POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act) is a South African law that was enacted in 2013 to regulate the processing of personal information by public and private entities. The act provides for the protection of personal information and sets out the minimum standards for the collection, storage, use, and dissemination [...]
Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is a technology that allows businesses to automate repetitive, mundane tasks that are typically performed by humans. These tasks can include data entry, customer service, and other routine activities that are time-consuming and prone to errors. [...]
SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform developed by Microsoft. It can be used to create websites, manage documents, and facilitate team collaboration. SharePoint comes in two main versions: SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint 365. SharePoint 2019 is the on-premises version of the software, which means it is installed [...]
Permission management in SharePoint is always a complex task, especially in large environments. Granting permissions in SharePoint becomes cumbersome when you are trying to clone an existing user’s access rights. Consider this scenario: You have an existing user in a department granted access to various SharePoint web applications, sites, lists, [...]
I have a process for our payroll department where I need to duplicate a SharePoint document library every month, keep the folder structure and permissions (permission set per folder) but remove all files. I achieved this using ShareGate and Powershell. I use ShareGate to copy the library and keep the [...]
I always struggle to remember OR find the right page\bookmark for the 100s of Azure AD pages. Below you can find some of the more commonly used ones in an easy-to-use shortcut format. Alternatively, you can view the complete list and access it via browser plugins. Here is how it [...]
Naming conventions are an important part of your toolkit when it comes to keeping Microsoft 365 manageable. Consistent naming has many benefits from helping Outlook users find the right distribution group, to helping administrators apply the right policy to the correct set of SharePoint sites, and beyond. [...]
There is a useful observation about the world that is often applied to software development called the Pareto principle or Pareto’s law. This principle suggests that in many situations 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. For example, Pareto had realized that 80% of the land in Italy, during his [...]
When I started working with my team in agile, one of the trickiest challenges was creating a good retrospective. Most training and resources will point you to the defaults: What should the team start doing? 2. What should the team stop doing? 3. What should the team continue doing? These [...]
Recursion is a concept in which method calls itself. Every recursive method needs to be terminated, therefore, we need to write a condition in which we check is the termination condition satisfied. If we don’t do that, a recursive method will end up calling itself endlessly. Example 1: Create an [...]
