Ryan Clark

As the Modern Workplace Architect at Mr. SharePoint, I help companies of all sizes better leverage Modern Workplace and Digital Process Automation investments. I am also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint and Microsoft 365.

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How to Schedule a Meeting in Microsoft Teams (Complete)

How to Schedule a Meeting in Microsoft Teams (Complete)

Want to hold a meeting in Teams? In this guide, I will show you how to easily schedule a meeting in Microsoft Teams on different platforms. Let’s get started. Where you can schedule Teams meetings? What’s nice with Teams is that you can schedule meetings from several platforms. For example: The most common way to schedule a meeting is usually through the Teams desktop app. For some people who are always “on the go”, the mobile in iOS and Android also supports scheduling meetings. There’s also a method in Outlook where you can add meetings directly from the event creation […]

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How to Share Excel File for Multiple Users (Two Methods)

How to Share Excel Files with Multiple Users (Two Methods)

Can you share an Excel sheet with others? You want to share your Excel file with others, allow them to work on it, and make changes. Unless you’re a power user, collaborating with others with Excel may seem a bit tricky. This is a corner where Google Sheets shines brighter than Microsoft Excel… Recent changes to Excel may have made sharing somewhat easier, but it’s no way near the capabilities of Google Sheets. So then, how do you go and share an Excel file with multiple users and allow them to make changes? How do you make sure you get

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Create and Deploy a Custom Theme for SharePoint Modern Site

Create and Deploy a Custom Theme for SharePoint Modern Site

You feel limited by the number of default themes that SharePoint offers. Yes, they may be attractive (built-in) themes, but that’s all there is to it. You’re stuck with what’s available to you. Fortunately, you can now create your own custom theme with the help of the theme generator tool and install it on your site. The question now is, how do you use the tool? What to do then? How do you deploy that new custom theme that you built using the theme generator? In this article, you will learn the answers to those questions above in a step-by-step

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How to Fix “Cannot Send This Item” in Microsoft Outlook

How to Fix “Cannot Send This Item” in Microsoft Outlook

Outlook users have been reporting an issue on various online communities regarding a “Cannot send this item” error that they encounter. Although Microsoft has supposedly released a fix for this last April 2021, you may be one of those users who still experience this issue. The “Cannot send this item” error in Microsoft Outlook started showing up for users on long email threads and when replying or forwarding emails with embedded hyperlinks point to website pages with long URLs. To solve this issue, here are some fixes that you can implement, at least until you get the Microsoft update that

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How to Set Up a Mail Flow Rule for External Email Messages

How to Set Up a Mail Flow Rule for External Email Messages

You’re trying to set up a mail flow rule that will include a disclaimer to help protect members of your organization against harmful elements from external email messages from non-organization addresses. Unfortunately, after setting up a rule, putting up a nice code to make the disclaimer pop out, you find out that the rule doesn’t work. Even the colors you set up didn’t work as expected (or worse, didn’t show at all!). In this article, let’s address this issue. I’ll also show you step-by-step instructions on what to do to set up a working mail flow rule for external email

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How to Create a Team in Microsoft Teams [Quick Tutorial]

How to Create a Team in Microsoft Teams [Quick Tutorial]

So you just finished installing Microsoft Teams and you now want to create a team so you can communicate with your members. The thing is, those who are more adept at technology and using various software and platforms may not have any problems with this. Understandably, this will seem like rocket science to others who are not as adept. In this article, you’ll learn how to easily create a team in Microsoft, step by step, and how to manage it. In the course of the article, always refer to the images so you know which exact part to click. How

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How to Unlock a File in SharePoint Online: Fix Ghost Locks Fast

Your SharePoint file won’t open because it’s locked? In this guide, I’ll show you how to identify which type of lock you’re facing and unlock it based on your role. Let’s get started. File Locks in SharePoint Online Before you can fix a locked file, you need to understand what kind of lock you’re dealing with. SharePoint has three distinct types, and each requires a different approach. What Does a “Locked File” Actually Mean? When someone says “the file is locked,” they’re describing a symptom, not a specific problem. Think of it like a car that won’t start. It could

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How to Enable External Control in Microsoft Teams [Desktop Control]

How to Enable External Control in Microsoft Teams [Desktop Control]

One of the most often asked questions in regards to team collaboration in Microsoft Teams is how to enable external control of the desktop. This is such a pain especially for people who are miles apart and work together online. Fortunately, this is an easy fix, which you will learn in this article. Let’s start! How to Allow External Participant to Give/Request Control The first thing you need to know is that this feature is disabled by default for security measures. To activate this feature on Microsoft Teams, you need to access the admin center and change the policy there.

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How to Create Column and List Validation in SharePoint

How to Create Column and List Validation in SharePoint

The ability for your users to add metadata to the documents and files in a list or library is truly beneficial. With the use of other features like lookup columns and search filters, you’ll be able to find things a lot faster. Unfortunately, there’s only so much you can do to ensure that they enter the correct information. On the bright side, you can at least minimize the errors by setting up validation on the data with Excel-like formulas. In this article, let’s discuss column and list validation in SharePoint and what you have to do to set them up.

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How to Enable the Spell Check in Microsoft Teams

How to Enable Spell Check in Microsoft Teams Easily

Spell check is one of the most requested features in Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, a lot of users either find that their Teams don’t have any sort of spell check or worse, their spell check is not functioning correctly. Do you belong to any of those groups? In this article, let’s discuss the spell check feature in Microsoft Teams and show you how to activate it. Meanwhile, I will also outline here the steps to take if the spell check in your Teams is malfunctioning. Let’s start! Is there a spell check on Microsoft Teams? Yes! Although it has been a

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