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Looks like we’re seeing the new Share dialog in our Sympraxis Consulting tenant this morning, which is set to Targeted Release.

I had an interesting conversation today about “vibe coding” and whether it’s appropriate to contribute AI-generated code to open-source projects.

I’ve been using PnP.PowerShell for years (once Todd Klindt showed me how awesome it is), and I thought I knew most of the tricks.

A few days ago I stumbled across something I hadn’t seen before: a Microsoft Support article titled “Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app“, thanks to fellow MVP Natanael Mignon posting about it in a conversation we were h…

File this in the category of things I didn’t think would ever work.

Last Thursday, July 9, my eagle-eyed colleague Julie Turner alerted me to something that Kasper Larsen talked about on the Copilot, Microsoft 365 & Power Platform call at (15:17).

Pulling data out of tables in Excel is a great capability in Power Automate flows.

As SharePoint Administrators, we ought to be able to access the Content Type Hub out-of-the-box.

This is a fun challenge.

This is truly one of the best tricks I’ve learned in all the years I’ve been using SharePoint.

Some settings in SharePoint don’t make a lot of sense.

This is a quick one, but I’ve done it enough times, I figured I should write it up.

Document Sets are one of the best things in SharePoint.

Until recently, one of the easiest ways to get “into” Microsoft 365 was to go to Office.com.

Microsoft modernized Document Sets a few years ago – sort of.

Sharing content in SharePoint using links is a great capability.

Last Thursday, I did a webinar with ShareGate covering the upcoming changes for unlicensed OneDrives: Race against the OneDrive clock: How to stay ahead of Microsoft’s deadline I tried to cover many aspects of the upcoming changes, which are primarily out…

If this bugs you, please go vote on this item in the Feedback Portal: New Co-Authoring Feature REMOVES Discard Changes · Community (microsoft.com) Recently as I’ve been editing SharePoint pages, I’ve noticed that the Discard changes button is missing in t…

There has been a lot of confusion about what’s happened to the SharePoint Lookbook.

One of the downsides of being immersed in the Microsoft 365 platform is I develop habits based on how the platform worked historically.

If you’ve been using SharePoint for a while, you know that newly added content may not show up in search results immediately.

Over the last few months – since around January – I’ve needed to enable Global Navigation in a SharePoint Home Site as part of three new Intranet launches.

One thing you learn very early on in consulting (if you don’t – uh-oh!)

I think this is going to really boost how fast we can build data collection for lists with no dev at all: Collect information like a pro New Microsoft Lists forms experience in Microsoft 365 Until this rolls out, we have had several approaches we could use

Knowledge management (KM) is hard.

When we build a new Home Site in a client tenant, usually for a new Intranet, we generally build that new site off in a corner, so it’s not exposed or in the way while we build it.

Today I noticed something that threw me for a loop.

Today one of my clients had a problem.

Content Types are a fundamental building block in SharePoint.

Today I needed to create an array of all the dates in a data range in PowerShell.

Here’s the scenario: we have a site called Clients where we track potential clients and store files we get from them during discussions.

You might be surprised by the title of this post.

Back in October, I was lucky enough to visit my friends at ShareGate, along with fellow MVPs Jasper Oosterveld (@jappie1981) and Maarten Eekels (@maarteneekels) We had several conversations with ShareGate’s Laurent St.

Recently, one of my clients pinged me because she wasn’t seeing any items in a list she knew had many items in it.

SharePoint lists & libraries: we all love ’em.

Orchestry is a partner of ours at Sympraxis.

Another day, another opportunity to spackle the walls of SharePoint where there’s a hole.

When you set a User Profile property with PowerShell, and it has a format of Date no year, how should you pass in the values?

In my recent post Using Content Types in SharePoint’s Site Pages Library, I mentioned using interstitial Content Types, but didn’t explain what I meant.

In a modern SharePoint site, we only get one Site Pages library.

Recently, I wanted to create some new Content Types for videos in a SharePoint site.

It would seem like the simplest thing in the world: show results in the PnP Modern Search Results Web Part in alphabetical order.

Modern SharePoint gives us few options from a design perspective.

SharePoint Location columns have some issues which are pervasive and repeatable.

PnP.PowerShell is one of my favorite tools of the trade.

Lately, every time I have shared my screen on a Teams Meeting with other Sympraxians, they have told me my screen looks awful and I should stop sharing.

Working in a client tenant today, I noticed a new suggestion in the SharePoint Admin Center I hadn’t seen before.

Another day, another weird SharePoint problem.

This is something which has come up in several contexts in the last few months, so I figured I’d put virtual pen to virtual paper and record it for future me and all of you.

This is something that’s happened to me in multiple tenants recently.