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 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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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
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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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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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SharePoint lists work like a lightweight database — each list is a table, columns are metadata fields — but built for collaborative, permission-aware environments rather than raw relational data. Here’s the built-in list types, the template IDs for creating them programmatically, and how to work with them in code. In this post: Built-in list types
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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:
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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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