SharePoint & Microsoft 365 Blog

How IT and security teams govern external sharing in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams: guest access, link policies, expiration, reporting, and automation.

Learn how to choose between SPFx and Power Apps for SharePoint intranet customizations with governance, ALM, security, and cost in mind over the next 5 years.

Many Microsoft 365 workflows need predictable, low-cost automation, not AI. A decision framework, an invoice scenario, and Azure and Power Automate patterns.

Use Microsoft Graph for SharePoint governance reporting and cleanup without adding security risk: safe scenarios, permissions, logging, and throttling patterns.

SharePoint and OneDrive storage growth is a governance and lifecycle problem, not just capacity. How to control storage costs without slowing teams.

SharePoint Power Automate flows often break when the owner leaves. What actually fails, and how to design ownership, environments, and connections that last.

Most Copilot rollouts fail because SharePoint content and permissions are messy, not licensing. How to get your tenant ready before turning Copilot on.

Teams meeting recordings, transcripts, Loop notes, and files are business records. How IT and compliance can govern them with sensitivity labels and retention.

Policies and contracts live as PDFs in SharePoint. How to govern sensitivity labels for PDFs, avoid protection gaps, and plan adoption with Microsoft Purview.

Learn how an SPFx permission visualizer can expose broken inheritance, direct access, external sharing, and risky SharePoint permissions faster.

Plan SharePoint document libraries for Copilot readiness with better permissions, metadata, retention, search, governance, and user adoption.

Agent 365 makes AI agents a managed capability in Microsoft 365. What IT, security, and governance teams must decide now about agent inventory and lifecycle.

Copying file share permissions into SharePoint can migrate years of access risk. Review these 7 areas before your migration or Copilot rollout.

SharePoint agents are powerful, but without governance they become AI sprawl. Learn how to approve, scope, own, and retire agents safely in Microsoft 365.

Messy SharePoint permissions hurt security, governance, search, Copilot readiness, and user trust. What IT leaders should review before and after a migration.

What IT Directors should decide before a file share to SharePoint migration: cleanup, permissions, governance, retention, ownership, and adoption.

A practical strategy for moving network drive content into OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint while improving governance, retention, permissions, and adoption.

Learn how to use SharePoint Advanced Management to control oversharing, run site access reviews, and prepare permissions before Copilot expands content access.

A Microsoft 365 automation example showing when a focused Azure Function API with OCR can be cheaper and more predictable than sending every file to AI.

An admin checklist for sensitivity labels in SharePoint Online and OneDrive: governance, external sharing, Copilot readiness, and information protection.

Microsoft Scout brings an always-on agent model to Microsoft 365. What SharePoint and IT teams should review before agents work across files and Teams.

SharePoint Online now includes a Trusted script sources page in the admin center. Learn how to add Google Tag Manager for GA4 and validate SPFx CSP behavior.

Why external sharing and permission inheritance are hard to review in SharePoint, and how I built an SPFx web part that surfaces governance risk indicators.

Microsoft is retiring standalone SharePoint Online and OneDrive plans. What to review before 2029 to avoid licensing, storage, and migration surprises.

Power Apps is moving beyond forms and CRUD apps. What SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and governance teams should know about agentic Power Apps.

SharePoint's refreshed left app bar focuses on Discover, Publish, Build, and OneDrive. What changed and why it matters for admins, intranet owners, and users.

Why SharePoint permissions get hard to manage, and how I built an open-source SPFx tool to show broken inheritance, external users, direct grants, and risk.

What SPFx developers should know for 2026: the new CLI, React 18 support, navigation customizers, list panel overrides, security updates, and how to prepare.

How to identify, manage, and clean up inactive SharePoint Online sites with policies, automation, and governance that keep your Microsoft 365 tenant healthy.

SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 reached end of support on July 14, 2026. Learn what changes now, the risks to expect, and how to plan a realistic migration.

SharePoint AI is moving from search to action: file actions, Office file creation, citation analytics, SPFx hooks. What admins and developers should prepare.

An open-source SPFx Policy Acknowledgement Center for SharePoint intranets: publish policies, collect employee acknowledgements, and track compliance.

How I run SharePoint migrations to Microsoft 365: discovery, content cleanup, information architecture, permissions, governance, and optimization.

Learn how to structure environments, solutions, source control, and releases for Power Apps and Power Automate using Azure DevOps.

Before enabling the new SharePoint experience, review navigation, governance, SPFx compatibility, intranet impact, and Copilot-readiness risks.

SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 reached end of support on July 14, 2026. Learn the risks of staying, your migration options, and how to plan the move now.

SharePoint Online's 2026 CSP enforcement breaks older GA4 tracking on modern pages. Why it happens and how to build a CSP-compliant SPFx customizer.

An open-source PowerShell toolkit for discovering, inventorying, and scoping SharePoint on-premises environments before migrating to SharePoint Online.

Introducing an open-source SPFx SharePoint Site Governance Dashboard built for governance visibility, operational review, and extensibility in Microsoft 365.

A practical SPFx 1.22 guide covering tooling, Node support, upgrade risks, and what SharePoint developers should test before shipping.

Prepare SharePoint for Microsoft 365 Copilot by reviewing permissions, stale content, ownership gaps, and information architecture.

How to plan a successful SharePoint migration in Microsoft 365: governance, information architecture, permissions, content cleanup, rollout, and adoption.

SharePoint site permissions best practices: inheritance, Microsoft 365 groups, sharing policies, least privilege, and fixing oversharing before Copilot.

SharePoint document library best practices for Microsoft 365: folders vs metadata, naming conventions, versioning, permissions, and content types that scale.

Learn how to update environment variables in Power Platform managed solutions without breaking deployments or losing configuration.

Fix the known issue where Power Automate instant cloud flows fail to trigger in non-default SharePoint environments.

Set up source control for your Power Apps canvas app by connecting it to an Azure DevOps Git repository for version tracking.

Add Google Analytics 4 tracking to your SharePoint Online site using a custom SPFx application customizer extension.

Step-by-step guide to building an interactive Bingo game in Power Apps with randomized cards and game logic.

Convert the default SharePoint Title column from a text field to a People Picker using a custom Power Apps form.

Configure Postman to authenticate with Azure AD and call SharePoint REST API endpoints for testing and development.

Build a complete inventory ordering system in Power Apps with product catalogs, cart functionality, and SharePoint integration.

Use PowerShell to audit your Microsoft 365 tenant and find all Power Automate flows that reference SharePoint or OneDrive connectors.

Resolve the Access Denied error when approving SharePoint site access requests after migration by fixing hidden list permissions.

Pass multiple file attachments from a Power Apps canvas app to a Power Automate flow for processing or email delivery.

Use Power Automate and AI Builder OCR to extract text from scanned images and automatically upload structured data to SharePoint.

Build a Power Automate flow that replicates SharePoint Content Organizer functionality for automatic document routing.

Learn how to automate testing for Power Apps canvas apps using Test Studio and Power Apps Test Engine.

Step-by-step SPFx tutorial covering Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations using React and SharePoint lists.

Learn how to connect your SharePoint Framework web part to Microsoft Graph API for accessing Microsoft 365 data.

Essential tips and best practices for planning a successful SharePoint Online migration project from start to finish.

Build dependent cascading dropdown menus in Power Apps that filter options based on the previous selection.

How to securely authenticate your SPFx solution to Microsoft Graph API using the implicit OAuth flow.

Configure custom search refiners in SharePoint Online to help users filter and find content faster across your site collection.