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Is It Time for an Intranet Upgrade?

It’s Monday morning. Time to work. The weekend is rapidly fading into a distant memory. You pour coffee into your mug, then reluctantly settle in at your desk, hoping the caffeine kicks in soon so you can begin the arduous task of tracking down the quarterly expense reports. You need to find the expense summary page on the intranet to begin, but you can’t quite remember where that page lives in the intranet.

After firing up your web browser, the familiar, yet clunky and (let’s be honest here) ugly company intranet greets you. Scrolling down the page, you don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the first block of content you see because it’s usually a couple of months out of date and rarely relevant to your needs. Instead, you embark on a quest through a seemingly endless list of links, desperately searching for the one that takes you to the expense report summary.

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life Part 4: What Can I Do to Prepare?

OK, this is the 4th installment of this blog series, and I have to admit that I have sort of tricked you. At one level or another, all of these articles have tried to introduce you to some of the steps to take as part of your upgrade. 

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life, Part 3: What Cool Stuff Do We Get?

In our first 2 installments of this series, SharePoint 2013 - End of Life, What Next? and Migrating SharePoint 2013 to a modern version of SharePoint: Is there an easy way? we discussed what the “End of Life” for SharePoint 2013 this upcoming April means for organizations and if there is an easy way to move it to something newer.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life, Part 2: Is there an easy way to migrate?

In my last article, we talked about Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 reaching end of life in April of 2023. This means that organizations using SharePoint 2013 must move to other options, and we gave a brief overview of the platforms that Microsoft has provided as choices going forward.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life, Part 1: What's Next?

A New Year always brings a lot of new opportunities, but sometimes it also signals that it is time to let go of things from the past. One of the things we will all have to let go of soon is SharePoint 2013. 

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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SharePoint Best Practices, Migration, and Collaboration

PAIT Group’s newest MVP, Joy Apple, was recently a guest on the Cloud Conversations with Ru and Pete podcast.  In this episode, Joy shared SharePoint best practices and expert tips on migration and collaboration in Microsoft 365. The unique way Joy communicates the importance of these topics is on display.  I have summed up a few highlights from the episode, but I highly recommend pressing play below.

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