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SharePoint PowerShell Commands: Common Snippets

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A reference set of PowerShell cmdlets for day-to-day SharePoint administration — site/list management, users and permissions, metadata reporting, and on-prem backup/restore. Covers both PnP PowerShell (recommended for Online and on-prem alike) and the native SharePoint Online module. In this post: Setup and connecting · Site collection and site management · List and library management · […]

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SharePoint Sync Limitations: What You Need to Know

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What is SharePoint Sync? SharePoint Sync is a feature that enables users to synchronize document libraries from SharePoint Online to their local devices using OneDrive. This functionality allows users to access, edit, and manage their files directly from their desktop or file explorer without needing to open SharePoint in a web browser. Any changes made

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How to Update Term Store Values with REST API, MS Graph API,JavaScript, and PnPjs Approaches

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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

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SharePoint Retention Period: What You Need to Know

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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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SharePoint Copy Files: Everything You Need to Know

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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 Audit Trail: What You Need to Know

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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: Everything You Need to Know

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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 Inactive Users in SharePoint: What You Need to Know

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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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