Power Automate is deceptively easy to start with — drag a few actions together, connect some services, and you have a working process without writing much code. That’s exactly why it gets adopted fast, and also why its rough edges tend to surface late: a flow that works perfectly with 10 test records can start […]
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Strengthen your Entra ID setup with Identity Secure Score In this post: What is Identity Secure Score? · Where to find it · Why it’s worth checking · How the score is actually calculated · Tracking the trend with PowerShell · Getting alerted when it drops · When would you actually use this? · Best
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The real deciding factor between a tenant-wide app catalog and a site collection app catalog isn’t governance philosophy — it’s one hard technical constraint that makes the decision for you in a specific, common scenario: only the tenant app catalog can sync an SPFx solution to the Microsoft Teams app store. Everything else genuinely is
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KQL (Keyword Query Language) is what SharePoint and Microsoft Search actually parse behind a search box — keywords, managed properties, and operators that let you ask for exactly what you mean instead of hoping full-text matching gets there on its own. In this post: What KQL actually does · Where you’ll actually write it ·
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SPFx (SharePoint Framework) scaffolds a fairly opinionated folder structure via its Yeoman generator — here’s what each part actually does, and the two competing ways to organize your own code inside src/ once a project grows past a single web part. In this post: The scaffolded structure · src/ and config/ in detail · Type-based
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A Calculated Column derives its value from other columns on the same item, using Excel-like formula syntax — no Power Automate flow or code required. Here are the formulas worth knowing, and the real limitations that decide when a calculated column is the wrong tool. In this post: Common formulas · Real limitations · Creating
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This is genuinely a three-way decision, not two — most comparisons of Outlook Calendar versus Microsoft Bookings skip the option that actually fits the most common individual use case best: Bookings with Me, a lightweight personal scheduling link built into Outlook that neither requires the full Bookings app nor forces external contacts to email back
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Which backend to build on — Dataverse or a SharePoint List — is one of the earlier architectural decisions in any Power Platform solution, and it’s not really a matter of preference. Dataverse handles relational data, fine-grained security, and scale that SharePoint Lists were never designed for; SharePoint Lists are already included in your M365
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Canvas or Model-Driven is the first real fork in the road for any Power Apps project, and picking wrong means either fighting the tool for the rest of the build or redesigning halfway through. The short version: Canvas gives you a blank screen and full design control; Model-Driven gives you a data model and Microsoft
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: the verification cmdlet that circulates for confirming a site collection app catalog was actually enabled — `Get-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalogsSite` — doesn’t exist. The real cmdlet is `Get-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalogs` (no trailing “Site”), and a script built around the wrong name fails with a generic “command not recognized” error that gives no hint
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