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  • System Column Names in SharePoint and Microsoft Lists

    System Column Names in SharePoint & Microsoft Lists

    Have you ever created a column in a SharePoint list or library and noticed that the system name is different from the name you gave it? This is because column names in SharePoint have a system name that does not include spaces. Read more on best practices to use system names appropriately and how to find them!

  • New Feature: Announcements in Viva Connections

    Announcements in Viva Connections

    The new Announcements in Viva Connections feature enables you to create & share time-sensitive messages with your employees. Check out my post and the short video that demonstrates exactly how to use the feature!

  • Microsoft Fabric

    Microsoft Fabric and Copilot

    At Microsoft's Build 2023 conference, Microsoft Fabric was announced as the new integrated and simplified experience for all analytics, along with Copilot in Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft says Fabric is a next-generation service that can transform your data into intelligence and innovation. Click to read more!

  • The POWER of Microsoft Lists and Power BI - Guy in a Cube

    The POWER of Microsoft Lists and Power BI – Guy in a Cube

    My second visit with Adam at Guy in a Cube highlights the benefits of using data from a Microsoft List in Power BI. Many organizations have data in their SharePoint and Microsoft Lists. I show how you can visualize that data using Power BI - in more than one way!

  • The MAGIC of Microsoft Teams and Power BI - with Guy in a Cube

    The MAGIC of Microsoft Teams + Power BI – Guy in a Cube

    I recently had the pleasure of working with Guy in a Cube on a video highlighting the benefits of using Power BI in Microsoft Teams. It was fun to break-in - I mean be invited into Patrick's cube - to record this video with Adam. :)  With almost 24,000 views in just a few days, it has proven a popular topic! Be on the lookout for another video we recorded around Microsoft Lists!

  • Communities in Microsoft Teams - Daniel Glenn

    Communities in Teams

    Microsoft has announced the launch of Communities in Teams - a new take on Microsoft Teams for personal use. Using the same Microsoft Teams app and learnings from years of use by millions of users, anyone will be able to use Teams for calls, sharing, and collaborating. I had the pleasure of speaking with Amit Fulay, Vice President of Product at Microsoft, about the launch and the direction Communities in Microsoft Teams is headed. The video of our conversation is at the end of this post.

  • Move a Microsoft List

    Move a Microsoft List from My Lists to a Team

    I was recently asked how to move a Microsoft List from "My Lists", which is a personal list stored in OneDrive, to a SharePoint site. There are a few options to do this, and I will cover just a few here and demonstrate one of the easy methods.

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    Microsoft Office Account Error Fix

    I recently ran into an issue when trying to open documents in Microsoft Office apps in Windows. My Office apps are licensed via a Microsoft 365 license and the documents I wanted to open were stored in OneDrive for Business. However, when I tried to open the document in the desktop app, I received an error: Sorry, another account from your organization is already signed in on this computer. I was able to fix the issue, but it did take a few minutes of troubleshooting to figure it out. Read below how to easily get this error removed. I also created a video showing the solution that's embedded at the…

  • OneDrive Context Menu Fix

    How to Add OneDrive to the Windows Context Menu

    Normally when the OneDrive sync client installed, you can control file behaviors via the Windows context menu. However, on the PC I logged into, those OneDrive menu items were not there when I selected a file. It was as if OneDrive wasn't installed at all. But OneDrive was installed! Check out this post, including a one-minute video showing the solution, to find out how it is fixed!