ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot get compared a lot, but they’re not really competing for the same job. ChatGPT is a general conversational assistant; Copilot is built into a code editor and scoped around software development. Worth noting up front: both products change their pricing and feature set often enough that anything below is a snapshot,
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An apostrophe in a data value (a name like O’Reilly, a title like Harry’s Adventures) breaks a SharePoint REST `$filter` query, because OData uses single quotes as the string delimiter and has no way to tell a literal apostrophe apart from the end of the string. The fix is one specific, verified rule: double the
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Command Sets and Application Customizers scope to specific list templates the same way, through `RegistrationType`/`RegistrationId` in `elements.xml`. Field Customizers don’t. They’re registered against a specific column, not a list template, a genuinely different mechanism worth knowing before assuming one pattern covers all three extension types this post touches on. In this post: Scoping a Command
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SharePoint Hub Sites connect multiple sites into one structure, shared navigation, shared branding, and search that spans the hub and everything associated with it. Useful for grouping sites by department, project, or business unit without merging them into one giant site. In this post: What the structure looks like · Key concepts · Setting it
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Managing permissions and group memberships in SharePoint is critical for effective collaboration and security. Automating the process of adding users to SharePoint groups using PowerShell saves time and reduces manual errors compared to adding people one at a time through the browser. Here’s how to do it step by step, with practical use cases and
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Power Automate can create a SharePoint site end-to-end via the SPSiteManager/Create REST endpoint, no PowerShell, no admin center click-through. Useful for project sites, department portals, or onboarding sites that get created the same way every time. In this post: Prerequisites · The flow structure · Step-by-step walkthrough · Testing the flow · Checking before you
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Worth leading with directly, since it changes which flow pattern is actually worth building: Power Automate’s SharePoint connector has a dedicated Copy file action that copies server-side, without the file’s content ever passing through the flow. A meaningfully better default than the “Get file content” + “Create file” two-step pattern for most straightforward copies. This
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Worth leading with directly, since it changes what this post can actually recommend: `.getAll()` was removed entirely in PnPjs v4, the current major version as of 2026. The replacement isn’t a renamed method. It’s a genuinely different pattern, the same async-iterator (`for await…of`) approach covered from the JavaScript-fundamentals side in Does “for…of” loop wait for
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PnP (Patterns and Practices) is the umbrella for several separate tools that speed up SharePoint Framework development, PnPjs for calling SharePoint from code, PnP PowerShell for admin/automation tasks, and a library of reusable React controls for SPFx web parts. This post covers what each actually does, where the real limitations are, and two places the
This post covers a different problem than How to Update Term Store Values with REST API, MS Graph, JavaScript, and PnPjs. That post covers editing the terms themselves (renaming, restructuring the taxonomy). This one is about the far more common task: tagging a list item with an existing term through a Managed Metadata column, in
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