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I recently came across this issue with a client where they were unable to delete a folder with subfolders or files in it. If they did try they receive this error message: After some digging, I found that some policies were set that can cause this behaviour. Under Compliance.microsoft.com you will find Data lifecycle managementContinue reading “Can’t Delete a Folder in SPO”

If you want to use grouping on a list and it is a calculated column then you need to be careful which formula you put in the calculated column. It is best to use an IF statement. For examples: Grouping on a column with the following formula =TEXT([Date of Hours],”yyyy”) may cause problems with viewingContinue reading “SPO List Grouping using Calculated Column”

I am coming up to my 4th year anniversary of my company and when I created a logo back then it was really no more than a placeholder – so it is time to create a new one. With the new logo, the light blue ring represents global cloud technology that is Microsoft 365 andContinue reading “New Logo”

I came across a OneNote book and found I had created a Section Archive tab – totally forgot how I did this, thus this blog post. It is a simple thing to do… open your OneNote book, right click on any section tab and select New Section Group. Label it Archive and there you go.Continue reading “OneNote Archive”

Use to be that migrations were a pain when users named files with special characters like &, # or %, among a few. But today’s SharePoint online document libraries support special characters, not all but that is ok because neither does windows files in a folder or fileshare. Both Windows and SharePoint do not acceptContinue reading “Special Characters & Migrations”

Trouble logging into a new Microsoft 365 tenant or multiple tenants? You can use the InPrivate or Incognito mode and login but now modern browsers allow you to use them in Guest mode by clicking on you login name or image (top right hand) and select Guest. Either way makes sure that your browser isn’tContinue reading “Too many logins/tenants?”

All was working well until a week ago when I started getting recurring sign-in issues with the powerapps on my Android (OnePlus 7T). Due to my work I have many different client tenants that I need to sign into (pro tip: get LastPass for managing and generating passwords). After trying the many blog ‘go toContinue reading “Trouble with PowerApps sign-ins (Android Phone)”

You might be considering moving to the cloud or you have been using these services but not sure what your next step is to making best use of the technology. Let’s focus on Microsoft 365 as the cloud platform of choice and consider each week there are roughly 15 to 20 change notices to thisContinue reading “What Next…”

Another SharePoint idiosyncrasy: Microsoft lists the illegal characters not to use when naming things like folders in a document library to be: ” * : < > ? / \ | So it stands to reason that I can name a folder, for example, .folder or fo.lder, however when I try to use a nameContinue reading “.folder ok, folder. not”

There was a time when I preached folders bad, metadata good when it came to SharePoint….but time has passed and many users are just too busy to tag files and are too attached to folders. A client asked me to build a way to filter folders based on a list, huh?… you can’t filter folders,Continue reading “Auto Tagging Based on Folder”