Grant Permissions to All Communication Sites Associated with a Hub Site

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…

Showing the Intranet’s Link in the App Bar’s Global Navigation

Here’s a quick tip to improve your Global Navigation for the new SharePoint App Bar. From what I’ve seen, most organizations will use the Hub or global navigation for the App Bar’s home link – which is the Global Nav. The root site of the tenant should be a Home Site and also a Hub…

Poor Person’s Form Embedding in SharePoint Online Pages

In SharePoint – because it’s primarily a collaboration platform – we often struggle with the difference between security and obscurity. Some content absolutely must be secured, meaning only certain people can see or edit it. In these cases, we set the permissions such that people simply can’t see or even be aware of the content….

Adding Conditional Formatting for a List Form Header with JSON

The recently added capability to perform simple layout changes on a SharePoint list form using JSON is the bee’s knees. As is the case with many insect joints, the examples out there mostly are the same and the documentation isn’t full featured enough for most people’s taste. Sue Hanley (@SusanHanley) and I were working on…