Category Archives: Software

Microsoft Forms Troubleshooting

So far some findings I came up with after several Microsoft forms troubleshooting sessions… I’ll keep all the gotchas here as “how to” guide for myself. I’d be glad if this also helps you troubleshoot your Microsoft forms. Microsoft forms links You know, a user can create a Microsoft form. Then user can share it. […]

Ownerless groups and dependent channels

Here is the scenario: There is a team (including SharePoint site) under Microsoft Teams. There are multiple channels under this team with types:– standard channel– shared channel – private channel A single group owner (team owner) leaves company and the team (group) becomes ownerless. Question: what will happen with private and shared channels? A group […]

Archiving SharePoint Sites

What is archiving SharePoint sites and why we’d need it? Disclaimer: Archival that was announced at Microsoft Inspire 2023 (Introducing Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive) is not what we are discussing here.Though it might be considered as an option (as archived sites are still visible for admins but not visible for users), MS […]

Ownerless group policy configuration failed

If you are seeing “Ownerless group policy configuration failed” and “Please try again.” error message: there might be some different reasons: Note: Groups admin when configuring the policy can see warning message “You don’t have permissions to save changes”. No worries 🙂 => You will be able to save changes 🙂 Video tutorial on the […]

MS Graph usage reports: Site vs Team vs Group activity

Microsoft Graph provides very useful reports via MS graph reports API: Also we know, that Teams sites are group-based, and you can have private and shared channels under Teams – but these sites are not actually group-based and there are group-based SharePoint sites with no Teams behind. And activities might be different – update document […]

How to create an old document in SharePoint

Sometimes, mostly during PoC or testing policies like retention policy or lifecycle policy you would need some documents created and updated weeks, months or even years ago. But if you create or upload a document in SharePoint library – it will be just a regular new document. So, how to get old documents in the […]

Manage Microsoft 365 groups membership with PowerShell and Graph API

As SharePoint or Teams admin you manage Microsoft 365 groups (create, update, delete, manage membership etc.) having your admin role activated. I prefer PowerShell 7 and Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module, and I need an Azure registered app with “Group.ReadWrite.All” Microsoft Graph API delegated permission. Some findings: If a user was not a group member or group […]