Using OneDrive for excess SharePoint storage

A number of my clients have being exceeding their SharePoint storage. Usually due to natural sprawl but often due to Microsoft defaults such as versioning. Versioning can be fix although touching each file to delete the unwanted versions is a mite unpleasant and time consuming. Natural sprawl is however difficult to overcome. Microsoft's new archive...

Introduction to the SPFX Dev Environment series

Articles in the SPFX Dev Environment series Welcome to my self-help series about getting started with SharePoint Framework development. Half the motivation for this blog series is a little selfish. As a consultant I'm always building or re-building my development environments. Its one of my least favourite tasks but essential to get right to avoid...

Applying access to the Everyone except external ‘group’ in SharePoint via PowerShell

I'm frequently creating collaboration environments in SharePoint nOnline where admins need the environment locked heavily down. Usually to protect users from themselves and Microsoft's feature bloat of useful features that will give an enterprise admin sleepless nights. A common request is locking down the ability for normal business site owners from being able to edit...

Deleting old Teams

I worked on a project recently where a business needed to migrate content from their Teams and SharePoint environments into a new tenancy and importantly delete the content from the source tenancy as that part of the business had been sold and they wanted to ensure their intellectual property was retained. Pretty easy content migration. My...

MS Forms user management

Sometimes its necessary for employees to leave a business quickly and importantly without any handover. In most cases we can get around the issues however I recently come across a user who was responsible for a lot of Microsoft Forms. Most of the forms had been created using best practice and owned by a service/generic...

Missing ellipsis edit menu

Restoring the ellipsis menu on a document library.

Deploying a SPFx solution to production

Unfortunately I don't get to write as much SPFx code as I used to and I'm really only updating my own TilesPlus solution (not yet ready to share) so I'm always needing to lookup the correct commands to build and package shippable solutions. So this post is more for my own benefit but if someone...

Speeding up changes to search in M365/SharePoint Online

So you've just made some changes to search in M365 and now you're on your 5th coffee waiting for the new vertical to appear in the UI. Wait no more. Simply append the following to your search URL to clear the cache so you can get on with developing your search solution. &cacheClear=true

Opening PDF’s from SharePoint into a new browser tab

I've had a number of clients recently ask how to force SharePoint to open PDF's into their own tab. Surprising this is not something that is immediately easy to achieve. Each client had their own very different reasons for needing this capability but I figure its probably a common request and worth sharing the solution....

Copying a document library in SharePoint Online

A simple task? It used to be in traditional on-prem SharePoint and Classic sites but in SharePoint Online the templating option is not available in Modern SharePoint/Communication sites. So what can we do now? If you've been keeping up with the SharePoint metaverse then you're aware that document libraries are just lists (of documents -...

Home site error: Site on hold

When a retention policy gets in the way of enabling home sites.