☕ SharePoint Tip #30 — Your SharePoint Expert Checklist: you made it!

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Good morning! Here is your final 15-minute SharePoint tip.

Day 30 | Course Complete — Your SharePoint Expert Checklist

Congratulations — you made it! 🎉

Thirty days ago you were new to SharePoint Online. Today you are a confident, credible SharePoint Product Owner. Let’s take stock of everything you now know.

Your SharePoint Expert Checklist

Use this as a self-assessment. Tick every item you can confidently explain or do:

Platform Foundations

  • ☐ Explain what SharePoint Online is and how it fits in Microsoft 365
  • ☐ Describe the 5 core building blocks: tenant, site collection, site, library, list
  • ☐ Explain the difference between team sites and communication sites
  • ☐ Configure a document library with versioning, metadata columns, and views
  • ☐ Explain how OneDrive for Business relates to SharePoint
  • ☐ Explain what happens in SharePoint when a Teams team is created
  • ☐ Use the SharePoint search with KQL queries

Administration & Security

  • ☐ Navigate the SharePoint Admin Center and find key settings
  • ☐ Configure external sharing policies appropriately for your organisation
  • ☐ Explain sensitivity labels and DLP policies and their user impact
  • ☐ Define retention policies aligned with legal requirements
  • ☐ Explain Conditional Access and unmanaged device policies
  • ☐ Read the SharePoint audit log to investigate an incident

Integration & Automation

  • ☐ Build or specify a basic Power Automate approval flow on SharePoint
  • ☐ Explain when to use Power Apps vs native SharePoint
  • ☐ Explain what the Microsoft Graph API is at a conceptual level
  • ☐ Plan a file server migration using the four-phase approach
  • ☐ Identify the top migration pitfalls and their mitigations

Product Owner Mastery

  • ☐ Write a well-formed SharePoint user story with acceptance criteria
  • ☐ Prioritise a SharePoint backlog using MoSCoW or impact/effort matrix
  • ☐ Define and track 5 SharePoint adoption KPIs
  • ☐ Build a 3-horizon 6-month SharePoint roadmap
  • ☐ Design a SharePoint governance policy including site lifecycle rules
  • ☐ Run a SharePoint Champions programme
  • ☐ Present a monthly SharePoint health report to stakeholders
  • ☐ Explain how Copilot uses SharePoint and prepare your environment for AI

What to do next

  1. Take a Microsoft certification — MS-900 as a minimum, MS-102 for admin depth
  2. Join the Microsoft Tech Community — follow the SharePoint blog for monthly feature updates
  3. Set a weekly 30-minute learning block — Microsoft Learn, YouTube (SharePoint Maven), Tech Community
  4. Keep coming back to Claude — ask questions, explore features, simulate stakeholder conversations, practice user story writing

A final thought

SharePoint expertise is not a destination — it’s a practice. Microsoft releases new SharePoint features every single month. The platform you know today will be different in six months. The best SharePoint Product Owners are not the ones who memorised everything — they’re the ones who stay curious, keep learning, and always connect the technology back to what users actually need.

You have all the foundations. Now go build something great.

Thank you for 30 days of learning. This is the final post in your SharePoint Online 30-day series. Continue your journey at learn.microsoft.com and come back to Claude anytime you need a training partner.

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