Where’s My SharePoint Site? Ask the `AAD to SharePoint Sync` User

Where’s My SharePoint Site? Ask the `AAD to SharePoint Sync` User

Today one of my clients had a problem. One of her SharePoint sites was missing. She found it in Deleted sites in the SharePoint Admin Center. Restoring the site from the Deleted sites is an easy fix, of course: she had already done that on her own. But none of the Site Owners or Site…

Using Content Types in SharePoint with Search-Driven User Interfaces

Using Content Types in SharePoint with Search-Driven User Interfaces

Content Types are a fundamental building block in SharePoint. Every object you upload or create in a SharePoint list or library gets a Content Type assigned to it, whether you realize it or not. If you create an item in a list, by default, it gets the Item Content Type. If you upload a file…

Pinning a Destination to Quick Access in SharePoint Online

Here’s the scenario: we have a site called Clients where we track potential clients and store files we get from them during discussions. Once they become an actual client, we create a Team Site, connect it to Teams, and we move the files into that site. For years, this has frustrated me no end because…

Using ShareGate PowerShell to Download SharePoint Content

You might be surprised by the title of this post. Isn’t our goal to get everyone’s content *into* SharePoint? Usually that’s the case, for sure. But many times, in the course of a migration from an older (usually on premises) version of SharePoint, we identify whole sites or branches of subsites that simply don’t have…