This Week at Simply SharePoint

A fresh free download, new releases and a quick tip you can use today. Plus: there’s a mini-competition at the end—read right to the bottom to win a free course seat. 🎯

• 🎁 Free Download: Copilot Readiness Checklist — a quick scorecard to audit libraries, metadata and permissions.
• 🧭 New Release: The Container Method™ – SharePoint Site Planning Guide — map sites, libraries and content types with confidence.
• 🤖 New Mini-Course: Fix the Mess™: Copilot Readiness (60 minutes) — the exact clean-up steps to get AI-ready, fast.
• 📚 Course Spotlight: The Container Method™ – SharePoint Essentials for End Users — the fundamentals without the jargon.
• 💼 New Bundles: Grab courses + downloads in discounted bundles and save heaps.
• ✍️ On the Blog: Policy & Procedure Hub (real-world build), Site Planning for AI readiness and a legal firm’s permissions makeover.
• 💡 Quick Tip from Liza: Use Add shortcut to OneDrive for shared folders—faster access in File Explorer/Finder without breaking the single source of truth.
• 🏆 Competition: “Naming Disaster!” — share the worst column or file name you’ve seen (and your better name) for a chance to win. Details at the end.

Thanks for reading — let’s fix the mess and make SharePoint fun. 💪

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🎙 Latest Podcast Episode:
Final_Version_7_REALLY_Final.docx — The SharePoint Intervention You Didn’t Know You Needed

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💡 Quick Tip of the Week: “Add to OneDrive” for Shared Libraries

Bring a shared SharePoint/Teams folder into your own OneDrive so it appears in File Explorer/Finder—no hunting through sites every time.

1. In SharePoint or Teams, open the folder you use often.
2. Click Add shortcut to OneDrive (sometimes shown as Add shortcut).
3. Open your computer’s OneDrive folder—your shortcut appears instantly with a small link icon.
4. (Optional) Right-click → Always keep on this device for offline access.

Why it’s great: Faster access, fewer clicks, and your files still live in the original team library—permissions and single source of truth intact.
Heads-up: It’s a shortcut, not a copy. If the team moves/renames the folder, your shortcut follows.

🎓 Courses & New Releases

• 🧭 New Release: The Container Method™ – SharePoint Site Planning Guide — map sites, libraries, and content types with confidence.
  View Planning Guide
• 🤖 New Mini-Course: Fix the Mess™: Copilot Readiness (60 minutes) — the exact clean-up steps to get AI-ready, fast.
  Start Mini-Course
• 📚 Course Spotlight: The Container Method™ – SharePoint Essentials for End Users — the fundamentals without the jargon.
  Explore Essentials

🎯 Naming Disaster! — Mini Competition

This week it’s a game of skill: send me the worst column name or file name disaster you’ve seen — and tell me what it should have been called. Think “FINAL_v9_NEW_use_this_really_FINAL” or “RefNum2_OLD?”. I’ll pick the smartest/clearest entry and the winner gets free enrolment in my Fix the Mess™: Copilot Readiness mini-course (60 minutes). Entries close 11:59 pm AEDT, 16 October 2025.

Submit Your Entry

One entry per person. Redact sensitive info in screenshots. Read T&Cs.

“If Taylor’s in her full showgirl era, we’re in our full structure era:
build the setlist (libraries), nail the bridge (content types), and give every file its spotlight—
no more final_v9 encores.”

— A sparkly reminder that metadata is the real headliner.

Liza | Simply SharePoint

“Simplifying SharePoint, one step at a time.”