Tag Archives: SharePoint

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 […]

The site is archived

Microsoft recently (Apr 2024) announced general availability for it’s new SharePoint Archive feature (learn more). So if you are seeing “The site is archived” and “A SharePoint Administrator archived this site. If you need access, ask an admin to reactivate it.” error message and the page in your browser is “sharepointerror.aspx?scenario=SiteArchived” then… guess what… your […]

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 […]

SPO Site LastContentModifiedDate vs LastItemModifiedDate vs LastItemUserModifiedDate vs Graph LastModifiedDateTime

How do we know when the SharePoint site was last updated? We have multiple “when the site was modified last time” properties – e.g. some we can retrieve with SharePoint CSOM: Also we can get On the other hand – we can view and modify site in multiple ways – visit site home page, open […]

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

Get all SharePoint and Teams sites owners report with PowerShell

This PowerShell script pulls all tenant sites and all sites owners. The script require app authentication with Sites.FullControl.All and Directory.Read.All permissions. PnP.PowerShell for PowerShell 7 is used. The script generates two reports Here is the script: Source code: 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 […]