SharePoint Alerts stopped working in July 2026. Not deprecated, not expiring soon. Every alert configured across every tenant stopped delivering, and there is no way to extend them. If notifications quietly went silent a couple of months ago and nobody connected it to anything, this is why. The part that catches people rebuilding: nothing was
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Project Online retires on 30 September 2026. Not “goes into read-only,” not “loses support”. The service and the data in it become permanently unreachable, with no recovery path and no extension. If you have a PWA site collection in your tenant, you have weeks, not months. There are three things to deal with before the
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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 a
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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 the fix
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Teams sprawl is a real problem in any tenant that’s been running a while, project Teams that outlived the project, one-off Teams nobody remembers creating, Teams with external guests still sitting in them long after anyone used the channel. Finding which ones are actually dead (not just quiet) is the first step before archiving or
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Microsoft now offers a native, in-preview way to move SharePoint Online and OneDrive content between tenants (for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or restructuring) instead of relying on third-party tools like ShareGate or AvePoint. It’s Microsoft-managed and doesn’t need a separate migration platform, but it comes with its own licensing requirements and prep work. In this post:
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The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module lets you manage teams, channels, members, and policies in bulk, anything that’s tedious clicking through the admin center one team at a time. In this post: Create a team and add members · Report on all teams · Find inactive teams · Auditing guest access across every team · Archiving
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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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A SharePoint metadata naming convention is just a consistent, structured way of labeling fields. ProjectName_StartDate instead of Start, DocType_Invoice instead of Type. It sounds minor until you’re six months into a growing SharePoint environment and every library names things differently. In this post: Why it matters · The naming rules · The gotcha: internal names
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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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