SharePoint Tips and Tricks

SharePoint 2016 New Features – Image and Video Previews

SharePoint 2016 New Features – Image and Video Previews

SharePoint Server 2016 is released with numerous new features, image and video preview is one of them. When you upload images and videos to a document library in SharePoint server 2016, you can see a preview by hovering the mouse over the image or video, or by clicking on them. In this blog, I will […]

Outgoing Email Settings in SharePoint 2016

Outgoing Email Settings in SharePoint 2016

For any messages (such as alerts, notifications and site invitations) to be sent out of SharePoint server, you need to configure SMTP server to send the messages. This server can be any SMTP-compliant server that you can connect to using port 25 from the SharePoint server. For SharePoint 2010/2013, it cannot be configured to send […]

How to setup metadata navigation and filtering in a SharePoint list

How to setup metadata navigation and filtering in a SharePoint list

There are several filtering methods in a SharePoint list to help users to find the items which meet the certain criteria., such as column header filter, filter in view, filter web part and more. Metadata navigation and filtering feature was first introduced in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint provides this feature in each list with a settings […]

SharePoint Co-authoring Feature

SharePoint Co-authoring Feature

When people are working on one document in a SharePoint document library, the SharePoint co-authoring feature makes people collaborate and work easily. With the co-authoring feature, one author can edit his content and another author can edit hers, and they can see the changes of each other in real-time. There are two kinds of SharePoint co-authoring, […]

SharePoint Versioning

SharePoint Versioning

Versioning is the method by which successive iterations of a document are numbered and saved. A system of version control is useful for documents which are likely to be revised and redrafted and where you might need to keep a record of how the document changed over time. There are some benefits of versioning: There […]

A comparison of Out-of-SharePoint and SharePoint Excel Import

A comparison of Out-of-SharePoint and SharePoint Excel Import

If you already have data in a spreadsheet and want to import the data to a SharePoint list. There are several ways to do it on SharePoint. 1. Create a list from a spreadsheet using Import Spreadsheet app on a SharePoint site. 2. In the worksheet, select the table that you want to export, and […]

Errors you may meet when install SharePoint 2016

Errors you may meet when install SharePoint 2016

When I install and deploy SharePoint 2016, I find a very useful blog which instructs the installation step by step. http://mstechtalk.com/sharepoint-server-2016-installation-step-by-step But I still encounter some issues when install and deploy SharePoint 2016, and I will introduce how to solve them in this blog. 1. Error in process of Prerequisite installation. When I run the […]

New and Improved Features of SharePoint 2016 - 3

New and Improved Features of SharePoint 2016 – 3

Hi guys, let us continue to explore the new and improved features about SharePoint 2016. Sharing Improvements SharePoint Server 2016 has many new sharing improvements available. Including: Create and share a folder   Sharing hit See who the folder is shared with when viewing a folder. Members can share Unlike the past versions of SharePoint, […]