Four ways to update a term in the SharePoint Term Store programmatically — SharePoint’s own REST API, Microsoft Graph, plain JavaScript, and PnPjs — and what actually differs between them beyond “which one is easiest.” In this post: Option 1: SharePoint REST API · Option 2: Microsoft Graph · Option 3: plain JavaScript · Option […]
Metadata is what makes SharePoint content findable and governable beyond “search the filename.” Here are the four real ways to actually apply it, and how to keep it from becoming its own mess. In this post: Four ways to apply metadata · Site columns vs. the Term Store · Best practices · When would you
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SharePoint Retention Period is a policy-driven feature, part of Microsoft Purview, that controls how long content is kept before it’s deleted or archived. It’s how you actually enforce a retention rule instead of relying on someone remembering to clean up old files. In this post: The three pieces · Why it matters · Retention labels
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What is SharePoint OOTB Copy Files? SharePoint’s Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) Copy Files functionality allows users to move or duplicate files between document libraries within the same site or across different sites. This feature is natively built into SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises, making it an essential tool for users who need to manage, organize, and distribute
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SharePoint’s audit trail tracks who accessed, changed, shared, or deleted content, and when. It’s what you actually pull up when someone asks “who touched this file” or an audit needs a record of access history. In this post: Four ways to get at it · How long audit logs stick around · Best practices ·
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SharePoint and OneDrive both run on the same underlying storage, but they’re built for different jobs — SharePoint for shared team/organizational content, OneDrive for individual work. Mixing them up is the most common source of “why can’t my team find this file” complaints. In this post: What happens when someone leaves · Under the hood,
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Exporting a list of inactive users is mostly a housekeeping task — unused accounts are a security and licensing cost, and this is how you actually find them instead of guessing. In this post: Via PowerShell · Via the admin center (no scripting) · Third-party tools · Best practices · When would you actually use
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In this post: What is Microsoft Copilot? · What it actually does per app · When would you actually use this? · Licensing: what it actually costs · Before you roll it out · References What is Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, layered on
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If you’ve ever had to juggle separate APIs for Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and Azure AD just to build one integration, Microsoft Graph is the fix for that specific headache. One endpoint, one auth model, most of Microsoft 365 behind it. Here’s what it actually covers, how to authenticate against it properly, and where people usually
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Deleting files or items in SharePoint might seem like a simple task, but it comes with important considerations. Should you permanently delete an item, or should you send it to the Recycle Bin? What happens behind the scenes, and what are the implications for users and administrators? Moreover, when leveraging the SharePoint REST API, how
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