Agents in SharePoint need no activation. If your users hold a Microsoft Copilot licence, agents are already available to them, and the interesting administrative question is not how to switch them on. It is what you actually control once forty of them exist across your tenant. There are five levers. Four of them have a
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The SharePoint hosted workbench retires on 1 December 2026. SPFx v1.23.0, released 13 May 2026, was the last version to ship support for it, so the page at /_layouts/15/workbench.aspx stops being a development target in a few weeks. The replacement is not another isolated test page. It is debugging on a real modern page, with
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Restricted Content Discovery is the setting that hides a SharePoint site from Microsoft 365 search and Copilot without touching a single permission. Microsoft has been rolling out an enhanced version since late July 2026, with completion expected in late September 2026, and it closes the most confusing gap in how the feature used to behave.
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SharePoint One-Time Passcode authentication retires through October 2026. Phase 2 of the rollout starts on 1 October and is expected to complete by 31 October, and the practical result is that some external users who could open a shared file yesterday will get access denied tomorrow, with no change made on your side. The name
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SharePoint Alerts stopped working in July 2026. Not deprecated, not expiring soon. Every alert configured across every tenant stopped delivering, and there is no way to extend them. If notifications quietly went silent a couple of months ago and nobody connected it to anything, this is why. The part that catches people rebuilding: nothing was
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Project Online retires on 30 September 2026. Not “goes into read-only,” not “loses support”. The service and the data in it become permanently unreachable, with no recovery path and no extension. If you have a PWA site collection in your tenant, you have weeks, not months. There are three things to deal with before the
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The real decision isn’t “business rules are simpler, JavaScript is more powerful”. That’s true but not the part that actually determines which one a given piece of logic needs. The part that matters: an entity-scoped business rule runs on the server too, enforcing regardless of whether the record was touched through the form, the Web
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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 a
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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 · Best
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