Author Archives for Michael Adkins

Updates to M365 Licensing – April 2020
The licensing world at Microsoft is always a challenge for our customers to keep up with, as new products, features...

Getting management buy-in for the SharePoint journey
The vast majority of businesses are using some sort of SharePoint solution in their organization. It may vary from SharePoint foundation...

Scrub hidden metadata in SharePoint docs
As ECM consultants, we harp on metadata and the importance of having strong data behind your content management strategy. This...

Security planning for your SharePoint deployment
Every project should have a considerable amount of the overall effort dedicated to planning. We typically gage 25% of overall effort....

Moving your file shares to an ECM platform
As an organization approaches a migration from network file shares , one of the most difficult thing to do is...

3 simple ways to increase SharePoint usability within your organization
Usability in a SharePoint site is critical to success. Often times an end user needs to go to the wayside while focus...

Using a search connector can surface SharePoint results
Users today expect to go to one place for their information by using their favorite search engine, blogging site, or...

Leveraging SharePoint as the framework for your Human Resources (HR) portal
Human Resource (HR) departments are continually being challenged with fewer and fewer resources while at the same time being required...

Do you know how to search?
You sat in the design sessions for the new SharePoint platform. Buzzwords like ‘metadata’, ‘information architecture”, and ‘taxonomy’ were thrown...

3 tips for successfully using record management within SharePoint
So quite some time ago, you decided to starting using SharePoint for content management and collaboration. That was about a year, what...