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25 years of developing and designing for SharePoint

By Tom Resing on March 2, 2026 / SharePoint Online / Leave a comment

Today, March 2nd, we’re celebrating 25 years of Microsoft’s set of software and services branded as SharePoint and the community that’s formed around SharePoint. The first install My own personal journey with SharePoint started when I was a manager of software development at a startup in Evanston, Illinois. Our team developed the web-based delivery platform for our company’s main product: data about print ads, mainly in newspapers. My manager, the director of IT, and my former roommate in college, suggested

Change your Site Title, Change your Page Title

By Tom Resing on December 7, 2016 / SharePoint Online / Leave a comment

Tags: End User, Power User

Change your Site Title, Change your Page Title

Have you ever noticed that the default SharePoint page type shares its homepage title with the site? I was just asked today how to change the title on the homepage of a team site today. It took me a few minutes to make the connection. Home Let’s say you created a new team site called test. The homepage will have a title of “Home”. Site Settings Drop Down To change the title of the page, start with the gear icon in the

A Conversation with Alexa about SharePoint

By Tom Resing on November 14, 2016 / Bots, Development, Devices, Microsoft, Mobile, Office 365, SharePoint Online / 5 Comments

Tags: alexa, cortana, siri, top

A Conversation with Alexa about SharePoint

If you could talk to you Amazon Echo about SharePoint, what would you discuss? Conversation as a Platform (CaaP) is a hot topic in technology in 2016. The Echo device just celebrated it’s second birthday, Facebook Messenger just launched a new commerce model and millions in China are using messaging apps to transfer money every day. My Story with Personal Digital Agents I’ve been exploring conversations with personal digital agents like Alexa, Siri and Cortana for more than 2 years

What is Limited Access? And how do I remove it?

By Tom Resing on July 12, 2010 / SharePoint Online / 24 Comments

Definition Limited access: a condition when someone can only see individual items on a SharePoint site. The limited access warning is shown after any user who doesn’t have permission to the entire site gets permission to at least one file or list item. How to remove the warning You might see the following warning banner in SharePoint’s advanced site permissions page. There are limited access users on this site. Users may have limited access if an item or document under