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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Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Labels classify and protect data based on how sensitive it is — encryption, watermarking, access control — and unlike bolt-on security tools, the label travels embedded in the file itself, so it stays enforced even after the document is copied, downloaded, or shared outside the org. In this post: Key features ·
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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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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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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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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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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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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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