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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Regex looks intimidating until you’ve internalized maybe a dozen symbols — after that it’s just the fastest way to validate, search, or extract text by pattern instead of writing a string-parsing function by hand. This is a working reference: the symbols that come up constantly, three real examples in different languages, and when it’s actually
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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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“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 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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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
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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
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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
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Worth a direct correction before anything else: `-EnableContentTypes` doesn’t control list experience at all — it toggles whether a list supports multiple content types, an entirely unrelated setting. A script built around it silently changes the wrong thing while doing nothing to actually switch between classic and modern view, with no error to flag the
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Knowing who actually has access to a SharePoint site — not who you think has access — is the starting point for any real audit, cleanup, or automation built around user roles. This covers the ways to pull that list programmatically: REST via plain JavaScript or jQuery, PnPjs for SPFx solutions, and PowerShell for admin-scale
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