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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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 kind
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Two ways to upload a file to a SharePoint document library via code (raw REST calls, or PnPjs) plus what changes once the file is big enough that a single request isn’t the right approach anymore. In this post: Option 1: raw REST API · Option 2: PnPjs · Large files: chunked uploads · Validating
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Sometimes a SharePoint site collection needs to be locked down to just you: before a migration, before deletion, or because everyone who had a reason to be in there no longer does. This covers both ways to strip every permission except your own: through the admin center by hand, or with PowerShell when you’re doing
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A SharePoint Content Type is a reusable bundle of columns, settings, and (optionally) a document template that you define once and apply across multiple libraries, instead of manually adding the same “Invoice Number,” “Due Date,” and “Amount” columns to every library that handles invoices. In this post: Why use content types · Creating one with
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Updating a thousand SharePoint list items one request at a time is slow and burns through API throttling limits fast. PnPjs batching bundles multiple operations into a single HTTP call instead. Here’s the syntax for both the older and current versions of the library, and the real limit worth knowing before you rely on it.
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Moving SharePoint content between tenants (for a merger, acquisition, or restructuring) has more options than it used to, ranging from a manual drag-and-drop to a native Microsoft-managed pipeline. What you keep (permissions, version history, workflows) varies a lot between them, which is the real deciding factor, not just price. In this post: Native Microsoft 365
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In this post: Introduction · Understanding SharePoint User Roles · Checking If a User Is an Admin in an SPFx WebPart · Checking in an Application Customizer · Alternative: Checking Site Owners Group Membership · The simpler check you probably want first · Pros and Cons of Different Approaches · Related reading Introduction When working
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XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) transforms XML into another format (HTML, plain text, or different XML) using declarative templates and XPath. Worth leading with directly, since it changes the practical calculus around it: native, client-side XSLT support is being removed from every major browser engine, starting with Chrome in November 2026. This post covers how
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: neither the classic on-premises COM-automation script nor the “PnP PowerShell” example commonly shown for this actually produces a real Excel file without a caveat. The COM approach genuinely needs Excel installed on the machine running it, and the PnP example usually exports to CSV, not a true `.xlsx`,
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