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Category: Content Management

  • SharePoint Online Wish List

    SharePoint Online keeps shipping features, but several core areas still need attention. Here are the platform improvements I most want to see from Microsoft.

  • When Do I Need A New Content Type?

    Knowing when to create a new content type is part science and part art. Here are the major technical points you’ll want to consider when designing SharePoint information architectures.

  • Demystifying the Enterprise Keywords Column

    In this post I walk through the often misunderstood enterprise keywords column in SharePoint. By the end its utility and importance will hopefully translate into its use on your next project.

  • Typical Intranet Content For Planning and Design

    No matter what technology trends come and go, the core content types on intranets stay remarkably consistent. A reference checklist for planning and design.

  • Introduction to SharePoint Views

    A companion guide to SharePoint views, written for the SharePoint 365 project. Covers the fundamentals end users actually need.

  • Removing and Replacing Default SharePoint Ribbon Styles

    How to replace the default ribbon styles in SharePoint 2010 with your own, including a fix for content editor web parts.

  • Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification

    A video walkthrough showing why metadata and content types beat folders for classifying content in SharePoint.

  • Sample Information Architecture Design Process for Migration

    A walkthrough of a fictional file share migration into SharePoint, focused on the questions and decisions behind building a proper information architecture.

  • SharePoint 2010 and Folders

    SharePoint 2010 finally bridges the gap between folder and metadata camps with folder-level metadata, filtered views, and metadata navigation.

  • Counting Content Types

    When it comes to SharePoint content types, lean toward more granularity, not less. Under-architecting creates problems that are expensive to fix later.