On Monday I complete my 50th orbit of the sun. I think my mum is still coming to terms with the fact that her little boy is now twice the age she was when she had me! Back then New Zealand was a pretty small place, there we just 6 people born in the entire country that day, so I made the paper.

To celebrate here are 50 things you can do with SharePoint, in no particular order:

1. Share documents with people inside and outside your organisation
2. Share News
3. Create Events
4. Display the weather
5. Display a countdown timer
6. Get alerted when someone updates a document
7. Get alerted when someone deletes a document
8. Use Quick Links to navigate to other URL’s
9. Create a secure location only limited people can access
10. Display a calendar
11. Create a form to start a process
12. Create a mega menu to help people navigate your sites
13. Display a dynamic list of sites the person viewing the page
14. Show a filter list of documents needing action by the person viewing the list
15. Show or hide things base on audience
16. Create a custom theme to match your company brand
17. Search for content
18. Display a PowerPoint slide in a page
19. Insert YouTube and Stream videos into pages
20. Create page templates to keep layouts consistent
21. Connect sites to a Hub so they share a common theme and navigation
22. Create business processes by combining Power Automate and SharePoint
23. Embed a Microsoft Form in a page to collect feedback
24. Use Embed code to show another website inside a SharePoint page
25. Use JSON to format List items
26. Create custom Search result templates
27. Set default metadata values using calculations
28. Install Learning Pathways to get free training material
29. Use the Lookbook for inspiration and then install the templates you like
30. Create custom search pages with Office PnP Modern Search Web-parts
31. Insert PowerBI reports into SharePoint pages
32. Create Site Design templates to automatically preconfigured create sites
33. Use Content Types to manage metadata
34. Link document templates to the Document Library New button
35. Create an Organisation Asset library so your images are available in the image picker
36. Use People columns to assign and track roles in processes
37. Restore deleted items from the Site Recycle Bin
38. Add Tabs in Microsoft Teams to quickly access Libraries
39. Give some people read access will allowing others to edit
40. Use Quick Parts to inject metadata from SharePoint into Office documents
41. Create dynamic pages using filters and metadata
42. Manage controlled documents with versioning and approvals
43. Sync a document library to work offline
44. Use SharePoint Lists to get organised and share information
45. Use the SharePoint Mobile App to create and access content
46. Apply labels for content retention policies
47. Geolocate sites to different data centres globally
48. Create custom solutions using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
49. Use SharePoint Lists as a data source for your PowerApps
50. Have a career for over a decade because you took the time to learn all these things

There is more to come, check out the SharePoint Roadmap to see what’s new!

It’s only another 50 years until I am 100, so I would appreciate some help! Please post your contributions to the next 50 items in the comments below 🙂