules, auditing, and legal-hold capabilities, all in one place. In this post: The six pieces that make up governance · Why it

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Manage Site Storage Limits in SharePoint in Microsoft 365: Everything You Need to Know

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SharePoint site storage isn’t unlimited, and left unmanaged it grows quietly until someone hits a quota wall mid-project. Here’s how to actually keep it under control. In this post: How the storage pool actually works · What counts against your quota · What actually happens at the wall · Checking and setting quotas with PowerShell

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NAS vs Azure Blob Storage: What You Need to Know and Comparison

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NAS and Azure Blob Storage get compared a lot, but they’re solving different problems more often than they’re competing for the same one. NAS is a physical box on your network, giving fast local file access. Blob Storage is Microsoft’s cloud object store, built for scale and global reach rather than local speed. Which one

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When to Use Microsoft Forms: Quick Overview

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Worth two direct corrections before anything else: Microsoft Forms genuinely does support Likert-scale questions — a “no matrix/Likert” claim shows up often but hasn’t been accurate for a while — and Power BI integration is real and current, not absent, with a 2026 update to Forms v2.0 that supports fully automated dashboard refresh from Power

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PowerShell Commands : Quick Guide

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Worth a direct correction before anything else: `Get-WmiObject`, the cmdlet most PowerShell cheat sheets still lead with for system info, was removed entirely from PowerShell 7 — not deprecated, genuinely absent, so a script built around it fails outright on anything but Windows PowerShell 5.1. This is a trimmed, corrected reference: real, current commands grouped

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How to Delete File and List Versions in SharePoint: Quick Overview

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SharePoint versioning is genuinely useful — every edit gets its own recoverable snapshot — but nobody ever prunes it by default. A library with hundreds of edits per file over a few years can be carrying gigabytes of version history nobody’s looked at, pushing storage usage up and query performance down. Cleaning it up periodically

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Options for Microsoft: What You Need to Know

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) requires two or more verification factors before granting access — something you know (password/PIN), something you have (phone, security token), and something you are (biometrics). Combining factors means a stolen password alone isn’t enough to get in. In this post: Why it matters · Before you set it up · Not all

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