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SharePoint is Microsoft’s hub for storing, organizing, file sharing, and accessing information across your organization. Launched in 2001, SharePoint has been a trusted product that millions of users depend on every day.   Whether reviewing documents in real-time while video calling, or collaborating in group chats, users familiar with these common tools are reliant on SharePoint. […]

In this Expert Q&A, Chris Bovasso, Arraya’s Director, Application Services, and Mike Wishnefsky, Solutions Engineer, discuss when organizations should consider moving to SharePoint Online. In addition, they outline the top reasons to move SharePoint to the cloud, the benefits of doing so, and highlight what users can achieve through integrations and customizations with the online […]

Microsoft built native integration between Power Apps and SharePoint to make customizing list management experiences extremely easy. In this step-by-step walk through, we’ll dive into just how straightforward of a process it is to manage SharePoint list data with Power Apps. To get started, let’s create a list: To save time, we will create the […]

Are your organization’s on-premises files destined for life in a cloud-based platform, like Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business? It’s a common second step – after email – in many cloud journeys. It’s also one that, if not handled carefully, can lead to disruptions or worse, data loss.   Arraya’s Cloud and Workspace team has helped execute […]

A common problem with SharePoint, regardless of version, is that once a list or library has more than 2000 items in it, performance is impacted. Once you reach 5000 items, the impact becomes severe. The issue lies with a fundamental part of the interaction between SQL and SharePoint and, because of that, it is not […]

SharePoint Online can go a long way toward boosting organizational efficiency – however not all of its most helpful features are configured out of box. Some may not even appear to exist at all. The latter is true of one of SharePoint on-prem’s more-popular capabilities: incoming email. While this time and headache-saving ability doesn’t exist […]

Shortly after college, I joined a gym. It wasn’t that I was overweight, it just seemed like something I should do – a healthy lifestyle change. The gym assigned me a personalized coach in the first session to build a quick exercise plan. I took the guidance, but didn’t really get anywhere. After a few […]

Almost every customer that moves to Office 365 starts the migration with email. Perhaps it has to do with the send/receive relationship of email. Regardless, email is the function most IT organizations are comfortable using to test the cloud. At Arraya, we enable this by helping customers create a rock-solid tenant, layer on some security, […]

How has your company’s thought process around IT changed during the last eight years? Considering the speed at which technology moves, that’s basically a lifetime or more. As a business’ technological vision changes, so too can the partners it relies on to help execute that vision. Building long-term relationships, while beneficial, can be tough – […]

SharePoint’s purpose has always been to make it easier for people to access files and collaborate. However, we’ve seen many SharePoint sites that, while accessible, are far from easy. Too often SharePoint sites are being overwhelmed by folders. It makes sense as people are used to organizing documents via a folder structure. Familiar or not, […]