Better Practice

Azure Automation to the Rescue – Session at Scottish Summit 2021

Saturday, 27 Feb, 2021
SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, PowerShell, Better Practice, PnP, PnP PowerShell

Hopefully, you have seen my session at the Scottish summit for ‘Azure Automation to the rescue, PnP PowerShell your way to the fun stuff’, whist quite a lengthy title, talks about how you can leverage Azure cloud services to offload

The many ways to set UK Locale in SharePoint

Friday, 6 Nov, 2020
SharePoint, Office 365, Administration, PowerShell, Better Practice, PnP PowerShell

So you have a UK tenant and want to default from US Locale; unfortunately, there isn’t a default option. There is the default time zone, under Site Creation in Modern administration centre, but this does not include Locale.

Series: Creating a Multi-lingual Intranet using Communication Sites

Sunday, 18 Nov, 2018
SharePoint, Office 365, Architecture, Better Practice, Intranet, Multilingual

SharePoint in general supports a wide range of languages. However, it is not immediately obvious how to set this up, configure it and what automation you can use to take advantage of the modern Communication Sites features. We cover a series of posts in working with the multi-lingual features

Prevent Document Library Deletion

Monday, 17 Sep, 2018
SharePoint, Office 365, PowerShell, Better Practice, PnP PowerShell

With document libraries, there isn’t a permission level to restrict deletion of document libraries. There is the standard out of the box ‘Manage Lists’ permission that includes the ability to create or delete lists/libraries.