Agents in SharePoint need no activation. If your users hold a Microsoft Copilot licence, agents are already available to them, and the interesting administrative question is not how to switch them on. It is what you actually control once forty of them exist across your tenant. There are five levers. Four of them have a
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The SharePoint hosted workbench retires on 1 December 2026. SPFx v1.23.0, released 13 May 2026, was the last version to ship support for it, so the page at /_layouts/15/workbench.aspx stops being a development target in a few weeks. The replacement is not another isolated test page. It is debugging on a real modern page, with
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Restricted Content Discovery is the setting that hides a SharePoint site from Microsoft 365 search and Copilot without touching a single permission. Microsoft has been rolling out an enhanced version since late July 2026, with completion expected in late September 2026, and it closes the most confusing gap in how the feature used to behave.
Hide SharePoint Sites from Copilot: 5 Limits to Know Read More »
SharePoint One-Time Passcode authentication retires through October 2026. Phase 2 of the rollout starts on 1 October and is expected to complete by 31 October, and the practical result is that some external users who could open a shared file yesterday will get access denied tomorrow, with no change made on your side. The name
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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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When developers first started building solutions for SharePoint years ago, the ecosystem was heavily tied to server-side deployments, farm solutions, and risky customizations that often caused upgrade headaches. Then came modern SharePoint and the rise of the SharePoint Framework, more commonly known as SPFx. Fast forward, and many organizations are now asking an important question:
Are SPFx Solutions Still Ideal and Safe? Read More »
Power Automate is deceptively easy to start with: drag a few actions together, connect some services, and you have a working process without writing much code. That’s exactly why it gets adopted fast, and also why its rough edges tend to surface late: a flow that works perfectly with 10 test records can start throttling,
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Spend enough time in Power Apps and you notice a pattern: the difference between an app that works and one that’s actually maintainable usually comes down to how well you’re using the utility functions: the formulas handling data caching, validation, formatting, and navigation behind the scenes. This is a working reference for the ones that
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Strengthen your Entra ID setup with Identity Secure Score In this post: What is Identity Secure Score? · Where to find it · Why it’s worth checking · How the score is actually calculated · Tracking the trend with PowerShell · Getting alerted when it drops · When would you actually use this? · Best
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KQL (Keyword Query Language) is what SharePoint and Microsoft Search actually parse behind a search box. Keywords, managed properties, and operators that let you ask for exactly what you mean instead of hoping full-text matching gets there on its own. In this post: What KQL actually does · Where you’ll actually write it · Best
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