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5 steps to clean up your Outlook on-the-web mailbox
Some time ago we introduced the Microsoft365 F1-license into our organization. I work in a health care organization and the majority of our staff is providing care and counseling to our clients and...
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Is my collection of intranet promotion videos still relevant?
You may know I have been collecting intranet and digitalworkplace promotion videos from 2011 onwards. My aim is to collect and share videos to inform, inspire and amuse the community. They are often a...
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Writing SharePoint news posts (our way)
A few months ago I helped create and introduce a SharePoint intranet for “my” health care organization. The majority of the new intranet consists of SharePoint Pages and News, default functionality....
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Voice, another speech-to-text option!
Did I ever mention that I am a big fan of speech-to-text functionality? Not only does it save time, but it is also magical to see your spoken word turn into pretty accurate text. (Yes, even in Dutch)...
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Moving to Stream on SharePoint
I have never been a fan of Stream. The interface is totally non-Microsoft and I always forgot where I could change ownership, for instance. My admin account needed a license in order to become a...
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Stream on SharePoint – tips for your migration project
Last week I changed my tenant from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint). All nice and dandy, but as it turned out, videos that live in Stream (Classic), stay there, so if you have spent a lot of...
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Alternatives for the Stream web part on your SharePoint page
So, the other day I switched the link of my Stream tile and I found out I needed to plan for a migration project of videos currently residing in Stream. Now my one-person-tenant does not have a lot of...
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Manual migration from Stream to SharePoint
You will have noticed I am currently trying to find out as much as possible about the consequences of the decommissioning of Microsoft Stream. There is no hurry, as only the Targeted Release has been...
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Where to create a video in Office365
This Stream project is a gift that keeps on giving. There are so many things I want to find out and write about! Not just for myself, but especially for you, to help you understand what this change...
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Can the document library web part look like Stream?
OneDrive and SharePoint will be the storage location for video in Office365. I have already shown earlier how to display your videos on SharePoint pages. I was curious to learn what you can do with...
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From Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) – summary
Redirecting the Stream tile to Stream (on SharePoint) will roll out to standard release tenants from now. Office365 support folks may ask themselves what to do – enable it now or wait until more is...
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Diverting SharePoint News comments to the Author
K: “Hi Ellen, can you post this on the ICT News page for me, please?” E: “Sure Karla, will do and I’ll let you know when you can review it.” K: “Can you make sure all comments are directed to me?” E:...
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7 things to know about the Description field in SharePoint pages and news
My former colleague recently asked me how to add metadata or tags to SharePoint news or pages, in order to be able to make them link to a certain common topic, and be able to find them in Search. My...
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Teams Housekeeping for beginners
Most organizations will have been working with Teams for about two years now. There was an explosion of usage early in the pandemic in March/April 2020. I remember getting tons of requests for new...
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SharePoint Holmes and the not-so-Dynamic Description
The case “Can you help me? I have edited my SharePoint News post two days ago, but the old text is still visible on the News page, under the title. How can I update it?” SharePoint Holmes had not had...
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Conferences and OneNote – updated
In-person conferences are back! And while we all managed to attend a lot of conferences online with very few issues, it is great to be able to meet face-to-face again, get swag and rejoice or complain...
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10 more things to know about creating SharePoint News
Some time ago I wrote a post: 15 things to know about creating SharePoint News By now it is 16 things, because posts with numbers are cursed, as my fellow bloggers will know In the mean time I have...
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Why does my SharePoint News digest not reach my colleagues?
Since a few weeks I am also on Mastodon (@ellenvanaken@mastodon.social) and there I happened upon this question from @almostwitty: “Does anyone know how to manage the SharePoint “News you might have...
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SharePoint Holmes and the Lost Link (to the News digest)
Another occasion where SharePoint Holmes saved the day. The situation “I need to send out a News digest today for my colleague and she showed me how to do it, but it does not work for me” I heard on...
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SharePoint Holmes and the Missing Message
SharePoint News is easy to create and manage, but that does not mean things can not “go wrong”. This is often due to unexpected or unknown behaviour. So, you can imagine that our hero SharePoint...
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