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SharePoint PowerShell Commands: Common Snippets

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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

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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anything else: the “one work or school account per device” limit that gets repeated for OneDrive sync is genuinely outdated — current OneDrive sync supports one personal account plus up to nine work or school accounts simultaneously on the same Windows device (macOS is more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

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How to Update Term Store Values with REST API, MS Graph API,JavaScript, and PnPjs Approaches

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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

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SharePoint Retention Period: What You Need to Know

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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 Copy Files: Everything You Need to Know

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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 Audit Trail: What You Need to Know

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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 and OneDrive: Everything You Need to Know

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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

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Exporting Inactive Users in SharePoint: What You Need to Know

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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 ·

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