KQL (Keyword Query Language) is what SharePoint and Microsoft Search actually parse behind a search box — keywords, managed properties, and operators that let you ask for exactly what you mean instead of hoping full-text matching gets there on its own. In this post: What KQL actually does · Where you’ll actually write it · […]
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Microsoft now offers a native, in-preview way to move SharePoint Online and OneDrive content between tenants — for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or restructuring — instead of relying on third-party tools like ShareGate or AvePoint. It’s Microsoft-managed and doesn’t need a separate migration platform, but it comes with its own licensing requirements and prep work. In
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SharePoint Document Library Sync uses OneDrive for Business as its engine to mirror a document library to your local machine — files show up in File Explorer or Finder like any other folder, staying two-way synced with the cloud, permissions and versioning intact. In this post: How it works · Real limits worth knowing ·
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: Purview’s job description changed meaningfully with the arrival of Copilot and enterprise AI adoption, in a way most overviews of it haven’t caught up to yet. This post skips the invented “a healthcare provider…” vignettes that usually pad this topic and goes straight to what Purview’s individual capabilities
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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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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 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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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) 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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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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