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 doing
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A SharePoint Content Type is a reusable bundle of columns, settings, and (optionally) a document template that you define once and apply across multiple libraries, instead of manually adding the same “Invoice Number,” “Due Date,” and “Amount” columns to every library that handles invoices. In this post: Why use content types · Creating one with
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Updating a thousand SharePoint list items one request at a time is slow and burns through API throttling limits fast. PnPjs batching bundles multiple operations into a single HTTP call instead. Here’s the syntax for both the older and current versions of the library, and the real limit worth knowing before you rely on it.
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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 Microsoft 365
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In this post: Introduction · Understanding SharePoint User Roles · Checking If a User Is an Admin in an SPFx WebPart · Checking in an Application Customizer · Alternative: Checking Site Owners Group Membership · The simpler check you probably want first · Pros and Cons of Different Approaches · Related reading Introduction When working
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XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) transforms XML into another format (HTML, plain text, or different XML) using declarative templates and XPath. Worth leading with directly, since it changes the practical calculus around it: native, client-side XSLT support is being removed from every major browser engine, starting with Chrome in November 2026. This post covers how
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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 `.xlsx`,
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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 mismatch.
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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 reporting. In
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Every site, library, list, and item in SharePoint inherits its permissions from its parent by default. That’s what keeps permission management manageable. Breaking that inheritance lets you set unique permissions at a specific level instead, for the cases where “everyone who can see the parent can see this too” isn’t the right answer. For the
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