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Governance
Staten Island Ferry, New-York, USA
24 June 2025
Optimizing storage in SharePoint Online part 1 - implement an automatic version policy

Organisations have stored vast amounts of data in SharePoint Online, and this is still growing. Lots of them are hitting...
Migration
Flavian Amphitheater, Rome, Italy
24 June 2024
The power of regular expressions

In some cases, migrations require smart ways to find and replace specific string-values supporting one or more conditions at...
Productivity
Alt
21 December 2023
Measuring files, folders, and storage metrics in SharePoint Online

When performing migrations in or to SharePoint Online, metrics are key in ensuring that the intended set of files and folders...
Migration
11 August 2023
Exploring the AvePoint Fly public API

AvePoint Fly is a powerful SaaS solution to support cloud migrations to and between Microsoft 365 tenants. The availability...
Development
13 March 2023
User defined PowerShell snippets in VS Code

For bigger PowerShell-projects containing custom functions and modules, user defined snippets can help to boost productivity...
Migration
Strand Oerd, Ameland
8 March 2023
Avoiding MFA reauthentication when migrating with ShareGate in bulk

Using MFA for migration service account is getting pretty common nowadays. But how do you work with MFA if you need to...
Migration
Vuurtoren, DeCocksdorp, Texel, Netherlands
8 February 2023
The power of parameter sets and splatting

As I work a lot with PowerShell to support data migrations for a variety of scenarios, I need to be flexible in providing...
Development
6 February 2023
Solving client certificate “Invalid algorithm specified” issue in PowerShell

I’ve been struggling with the error “Exception calling “SignData” with “3” argument(s): “Invalid algorithm...
Migration
De Willemshof, The Hague, Netherlands
9 January 2023
Migrate selected files and folders programmatically

Some scenarios require a specific selection of folders and the root level files to be migrated opposed to a single path. This...
Migration
14 March 2022
How to initialize private teamchannel SPO sites

Did you ever have to provision Teams with one or more private channels prior to a data migration? You might have encountered...
Migration
IJmuiden, Netherlands
9 December 2020
Performing successful migrations to the Microsoft cloud

I very much enjoyed sharing some insights and live demos for migrations to Microsoft 365 during the Collabdays BeNeLux 2020...
Migration
2 October 2020
Parsing ShareGate migration reports

ShareGate:Desktop provides excellent PowerShell support for performing fully scripted migrations from e.g. file shares to...
Security
21 June 2019
Ramping up to Sensitivity Labels for SharePoint sites

Microsoft recently announced new Governance and Compliance capabilities during the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. This...
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