When developers first started building solutions for SharePoint years ago, the ecosystem was heavily tied to server-side deployments, farm solutions, and risky customizations that often caused upgrade headaches. Then came modern SharePoint and the rise of the SharePoint Framework, more commonly known as SPFx. Fast forward, and many organizations are now asking an important question: […]
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Power Automate is deceptively easy to start with — drag a few actions together, connect some services, and you have a working process without writing much code. That’s exactly why it gets adopted fast, and also why its rough edges tend to surface late: a flow that works perfectly with 10 test records can start
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Spend enough time in Power Apps and you notice a pattern: the difference between an app that works and one that’s actually maintainable usually comes down to how well you’re using the utility functions — the formulas handling data caching, validation, formatting, and navigation behind the scenes. This is a working reference for the ones
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The real deciding factor between a tenant-wide app catalog and a site collection app catalog isn’t governance philosophy — it’s one hard technical constraint that makes the decision for you in a specific, common scenario: only the tenant app catalog can sync an SPFx solution to the Microsoft Teams app store. Everything else genuinely is
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KQL (Keyword Query Language) is what SharePoint and Microsoft Search actually parse behind a search box — keywords, managed properties, and operators that let you ask for exactly what you mean instead of hoping full-text matching gets there on its own. In this post: What KQL actually does · Where you’ll actually write it ·
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A Calculated Column derives its value from other columns on the same item, using Excel-like formula syntax — no Power Automate flow or code required. Here are the formulas worth knowing, and the real limitations that decide when a calculated column is the wrong tool. In this post: Common formulas · Real limitations · Creating
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Important update: the API this post was originally about — SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail — was retired by Microsoft on October 31, 2025. If you have code using the raw REST or PnPjs examples further down, it has stopped working. The current, supported way to send email programmatically from SharePoint is Microsoft Graph’s sendMail API. This post now
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This is genuinely a three-way decision, not two — most comparisons of Outlook Calendar versus Microsoft Bookings skip the option that actually fits the most common individual use case best: Bookings with Me, a lightweight personal scheduling link built into Outlook that neither requires the full Bookings app nor forces external contacts to email back
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Canvas or Model-Driven is the first real fork in the road for any Power Apps project, and picking wrong means either fighting the tool for the rest of the build or redesigning halfway through. The short version: Canvas gives you a blank screen and full design control; Model-Driven gives you a data model and Microsoft
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: the verification cmdlet that circulates for confirming a site collection app catalog was actually enabled — `Get-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalogsSite` — doesn’t exist. The real cmdlet is `Get-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalogs` (no trailing “Site”), and a script built around the wrong name fails with a generic “command not recognized” error that gives no hint
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