SharePoint’s audit trail tracks who accessed, changed, shared, or deleted content, and when. It’s what you actually pull up when someone asks “who touched this file” or an audit needs a record of access history. In this post: Four ways to get at it · Which -Operations value to actually use · Pulling more than
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SharePoint and OneDrive both run on the same underlying storage, but they’re built for different jobs. SharePoint for shared team/organizational content, OneDrive for individual work. Mixing them up is the most common source of “why can’t my team find this file” complaints. In this post: What happens when someone leaves · Extending the 30-day window
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Exporting a list of inactive users is mostly a housekeeping task. Unused accounts are a security and licensing cost, and this is how you actually find them instead of guessing. In this post: Via PowerShell · Via the admin center (no scripting) · Third-party tools · LastSignInDateTime is lying to you, a little · Actually
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If you’ve ever had to juggle separate APIs for Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and Azure AD just to build one integration, Microsoft Graph is the fix for that specific headache. One endpoint, one auth model, most of Microsoft 365 behind it. Here’s what it actually covers, how to authenticate against it properly, and where people usually
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“SharePoint Administration” covers a wider scope than most overviews of it actually describe. It’s not one role but a delegated Entra ID role with a specific, bounded scope, a dedicated admin center, and, as of 2026, a genuinely current governance layer on top of both that most administrators haven’t fully explored yet. This post skips
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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 be
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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 runs
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SharePoint Document Versioning automatically saves iterations of a document as it changes, so you can see who changed what and restore an earlier version if something goes wrong. In this post: Enabling versioning · Managing version history · List item versioning · What “restore” actually does · Intelligent Versioning: automatic trimming · How many versions
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SharePoint ships with ten built-in permission levels (Full Control down to Restricted Read) covering most access-control scenarios without needing a custom permission level. Here’s what each one actually grants, and how to assign them via PowerShell in both SharePoint Online and on-premises. In this post: The ten built-in permission levels · Assigning a role in
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A Document Set groups multiple related files (with shared metadata, a shared welcome page, and versioning that treats them as one unit) instead of a loose folder where nothing ties the files together conceptually. In this post: Prerequisites · What you actually get over a plain folder · Creating a Document Set · Permissions and
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