March 2025

OneDrive vs. Google Drive: Which One Should You Use?

Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive both do cloud storage, sync, and file collaboration well — the real difference is which ecosystem they’re built around, and that decides more of the day-to-day experience than the storage specs do. In this post: OneDrive: key features · Google Drive: key features · Prerequisites · Integrations · Enterprise admin […]

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How to Remove SharePoint File Shared Links: Approach Overview and Sample Implementations

Shareable links are convenient right up until nobody remembers who they went to. A view-only or edit link created for a one-time external review doesn’t expire on its own unless you set it up that way, and over time a library can accumulate links that are still technically live long after anyone needed them. Removing

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SharePoint On-Premises Limitations : What you need to know

Worth a direct correction before the numbers themselves: “15 concurrent workflows per content database” doesn’t appear anywhere in Microsoft’s own current software boundaries documentation for SharePoint Server — the real, verified workflow constraint is a rate limit (activations per second per web server), not a fixed concurrency cap. This post keeps the genuinely accurate numbers

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SharePoint PowerShell Commands: Common Snippets

A reference set of PowerShell cmdlets for day-to-day SharePoint administration — site/list management, users and permissions, metadata reporting, and on-prem backup/restore. Covers both PnP PowerShell (recommended for Online and on-prem alike) and the native SharePoint Online module. In this post: Setup and connecting · Connecting unattended, for scheduled scripts · Site collection and site management

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SharePoint Sync Limitations: What You Need to Know

Worth a direct correction before anything else: the “one work or school account per device” limit that gets repeated for OneDrive sync is genuinely outdated — current OneDrive sync supports one personal account plus up to nine work or school accounts simultaneously on the same Windows device (macOS is more restrictive, limited to one business

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SharePoint Retention Period: What You Need to Know

SharePoint Retention Period is a policy-driven feature, part of Microsoft Purview, that controls how long content is kept before it’s deleted or archived. It’s how you actually enforce a retention rule instead of relying on someone remembering to clean up old files. In this post: The three pieces · Why it matters · Retention labels

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SharePoint Copy Files: Everything You Need to Know

SharePoint’s built-in Copy Files feature moves or duplicates files between libraries — same site or across sites — without needing a third-party tool. It’s the right call for routine content distribution; whether it’s the right call for a bulk migration is a different question, covered below alongside the automated alternatives. In this post: What affects

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SharePoint Audit Trail: What You Need to Know

SharePoint’s audit trail tracks who accessed, changed, shared, or deleted content, and when. It’s what you actually pull up when someone asks “who touched this file” or an audit needs a record of access history. In this post: Four ways to get at it · Which -Operations value to actually use · Pulling more than

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