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 […]
Though search in Microsoft 365 SharePoint is good out-of-the box and you can do a full-text search and refine your results by “File type” and “Last modified”, but what if you want your content be tagged with your custom metadata (e.g. “Article category”), and you want to be able to refine your search results based […]
If you think you have a lot of duplicated files that consumes your hard drive storage space, this article is for you. Personally, I have a lot of video and pictures on my working hard drive and on a backup HDD. While working with photos and videos I can rename files, copy or move them […]
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 […]
Governance in IT is establishing rules, policies, tools and practices that helps you manage and protect your enterprise resources. SharePoint governance (or wider – Collaboration governance) covers References
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 […]
If you need to update a SharePoint site title (site name) programmatically (e.g. with PowerShell), and if this site is a group-based site (e.g. Microsoft Teams team site or Viva Engage community site or…) – you should not update SharePoint site title, but you should update group display name instead. Here is why. In Microsoft […]
Below is how I authenticate and call Microsoft Graph API to work with SharePoint from Python application. Plain no MSAL or Azure libraries used: secrets is a Python file where I assign client secret to variable clientSc (so my secret is not shared on github). This is ok for demo purposes but generally, you should […]