Ryan Clark

Have a lot of documents in your document libraries? Even if you have a large number of documents, management is easy if you properly organize those documents. In this article, I’ll share a few best practices I know when it comes to SharePoint document management. Let’s get started. Document management best practices in SharePoint To make the necessary changes to implement the practices below, you will need at least administrator access. 1. Tag documents with metadata Do you heavily use folders in your document library? Well, it makes sense since we’re all used to creating folders on our Windows machines. […]

Need to make someone a site collection administrator? There are at least three ways you can achieve this — all are relatively easy, with one being an arms reach only if you’re in SharePoint. In this guide, I’ll teach you how to make someone a site collection administrator step-by-step in three ways. Let’s get started. What does a SharePoint site collection administrator do? Every time you create a new site collection, there are three basic permission groups that the system creates: Site owners have full control over the site collection, including creating and configuring libraries, lists, and subsites. Site collection administrators are

Do you need to set up specific permissions on each item on a list? The good news is, it’s quite easy to do. In fact, you may have already seen the option or the setting that will allow you to do so. In this article, I will show you how to enable and configure item-level permissions in a SharePoint list. Let’s get started. What are permission levels in SharePoint? Consider the following cases: This is where item-level permissions come in. Permission levels basically pertain to how much access a user has to each item on a list (aka what they