Tag: SharePoint

SharePoint makes collaboration and sharing exceedingly easy — which can put sensitive and regulated content at risk. Accordingly, administrators need to put guardrails in place that facilitate appropriate sharing and prevent data leakage. Download eBook: Best Practices for SharePoint...

Monitoring SharePoint Server activity is vital to knowing who is accessing your SharePoint sites, services and content and how they’re using your system. Tracking SharePoint performance monitoring metrics can help you identify potential problems in time to stop them from negatively affecting...

Microsoft SharePoint is one of the most popular platforms for collaboration and content sharing within internal teams and even with external users. Therefore, ensuring SharePoint security is vital to helping your company avoid costly data breaches and business disruptions. This article details the...

Introduction Microsoft SharePoint enables users to share files with coworkers in just a few clicks. However, external sharing is just as easy— which puts the security of your sensitive data at risk. To help you control external sharing of files and folders without interfering with...

Microsoft Office 365 (now called Microsoft 365) enables collaboration and data sharing via solutions such as SharePoint Online, MS Teams and OneDrive. These applications enjoy widespread use but share a barrier to adoption — security concerns. Fortunately, cloud providers have more resources...

Most organizations today use Microsoft SharePoint to manage their everyday collaborative project and team content because it is an easy-to-use collaboration and document management solution that replaces network drives. Many of the documents in your SharePoint libraries are actually records that...

When faced with a legal action, organizations need to find and preserve documents and other data that might be relevant, not matter where it might be buried in the IT infrastructure business. When SharePoint is one of your information repositories, you need a way of discovering relevant information...

SharePoint item-level permissions affect the management of lists, folders and documents and the viewing of items and application pages. These permissions can be grouped together to create permission levels, which can be assigned to users and groups directly. These permissions consist of three...

Understanding SharePoint groups Microsoft SharePoint groups enable you to manage sets of users instead of individual users. A group can include individual SharePoint users, as well as users or groups from any identity management or domain services system, such as Active Directory Domain Services...

As an IT or SharePoint administrator, you have to manage the security of your farm, including properly provisioning the service accounts and end users that require access to SharePoint. Here, we explore how permissions in SharePoint work and best practices for using them to maximize SharePoint...