In modern SharePoint, we have content management tools which have been honed over decades of SharePoint use. At the same time, our ideas about content management have evolved over that time. People are far more comfortable maintaining content on the Web than they were when SharePoint first was released. Back then, we were often transitioning…
I shot myself in the foot today and I figured I’d share how I bandaged it back up. In actual fact, the healing was automagical. We had a Microsoft Team with its usual backing SharePoint site, and we wanted to reclaim the URL from that SharePoint site. This isn’t an unusual occurrence when there isn’t…
When you create a Team Site in SharePoint, you have an option to set the Team Site as: Public – anyone in the organization can access this site, or Private – only members can access this site Many people don’t know what the effect this setting has – I need to remind myself from time…
One of the cool things you can do from a canvas Power App is call a Power Automate flow. This is a great way to do something simple – like sending an email – or many more complex things you might want to trigger from the Power App. Many have written about how to implement…
One of my clients who doesn’t have a blog came up with a good fix the other day. Since he didn’t have a place to put it, he offered it to me to post. Have you ever deleted a Content Type from the Content Type Hub which you had previously published – without unpublishing it…
This is a simple little thing, but one I just couldn’t figure out for the longest time. When that happens, I like to fall on my sword in case it helps someone else. One of my clients had a view like this in several of their lists – and yes, I’ve blurred the last names…
As our tenants evolve, we end up renaming sites and/or changing their URLs. When we change the URL of a site in the SharePoint Admin Center, the URL changes, just like we asked. SharePoint also leaves the old site in place, but converts it into a Redirect Site. So if we had a site at…
When we use SharePoint lists as data sources for Power BI, there are all sorts of tricks and gotchas. As with any rapidly evolving technology, some of the tricks we find on the InterWebs are helpful, some are out or date, and some are just plain wrong. Recently I ran into a confusing issue when…
Another day, another chunk of PowerShell. Sometimes when we iteratively build out our information architecture, we’re over-zealous. It seems like we need a set of Site Columns to maintain metadata on lists or libraries, but in the end, we decide we want to trim away a few of the Site Columns we’ve created. Or, maybe…
Have I ever mentioned how important Content Types are in SharePoint? Almost everything you work with in SharePoint has a Content Type. If you’re just using Document and Item, you’re really not using the platforms. In this post, I want to talk about Site Content Types and the Location column type. Location Columns Sometime in…