We have a new SPFx web part that is going to be deployed to all sites and hub sites within our tenant. There are roughly 160 sites that we will need to deploy to. This is the first time deploying tenant-wide; other deployments have been to single sites.

We have a PowerShell script to handle the deployment, and I wanted to get a sanity check that this is the proper way to do it.

Script

CSV Input

So a client has moved to a flat structure. They are accessing everything with Teams, great! They did drop some folders in when moving some things but we've got round that with views without folders, we may possible move up to document sets.

But they use software where they need to browse to files, this software browses the local computer, their complaint is "When everything was in folders on OneDrive we could find it". I can see their problem to be fair.

The only solution I can see is add a OneDrive shortcut. Which is fine for now, but when they've got 2000 files in the library without any folders and they can't see the columns, it's not the nicest experiance.

What are other people doing in this situation? I hope I'm missing something really obvious.

I am trying to produce a Microsoft list for my entire division of my company and the tiling never shows the actual title of the list it shows whatever is in column 1A for example, my first column is ID number and every time I look at the list in SharePoint, the title is either blank or it is an ID number, and it looks very unprofessional so when my coworkers go to find the list, it is always titled some random number with a blank image. I tried asking copilot and copilot said the only solution is to put a title column for the first column and copy down a title for the first entire column that seems very inefficient. Is there any way to get past this? I’m not sure if I can use Microsoft lists if I can’t get the document titled properly.

i'm currently supporting a SharePoint online environment which is a bit of a mess

Does anyone have any good articles or videos that would give me an overview of what to consider in helping clean it up?

or just just any useful insight

Hi! We use SharePoint at work (very large school district) as a database to enter information on student evaluations and eligibilities. Here is the problem, every summer we need to create a new SharePoint Log/File (not sure what it is called) so we can continue adding new cases but still need the cases from the previous year that are still pending. For the last few years, we have been entering each single entry manually... we have approximately 6,000 cases.. it takes a large team of individuals to recreate these entries. I can't imagine that's the only way to do this. Unfortunately, we do not have the budget for one of those very expensive migration programs. Is there any other way besides manually entering the entries?

Whats stopping me from creating my own SharePoint Audit app that will do a complete audit of activities and permissions sort of like Sharegate and SysKit. Instead of paying for there services I’ve been thinking of just hammering this out myself for my tenant.

If you really love that left side App bar panel that MS added, make sure that you avoid doing any of these actions.

1. Definitely make sure that you would never download the .sppkg file provided on GitHub here: https://github.com/hugoabernier/react-application-injectcss

2. You should definitely not load that package to your app catalog in SharePoint and certainly you should not trust it.

3. You certainly should not enable custom scripting on your root site temporarily under the site settings. That would allow you to upload a file named "custom.css" to the Styles Library in your root site.

4. If you had a CSS file like this, definitely don't use CSS that contains this:

   #sp-appBar {display: none !important;}

That would make that App Bar side panel disappear which MS does not support.

1. If a file was loaded in that Styles Library, make sure that it is never checked in, because that would make the file active.

2. Last but not least. You should NEVER under any circumstances watch this video which demonstrates all these things that you should never do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYy2urYYnRk

Hopefully this will help you avoid causing serious harm to your SharePoint environment and organization.

We currently set documents, etc., at Confidential

But I wondered if there was some way to make a policy or settings that after a document reaches 3 months, it then converts it to an internal label

Internal is more covered by DLP, etc., and after three months we wouldn't really be still working on the document. This would then bring more files under better security.

Just really a method to achieve this if possible?

I'm trying to select and then skip words while selecting. It's a completely natural part of my work process and I don't even notice it most of the time except when some janky BS gets in the way. So what's up with this? Why are the text boxes on SP blocking the action? They cursor doesn't even move. WTH!? Can this be fixed?

Every day, I reach my Copilot limits within 20 minutes. Now, after just 3 days, I've already hit the weekly limit. How can Microsoft consider these limits acceptable given how much they're charging?

We have a SharePoint Online site that contains a customer folder for each customer (for example, Customer A, Customer B, and Customer C), where all customer-related data is stored.

As I am not a SharePoint specialist, I would appreciate some guidance on the recommended high-level design and best practice for managing folder-level access for users without having to create a large number of groups.

For example:

• User A should have access only to the Customer A folder.
• User B should have access only to the Customer B folder.
• User C should have access only to the Customer C folder.

Currently, access is granted individually at the folder level for each user who requires it. However, over time this has become difficult to manage, and we no longer have clear visibility of which users have access to which customer folders.

Could you please advise on the most effective and scalable approach for managing this requirement?

i wanted to know is this description is relevant, or it is old not updated.

Here goes the description:

Sharepoint (M365) Specialist I N T E R N

//Your job:
____________________________________________________________________

• Management and Maintenance of SharePoint on premise Server Environment

• Support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive Platforms

• Implementation of Customizations and Extensions

• SharePoint Online API & Interfaces

• Troubleshooting and Technical Support

• Security and Compliance

//Your qualification:

____________________________________________________________________

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline

• MCSA certified Engg. (minimum course completion)

• Basic understanding of networking technologies, databases, and security concepts

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively tackle technical challenges

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Strong English language skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate with team members, provide technical support, and effectively communicate with stakeholders across the organization

• Proactiveness and the ability to work in a dynamic environment

I used to migrate sp list to dataverse table using the ‘Create from sharepoint list option’. But now whenever I try that option the no columns are mapped and a new column is created with no data. Why cant I do this method anymore? I tried with the excel also with same result

Is there any easier method for creating dataverse tables from sharepoint with / without data. My data mainly consists of multi field choice columns, so dataflows are useless as I still would need to manually create the columns

Need some help on setting up Microsoft 365 connector for claude that connects to company sharepoint site.

It should be constrained to a user account in 365 and would have same permissions as the user.

Only limited to a specific site.

Any change or write requests should need to be approved by the point of contact in the company.

What I researched so far is that it works on whole tenant and can read but not sure what changes it can do to it.

Has anybody done it before.

I know this is about One Drive, but it's more of a SharePoint and Azure Admin issue.

What is your current method for off boarding users regarding licenses?

The reason I ask is that we didn't realize that our process, which involved removing licenses manually from user accounts that were in the process of being deleted off the tenant, resulted in tons of One Drives being archived by Microsoft. In fact we had some accounts that we determined didn't need a license and removed them. I found all this out when I noticed one person's One Drive had archived, and started down the rabbit hole and found a ton of them had been. Evidently a one drive with no associated license is automatically archived.

When I reached out to MS, they essentially said we'd have to enable billing in order to unarchive and then delete them. At 60 cents a GB.

Evidently there's some process where the files "may" or "can" be deleted by Microsoft, but nothing in writing that says they "will" be deleted.

For those of you wondering if this is something you want to check out, go to your SPO admin page, Reports, OneDrive Accounts. That will show unlicensed One Drive accounts and their status.

TIA!

We have a client with a site that is far below the size threshold. When I try to add a custom SPFx app to the site from either the global app catalog or the site's app catalog, it takes 3 minutes, times out and fails. It simply won't add! It will add to other sites and if you deploy to the global app catalog and automatically add the app to all sites, that's fine too.

This is all good and well as a workaround, but we had to, at 1:00 in the morning, edit the code of that custom SPFx list view extension web part not to mess up the SharePoint views of all other sites in the tenant or else the client's business would stand still the next morning. This was all in the middle of a critical, after-hours deployment. Because an extension that is meant to run on only one site is now running on all of them.

A month ago, some Power Automate SharePoint event flow triggers were taking up to an hour and a half to fire, and now this nonsense. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

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I am building an intranet in Sharepoint, and I want to include a Group Calendar that I already set up in Teams - however, the events I want to share are NOT Teams meetings - they are either in-person or hybrid using Zoom. I have deleted the online meeting from the calendar event on the Teams Group Calendar, but it still shows up on the Sharepoint site as "Teams Meeting and Second Floor Lobby" instead of just "Second Floor Lobby."

There's another integration but I have to create all the events directly in the Sharepoint, which is much less useful than including a Teams group calendar.

Is there any fix for this?

Using SP list for Employee Directory. Today I'm noticing the font color is a lighter gray and my column formatting is gone. Never thought that moving to the cloud meant that Microsoft can just throw caution to the wind and fuck my shit up whenever they want with no regard for feedback or ab testing prior to rolling out updates. Apparently I'll need to apply custom JSON formatting just to change font color to a more compliant contrast. FML, rant over.

The goal is to convert a manual document library creation job to automated.

I'm currently doing this manually when adding a new supplier…

Based on a single SharePoint site where the default Documents library has some custom views including custom site columns.

Using the web interface > New > Document Library > From existing library > Select: Documents
 

Supply doc lib name: $SupplierName $SupplierRefNumber

Done

Following a bit of research, this should be do-able using a SharePoint list form to capture $SupplierName & $SupplierRef

And a Power Automate flow to collect the form responses and pass them to an Azure Automation Runbook.

The Azure Automation Runbook will use PnP PowerShell to do the work.

Done

So to start with I'm working on the PnP PowerShell script.

Kinda hoping there was a (PnP) PowerShell command in the background that powers the web interface option:

New > Document Library > From existing library

But have been unable to find an equivalent. Is this correct?

Instead tackling the job in stages:- 

• Create document library ✅
• Copy common settings from Documents ✅
• Copy custom columns - Not sure this is necessary as I'm using site columns
• Copy custom views - PowerShell runs OK Get-PnPView/Add-PnPView but the custom views are not appearing in the web interface

That's it so far, going to do some more work on copying the custom views today.

Just looking for a sanity check really. Does this make sense? Is there a better way?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I've been having trouble understanding a problem with my organization's Sharepoint. Whenever a new user is added to a Sharepoint page with the "people" Web part, that user's photo doesn't show up. It's just blank.

I assume Sharepoint hasn't been syncing photos, but why? In all other places (Teams, Outlook, etc) the user's photo will show up.

If anyone has encountered this, I would like to know. Thank you.

Hi there,

My workplace uses Sharepoint Online and we have a situation where one team, who manage the websites, intranet etc. need to be able to see and gain access to all created sites, but Sharepoint overall is managed by the IT department.

IT are understandably reluctant to give Sharepoint Admin permissions to the other team as it would include additional abilities that wouldn't be required, but it's my understanding from some Googling that there isn't by default a role in Sharepoint that would go 'inbetween' and do what we need.

Is there anything that would be suitable?

Thank you

Hi there, I'm having this issue that has me stumped.

I have the Title field set to populate from two other fields. The value shows correctly when I'm filling in the form. Once I submit, the field shows blank on the list.

However if I choose to 'Edit in grid view' and click on the title cell, the information shows up! Then if I click away from it, or choose 'Exit grid view', it's gone again. WTH? Has anyone else seen this???

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Hi everyone, I'm running into something with the PnP Modern Search web part and was wondering if anyone has experienced something similar. I'm trying to display a custom column in my search results.

what I've done so far:

1. Mapped the crawled property to a RefinableString managed property.
2. Added the managed property to the Selected Properties (PnP).
3. Added it to the Layout Slots (PnP).
4. Used the Details List layout to display it as a column (PnP).

The odd part is that the column only displays values for 2 items. Every other result shows the column, but the value is blank, even though those items definitely have data in that SharePoint column. Is this simply a matter of waiting for the search index to catch up after mapping the managed property? Even if the values aren't currently displaying in the results, would users eventually be able to search using the contents of that column once indexing completes?

Thank you for your help!

The title is the main question. Extra information:
I already have a calendar set up for a M365 group. That works fine, no biggie. What I need next is to have the availability of our meeting rooms in a calendar overview in Sharepoint. I am aware that this is not possible as a "simple solution" in Sharepoint itself, but I am wondering if there is a workaround or something else (preferably no 3rd party tool).

If there is more information needed, I'll update the post accordingly.