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…
This isn’t rocket science, but it’s something I do often enough that I want to lodge the PowerShell in a post instead of continuing to rewrite it. When we are building an Intranet, we often want to grant permissions for all the Communication Sites to a small set of people during the testing process. This…