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Posts in 2025

  • Harnessing the New SharePoint Page Format

    Wednesday, February 05, 2025 in News

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    In 2024, Microsoft upgraded the internal page format for SharePoint modern pages. The new format comes with an updated page editor and new formatting capabilities. This change rolled out over the course of 2024 and now all new SharePoint pages use …

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  • Splitting a Space

    Friday, January 17, 2025 in News

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    Assume the following use case where a space needs to be split into multiple parts: “We have a Confluence space that contains information contributed by seven different teams. Each team’s content needs to be migrated to a separate …

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  • Testing WikiTraccs for Markdown

    Thursday, January 09, 2025 in News

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    This topic is part of WikiTraccs for Markdown and work in progress. Join the waitlist and start publishing Markdown to SharePoint soon The last blog post provided some background on how WikiTraccs for Markdown came to be. This blog post shows how to …

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  • Finding the Confluence Version

    Wednesday, January 08, 2025 in News

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    Time and again the question comes up: which Confluence version am I running on? One way of finding the Confluence version is as easy as scrolling down on any Confluence page. The version might be written there: If you don’t see any version …

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  • WikiTraccs for Markdown

    Friday, January 03, 2025 in News

    This topic is part of WikiTraccs for Markdown and work in progress. Join the waitlist and start publishing Markdown to SharePoint soon When demoing Confluence to SharePoint migrations with WikiTraccs, I sometimes get approached with something …

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Posts in 2024

  • Making SharePoint Tables Look Pretty

    Wednesday, December 18, 2024 in News

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    Update As of April 2025 you can merge table cells in the SharePoint page editor. Microsoft added support for that. You cannot create tables in SharePoint Online that have colored or merged cells. (The blog post could end here.) But this is not …

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  • How much time will a Confluence to SharePoint migration take?

    Saturday, December 14, 2024 in News

    The migration time depends heavily on the source content in Confluence, and the network speed, both for downloads and uploads. We’ll do some test migrations to have real-world data to look at. Summary (TL;DR) Here are the average migration …

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  • Confluence Quirks

    Saturday, November 30, 2024 in News

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    When speaking about page migrations failing, I mean the things on this page. All those tripped up page migration at some point, those are now known and worked around by WikiTraccs (where possible). This list is more like a “fun” …

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  • Good Practices for your Confluence to SharePoint Migration

    Friday, November 22, 2024 in News

    Often I get asked about best practices around Confluence to SharePoint migrations and WikiTraccs. Please note that I am not directly involved in migration projects. If there is a perfect project where the client doesn’t need my help because …

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  • Confluence Cloud Specialties

    Monday, November 18, 2024 in News

    Note This post is only relevant for Confluence Cloud. To migrate content from Confluence Cloud to SharePoint Online, WikiTraccs needs to access content in Confluence Cloud to download it. Content means page content, attachments, metadata, macro …

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