SharePoint Online
15 articles tagged SharePoint Online.
Build RAG Over SharePoint Documents Without Breaking Permissions
Ground an internal AI assistant on SharePoint files so each user only gets answers from documents they can open, using the Copilot Retrieval API or Azure AI Search with ACL ingestion.
Copilot Studio SharePoint Knowledge: Set It Up and Fix No-Answer Errors
Add SharePoint sites and lists as Copilot Studio knowledge, choose the right authentication, and fix agents that answer "I'm not sure how to help with that."
Deploy Purview sensitivity labels: encryption, defaults and auto-labeling
Plan, create and publish Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels, add encryption safely, set default and mandatory labeling, and roll out auto-labeling with simulation.
Fix Microsoft Graph 429 throttling with Retry-After, batching and delta
Stop 429 Too Many Requests errors from Microsoft Graph: honour Retry-After, tune the SDK retry handler, batch correctly, cut request cost and replace polling with delta queries.
Microsoft 365 audit log search: who deleted, shared or forwarded what
Use Microsoft Purview Audit and Search-UnifiedAuditLog to find who deleted a file, shared a link, purged email or created a forwarding rule, then export and read the AuditData.
Prepare a Tenant for Microsoft 365 Copilot by Fixing Oversharing First
Find overshared SharePoint and OneDrive content with Data access governance reports and DSPM, contain it with RCD and RAC, then hand cleanup to site owners before Copilot rollout.
Purview retention policies and labels: meet retention, avoid data loss
How Microsoft Purview retention policies and retention labels work across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, which settings win, and how to roll them out without deleting content by accident.
Replace Restricted SharePoint Search with Restricted Content Discovery
Restricted SharePoint Search is retiring. Inventory the allow list, apply Restricted Content Discovery to the sites that need it, verify propagation, then turn RSS off.
Replacing SharePoint alerts with Rules and Power Automate after retirement
SharePoint alerts no longer work. Map each alert type to a SharePoint rule or a Power Automate flow, including digests, changes by others and single-item notifications.
SharePoint and OneDrive standalone plan retirement: licensing paths to 2029
Microsoft is retiring SharePoint Online Plan 1 and 2 and OneDrive for Business Plan 1 and 2. Find affected users, size storage and move them to a suite or storage add-on.
SharePoint Migration Tool: move file shares to SharePoint and OneDrive
Plan, scan and migrate on-premises file shares to SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams with the SharePoint Migration Tool or Migration Manager, then verify the result with the migration reports.
SharePoint Online external sharing settings at tenant and site level
Configure SharePoint and OneDrive guest sharing end to end: Entra B2B invite settings, tenant and site sharing levels, domain limits, Anyone link expiry and guest access expiration.
SharePoint Online permissions done right: groups, sharing links and inheritance
Stop SharePoint Online permission sprawl with group-based access, sensible sharing link defaults, controlled member sharing and a clear rule for when to break inheritance.
SharePoint version history limits: automatic and count-based trimming
Cut SharePoint and OneDrive storage used by old file versions: set automatic or count limits at tenant, site and library level, model the impact, then trim existing versions safely.
Teams external access vs guest access: settings, risks and a sane default
Understand what Teams external access and guest access each allow, where the settings live in Teams, Entra ID and SharePoint, and a defensible baseline.