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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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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SPFx (SharePoint Framework) scaffolds a fairly opinionated folder structure via its Yeoman generator. Here’s what each part actually does, and the two competing ways to organize your own code inside src/ once a project grows past a single web part. In this post: The scaffolded structure · src/ and config/ in detail · Type-based vs.
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A Calculated Column derives its value from other columns on the same item, using Excel-like formula syntax, no Power Automate flow or code required. Here are the formulas worth knowing, and the real limitations that decide when a calculated column is the wrong tool. In this post: Common formulas · Real limitations · Creating them
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Important update: the API this post was originally about (SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail) was retired by Microsoft on October 31, 2025. If you have code using the raw REST or PnPjs examples further down, it has stopped working. The current, supported way to send email programmatically from SharePoint is Microsoft Graph’s sendMail API. This post now leads with
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Which backend to build on (Dataverse or a SharePoint List) is one of the earlier architectural decisions in any Power Platform solution, and it’s not really a matter of preference. Dataverse handles relational data, fine-grained security, and scale that SharePoint Lists were never designed for; SharePoint Lists are already included in your M365 plan and
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Canvas or Model-Driven is the first real fork in the road for any Power Apps project, and picking wrong means either fighting the tool for the rest of the build or redesigning halfway through. The short version: Canvas gives you a blank screen and full design control; Model-Driven gives you a data model and Microsoft
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CSOM, JSOM, and the REST API all interact with SharePoint data from outside server-side code. The real question is which one fits a given project, not which one is “best.” Here’s what each actually is, working code for all three doing the same operation, and how they compare. In this post: What each one actually
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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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