David J Pileggi Jr: Blogging to Make a Difference

Theory and Thoughts

These posts are made of my thoughts, ideas, observations and view points.

Theory and Thoughts

Keeping an Eye on the Risk in Asterisk

If you are using the Content type Hub in SharePoint to publish content types across the entire SharePoint Farm / Tenant, there is one thing you must never do. Never, ever, use the asterisk (*) in a site column. Here is the story behind this statement. Then, I will give Read more

By David, 3 yearsMarch 13, 2023 ago
Theory and Thoughts

M365 Adoption Battle – The Meaning of Life is Community

This is the second post of a two part series.  If you have not read M365 Adoption Battle – Welcome to the Pandemic Induced Pain feel free to give it a read to understand the premise for this post. Amazing Introduction My father, who recently passed away, had a quote he Read more

By David, 4 yearsMay 26, 2021 ago
Theory and Thoughts

M365 Adoption Battle – Welcome to the Pandemic Induced Pain

Fabulous Introduction It is great to be back, and writing once again.  I have been mulling over the content of this blog post for quite some time now.  We are one full year into the world wide situation known as a pandemic.  No matter what your views are around the Read more

By David, 4 yearsMay 19, 2021 ago
Theory and Thoughts

Maturing Your Company’s SharePoint Now

I have wanted to post this for some time now. I am going to start this post with a joke I heard from an acquaintance I knew a long time ago.  You and your decision makers will probably appreciate the punch line. “A tractor salesman walks up to a house Read more

By David, 10 yearsMarch 21, 2016 ago
Theory and Thoughts

Reading the Tea Leaves from Microsoft Ignite

The Microsoft Ignite conference was a huge conference attended by over 23,000 people.  It was multiple conferences pressed together into one (SharePoint, TechNet, and more).  The conference was well done, many breakout sessions to attend, and networking opportunities were available wherever you turned.  Being an attendee to every SharePoint Conference Read more

By David, 10 yearsMay 19, 2015 ago
Theory and Thoughts

Jornata – Bringing Humanity Back to Business

Welcome to the first of the series “Bringing Humanity Back into Business”.  I will be interviewing Jornata LLC. today.  The goal of this series is to draw connections from the SharePoint community and how these companies, individuals, etc., are targeting to put people first in what they do, with the Read more

By David, 12 yearsMarch 26, 2014 ago
Theory and Thoughts

Forward – Bringing Humanity Back into Business

Though my body is a bit sore, achy, and run down from SharePoint Conference affectionately known as #SPC14, I am writing this blog post absolutely rejuvenated. I have to tell you, I am very excited about this blog series that this post is starting, thus the Forward in front of Read more

By David, 12 yearsMarch 7, 2014 ago
Theory and Thoughts

AD Team and SharePoint Teams Need to Get on the Same Page

Here is the foundation for this post and why you need to read this if you have two teams.  One specific to AD (Active Directory) and the second team who owns SharePoint AND is not IT (about 99% of the time).  This more often than not happens in large organizations Read more

By David, 12 yearsDecember 5, 2013 ago
Theory and Thoughts

SharePoint: The True Reflection of your Business

Over the last 8 plus years I have been to many clients and worked for several companies that utilized SharePoint.  I have guided many of my clients to utilize best practices that the SharePoint community has come to recognize as standard.  Interestingly enough, the cliché about the cobblers kids held Read more

By David, 12 yearsSeptember 11, 2013 ago
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Making your SharePoint URL Useful

The stars must be in alignment, because here comes yet another blog post.   This is another area that I have found to be short of great information in the SharePoint community in explaining the URL, how its built and how it can actually be a good…  No, a great tool Read more

By David, 13 yearsOctober 17, 2012 ago

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