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SharePoint On-Premises Limitations : What you need to know

Worth a direct correction before the numbers themselves: “15 concurrent workflows per content database” doesn’t appear anywhere in Microsoft’s own current software boundaries documentation for SharePoint Server. The real, verified workflow constraint is a rate limit (activations per second per web server), not a fixed concurrency cap. This post keeps the genuinely accurate numbers from

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SharePoint PowerShell Commands: Common Snippets

A reference set of PowerShell cmdlets for day-to-day SharePoint administration: site/list management, users and permissions, metadata reporting, and on-prem backup/restore. Covers both PnP PowerShell (recommended for Online and on-prem alike) and the native SharePoint Online module. In this post: Setup and connecting · Connecting unattended, for scheduled scripts · Site collection and site management ·

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SharePoint Sync Limitations: What You Need to Know

Worth a direct correction before anything else: the “one work or school account per device” limit that gets repeated for OneDrive sync is genuinely outdated. Current OneDrive sync supports one personal account plus up to nine work or school accounts simultaneously on the same Windows device (macOS is more restrictive, limited to one business account

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SharePoint Retention Period: What You Need to Know

SharePoint Retention Period is a policy-driven feature, part of Microsoft Purview, that controls how long content is kept before it’s deleted or archived. It’s how you actually enforce a retention rule instead of relying on someone remembering to clean up old files. In this post: The three pieces · Why it matters · Retention labels

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SharePoint Audit Trail: What You Need to Know

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: Everything You Need to Know

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 Inactive Users in SharePoint: What You Need to Know

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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Microsoft Graph: Everything You Need to Know

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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