Four ways to update a term in the SharePoint Term Store programmatically — SharePoint’s own REST API, Microsoft Graph, plain JavaScript, and PnPjs — and what actually differs between them beyond “which one is easiest.” In this post: Option 1: SharePoint REST API · Option 2: Microsoft Graph · Option 3: plain JavaScript · Option […]
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’s built-in Copy Files feature moves or duplicates files between libraries — same site or across sites — without needing a third-party tool. It’s the right call for routine content distribution; whether it’s the right call for a bulk migration is a different question, covered below alongside the automated alternatives. In this post: What affects
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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 keeps every prior version of a file, but the built-in UI only shows you version history one file at a time. If you need it for an audit, a bulk export, or to check who changed what across a whole library, you’re pulling it with a script instead of clicking through the interface. Three
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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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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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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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