SharePoint Online Management Shell has its own dedicated cmdlet family for site-collection-level group operations — distinct from the PnP PowerShell cmdlets covered elsewhere on this site for adding users to an existing group. This post covers the SPO Management Shell versions specifically: creating, modifying, and removing groups, plus a couple of real gotchas that don’t […]
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: a script that connects with Connect-SPOService and then reads $site.RootWeb and $web.RoleAssignments was never going to work, independent of the auth method — Connect-SPOService connects to the SharePoint Online Management Shell’s tenant-admin cmdlets, and Get-SPOSite returns a simple property object with no RootWeb on it, not a live
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: username/password authentication to SharePoint Online — the pattern most older connection examples are built around — stopped working entirely as of May 1, 2026, when Microsoft fully retired legacy (IDCRL) authentication with no re-enable option. A second, separate method — app-only authentication via a client secret — also
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Extracting SharePoint list data to CSV via PowerShell is genuinely simple for a small list — the part that trips people up is the connection method that’s since been removed, and the list-view threshold that silently breaks the simple version of this script once a list crosses 5,000 items. This post covers the current, working
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Worth leading with directly, since it changes what this post can actually be about: the classic SharePoint Add-in model — what this post originally covered — is fully retired. Microsoft deprecated it in November 2023 and it stopped functioning in any tenant as of April 2, 2026, with no extension. Any script built around installing
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Most “common SharePoint issues” round-ups stop at “here’s a category, here’s generic advice” — permissions are hard, versioning is confusing, performance can be slow. That’s true and not very actionable. This post is organized the other way: symptom first, then the specific, verifiable cause, then where to actually go for the full fix rather than
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“Modern SharePoint site design” covers more ground than one post can usefully hold, so this one stays narrow: the page-composition layer — the web parts, navigation, and personalization choices that actually shape what a visitor sees and clicks. For the step-by-step of creating and configuring a site in the first place, see A Comprehensive Guide
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Power Automate is included, in a limited form, with most Microsoft 365 plans — which is exactly why the licensing side trips people up. “Included” only covers standard connectors; the moment a flow touches Dataverse, a premium connector, or scheduled RPA, that’s a separate paid tier, and the way that tier gets triggered isn’t always
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Plain fetch() or XMLHttpRequest work fine for hitting SharePoint’s REST API — the part that’s actually SharePoint-specific isn’t the HTTP call itself, it’s the headers: an Accept header SharePoint’s OData implementation expects, and a request digest token required on anything that isn’t a GET. In this post: A GET request: fetching list items · A
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The Events web part surfaces upcoming items from a SharePoint Events list on a modern page — straightforward to add, but worth knowing its real limits before assuming it handles more than it actually does. The most common assumption that trips people up: it does not include built-in RSVP or registration, despite that being the
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