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 BI Desktop
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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 is routine
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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 MFA
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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 account
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Four ways to update a term in the SharePoint Term Store programmatically (SharePoint’s own REST API, Microsoft Graph, plain JavaScript, and PnPjs) and what actually differs between them beyond “which one is easiest.” In this post: Option 1: SharePoint REST API · Option 2: Microsoft Graph · Option 3: plain JavaScript · Option 4: PnPjs
Metadata is what makes SharePoint content findable and governable beyond “search the filename.” Here are the four real ways to actually apply it, and how to keep it from becoming its own mess. In this post: Four ways to apply metadata · Site columns vs. the Term Store · Building the term set with PnP
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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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