Tag Archives: Office 365

Microsoft 365 SharePoint Archive: deep dive

Microsoft announced SharePoint Archive in 2023 and make the feature generally available in Apr 2024. Though there are good Microsoft’s articles on how to enable and configure SharePoint Archive, as well as some FAQ pages, there are still a lot of questions regarding behavior details, e.g. I have just activated the feature and I’m planning […]

You cannot use Power BI to visualize this list issue

If you are working with SharePoint Online list and select Integrate – Power BI – Visualize the list, but it gives you error message “You cannot use Power BI to visualize this list”, “Looks like the feature for visualizing lists is turned off. Please contact your admin to enable this feature”: The issue appears to […]

Using Path property in Microsoft 365 Search Query

Using Path property in Microsoft 365 Search Query was kind of ambiguous. But now Microsoft implemented update and clarified some details. So below are some tips and tricks on filtering by site Url (path) in query field in Microsoft 365 Search verticals. Path filter with trailing slash (“/”) In November 2022 Microsoft rolled out an […]

SharePoint Sites Lookup

That’s a very common problem in SharePoint world. You are looking for a site owner but there is no tool available for regular user to find who owns the site. Scenarios. You get a link to some SharePoint site, but you do not have access to it. You requested access but nobody has responded. You […]

PowerShell scripts for Microsoft 365 SharePoint

After many years working with SharePoint I wrote a lot of PowerShell scripts that help me support, troubleshoot, administer and secure SharePoint. So I’m sharing my scripts with you. It’s here: https://github.com/VladilenK/Manage-m365-with-PowerShell

Manage result layouts for SharePoint results in Microsoft Search

Microsoft is improving Search (MC489165): Manage result layouts for SharePoint results in Microsoft Search We’re making changes to Microsoft Search. This update will allow Microsoft Search administrators to change result layouts for select SharePoint content using adaptive cards with Result Type feature in Microsoft Search administration. The default result layouts for SharePoint sites, pages, list […]

clearCache or cacheClear

Each time we need to validate a recent change in Microsoft Search configuration, we need to use query parameter that clears cache, and each time I’m not sure is it clearCache or cacheClear 🙂 So, correct is “cacheClear=true”, e.g: https://www.office.com/search/sites?auth=2&cacheClear=true&q=bird* Reference:

Microsoft 365 SharePoint: prevent throttling with RateLimit headers

Bert Jansen (Microsoft) revealed some details on throttling when you access Microsoft 365 programmatically – via Microsoft Graph or CSOM and guided developers on how to regulate request traffic for optimized throughput using RateLimit headers (Here). Demystifying SharePoint throttling Throttling is necessary to ensure that no single user or application consumes too many resources compromising […]