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SharePoint Archiving: Options, Best Practices, and Approaches

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SharePoint archiving moves less-frequently-accessed content to secondary storage while keeping it available when needed — other SharePoint sites, external storage, or a third-party tool. The point is keeping the active environment fast without losing anything. In this post: Why it matters · The four approaches · Microsoft 365 Archive: the native option · What can’t […]

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SharePoint Attachments Operations with PnP.js in React

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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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How to Avoid List Throttling in SharePoint

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Worth a direct correction before anything else: the “indexed column” PowerShell example that circulates for this topic (`Set-PnPListItem` with a value) doesn’t create an index at all — it just sets a field’s value on one item, something entirely different. This post covers the real mechanism for indexing a column, the real cap that mechanism

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Exploring SharePoint Files and List Item Versioning

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SharePoint Document Versioning automatically saves iterations of a document as it changes, so you can see who changed what and restore an earlier version if something goes wrong. In this post: Enabling versioning · Managing version history · List item versioning · What “restore” actually does · Intelligent Versioning: automatic trimming · How many versions

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All about SharePoint Permission Roles

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SharePoint ships with ten built-in permission levels — Full Control down to Restricted Read — covering most access-control scenarios without needing a custom permission level. Here’s what each one actually grants, and how to assign them via PowerShell in both SharePoint Online and on-premises. In this post: The ten built-in permission levels · Assigning a

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SharePoint ‘Save Site as Template’ Challenges

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“Save Site as Template” used to be the easy answer to “how do I spin up another site that looks like this one” — export the structure, lists, and content types to a .wsp file, apply it to a new site, done. It’s still there in SharePoint On-Premises. In SharePoint Online, it’s effectively gone for

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SharePoint Document Sets: What You Need to Know

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A Document Set groups multiple related files — with shared metadata, a shared welcome page, and versioning that treats them as one unit — instead of a loose folder where nothing ties the files together conceptually. In this post: Prerequisites · What you actually get over a plain folder · Creating a Document Set ·

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Gulp: Automate Your Workflow Like a Pro

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Gulp is a JavaScript task runner that automates the repetitive parts of a front-end build — minification, compilation, linting, browser reload — using plain JavaScript instead of a config file. It processes files through Node.js streams rather than writing intermediate files to disk, which is a meaningful part of why it’s fast: less disk I/O

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When Should We Use SharePoint Group and AD Group?

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Managing user permissions efficiently is crucial in any SharePoint environment. One of the common dilemmas administrators face is choosing between SharePoint Groups and Active Directory (AD) Groups for managing permissions. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, and understanding when to use each is essential for optimizing security and administration. In this post: What is a

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Methods on how to Add Attachments to SharePoint List

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SharePoint doesn’t have one “add attachment” button that works everywhere — which method you reach for depends on whether you’re writing client-side JavaScript, building an SPFx web part, or automating something from a script. The three approaches below all do the same thing: attach a file to a specific list item. The difference is what

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