SharePoint Online really only has two primary site types — Team Sites and Communication Sites — and picking the wrong one early means a rebuild later, not a quick setting change. In this post: Team Sites · Communication Sites · Beyond the two types · Why the rebuild warning is real · Permissions work differently […]
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Four real ways to share files in SharePoint, and when each one actually fits: Direct links: generate a view-only or edit link, optionally with an expiration date and password. Best for a quick one-off share, not for ongoing collaboration structure. Managed document libraries: structure permissions at the library level instead of sharing individual files. Better
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Worth flagging directly before anything else: neither of the two role-assignment examples that usually accompany this topic will actually run against a fresh list or library — both skip breaking permission inheritance first, which SharePoint requires before it accepts a role assignment at all. This post covers the built-in roles, the real numeric IDs behind
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SharePoint archiving moves less-frequently-accessed content to secondary storage while keeping it available when needed — other SharePoint sites, external storage, or a third-party tool. The point is keeping the active environment fast without losing anything. In this post: Why it matters · The four approaches · Microsoft 365 Archive: the native option · What can’t
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List attachments keep a file tied directly to a specific item — a screenshot on a bug, a resume on a candidate record — without setting up a separate document library. This covers uploading, reading, and deleting them with PnP.js inside a React-based SPFx component, plus batching when you’re handling more than one file at
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SharePoint attachments — files uploaded directly onto a list item, not into a document library — are common in forms and ticketing-style lists. Here’s how to create, read, and delete them with plain JavaScript against the REST API, no PnPjs required. In this post: Uploading an attachment · Reading attachments · Downloading the actual file
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Seven real installation problems people hit with Node.js and npm, and the actual fix for each — version conflicts, permission errors, SSL/proxy issues, and the Windows-specific build-tools error that trips up more people than any of the others. In this post: Conflicting versions · Permission errors (EACCES) · SSL certificate errors · Proxy and firewall
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npm link creates a symlink between a globally-linked local package and another project, so you can develop a package and test it live in a consuming project without publishing it to the registry first. In this post: Worked example: building a custom Gulp plugin · The gotcha to know about · Confirming what actually got
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Gulp is a JavaScript task runner built on Node.js streams — it automates repetitive front-end tasks instead of you running them by hand every time. Gulp CLI is the separate package that lets you actually run those tasks from the terminal with a plain gulp taskname, instead of writing a Node script to invoke Gulp’s
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: the “indexed column” PowerShell example that circulates for this topic (`Set-PnPListItem` with a value) doesn’t create an index at all — it just sets a field’s value on one item, something entirely different. This post covers the real mechanism for indexing a column, the real cap that mechanism
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