SharePoint Document Library Sync uses OneDrive for Business as its engine to mirror a document library to your local machine. Files show up in File Explorer or Finder like any other folder, staying two-way synced with the cloud, permissions and versioning intact. In this post: How it works · Real limits worth knowing · Best
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SharePoint Compliance Policy and Governance is the framework of rules and controls that govern how data is created, accessed, stored, shared, and disposed of in SharePoint: information management policies, security controls, retention schedules, auditing, and legal-hold capabilities, all in one place. In this post: The six pieces that make up governance · Why it matters
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Worth two direct corrections before anything else: Microsoft Forms genuinely does support Likert-scale questions (a “no matrix/Likert” claim shows up often but hasn’t been accurate for a while) and Power BI integration is real and current, not absent, with a 2026 update to Forms v2.0 that supports fully automated dashboard refresh from Power BI Desktop
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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anything else: the “one work or school account per device” limit that gets repeated for OneDrive sync is genuinely outdated.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 account
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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 4: PnPjs
Metadata is what makes SharePoint content findable and governable beyond “search the filename.” Here are the four real ways to actually apply it, and how to keep it from becoming its own mess. In this post: Four ways to apply metadata · Site columns vs. the Term Store · Building the term set with PnP
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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 window
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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 · Actually
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“SharePoint Administration” covers a wider scope than most overviews of it actually describe. It’s not one role but a delegated Entra ID role with a specific, bounded scope, a dedicated admin center, and, as of 2026, a genuinely current governance layer on top of both that most administrators haven’t fully explored yet. This post skips
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SharePoint List Formatting customizes how lists and libraries look using JSON, without touching the underlying data. Works in SharePoint Online, on-prem 2019+, Microsoft Lists, and Teams lists, same formatting engine everywhere. In this post: One thing to understand first · Three real examples · Formatting forms, not just views · Comparing against today’s date ·
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