Category Archives: Software

Azure ACS retirement. How to prepare your tenant. Guide for SharePoint Admins.

Since Microsoft announced EOL of ACS in 2026, we as SharePoint administrators must be prepared, as it is a really big deal – entire era of SharePoint app-only service principals will gone. SharePoint developers used this kind of authentication since 2013 to build their solutions. And when it comes to software development – it always […]

Restricted SharePoint Search Deep Dive

Restricted SharePoint Search is a new Microsoft feature to mitigate sites oversharing issue when you are implementing Copilot. The feature is documented here, but still I have some questions, e.g.: Here I’m going to answer the questions above. So far I build a test scenario using my dev tenant that includes multiple collaborated users and […]

Granular Application Permissions to SharePoint

In 2021 Microsoft implemented “Sites.Selected” Graph API permissions to allow application access (without a signed in user) to specific sites (entire site only). In 2024 Microsoft implemented granular access – to specific list/libraries, as well as to specific documents/files and list items. Now name convention is *.SelectedOperations.Selected. Permissions come in two flavors – delegated and […]

Restricted SharePoint Search rationale

Restricted SharePoint Search is a new (2024) Microsoft 365 feature that should help Copilot and general search results be more relevant, especially in large Microsoft 365 environments. The problem background When you have a really big number of sites – it is very difficult to keep them all in a well-managed state, e.g. to have […]

New Microsoft Graph Connector service plan

Microsoft Graph connectors allow your organization to index third-party data into Microsoft Graph. Microsoft Graph connectors enable Microsoft 365 Copilot better as it has more information relevant to your organization to answer prompts. According to Microsoft, Microsoft 365 will soon include a new service plan, Graph Connectors Search with Index, offering a 50 million item […]