Introduction Thanks to Kinga Kazala for her timely article Deploy SPFx app using pipeline’s Workload Identity federation, which showcases how to use Workload Identity Federation to alleviate the need for using Entra app secrets or certificates. This method simplifies the setup process, especially when there’s reliance on a single person who might be unavailable. We initially set up the SPFx pipeline for the Test environment using certificates with CLI for M365.

Introduction The SharePoint Home Site experiences have moved to Viva Connections and is managed from the Microsoft 365 admin centre through the Viva Connections admin centre I started exploring how to manage these SharePoint Home Sites/Viva Experiences using browser’s developer tools, considering I had little luck with the SPO PowerShell, PnP PowerShell, and CLI for M365. These PowerShell experiences will be updated at some point to work with the updated Viva Connections Experience.

When working with SharePoint lists, there might be times when you need to restore items to a previous version. Whether it’s due to an error, unwanted changes, or simply needing to revert to an earlier state, SharePoint’s versioning feature is a lifesaver. I used the script to undo bulk changes made by a Power Automate flow after the process failed halfway due to some data needing correction. For data integrity, the bulk update needed to be undone before running the Power Automate flow again after the data corrections were made.

Introduction When working with files in SharePoint, the drive ID and drive item ID are essential parameters for further manipulation using Microsoft Graph API. The drive ID is a base64 encoded string composed of the site ID, web ID, and list ID for a particular SharePoint library. For more details, refer to Microsoft Graph: Encoding and decoding the drive ID by Mikael Svenson. The item ID part appears to be a base32 encoding of the SharePoint item’s unique ID, though the exact mechanics are still being explored.

Introduction By default, guest access for Microsoft 365 groups is enabled within the tenant. This can be controlled either to allow or block guest access at the tenant level or for individual Microsoft 365 groups / Teams. For more information, check out Manage guest access in Microsoft 365 groups. PowerShell Script to Prevent Guest Access Below is a PowerShell script that allows you to disable/enable guest access for specific Microsoft 365 groups.

Introduction Managing the lifecycle of Microsoft 365 Groups is important to prevent accidental deletion of M365 Groups. It is a good practice to set lifecycle expiration policy to control sprawl. However that means that the group will get automatically deleted after they expire. The Teams/M365 groups owners will get email notifications to renew within a certain timeframe , however if the owners missed the renewal notifications for different reasons, it may lead to accidental data loss.

Introduction Have you ever encountered a stubborn Power Automate flow that won’t open in the new designer? For a long time, I stuck with the classic designer due to issues I faced with the new designer. However, I recently decided to make the switch for these reasons: New Power Automate features will only be available in the new designer Microsoft will get rid of classic designer Future proof flows as they might not be editable if classic designer is gone unless Microsoft caters for incompatible action schemas In this blog post, I’ll share my experience and the steps I took to transition from the classic designer to the new designer in Power Automate.

Introduction With the release of SPFx 1.20.0 in September 2024, I decided to upgrade an existing SPFx solution to the latest version following a post by Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community on Linkedin This process can be challenging, especially when dealing with dependency version conflicts. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps to upgrade your SPFx solution to version 1.20.0, including installing Node.js 18.18.0, using the CLI for Microsoft 365 to generate upgrade instructions, and addressing common issues.

Introduction If ever you had the chance to get your hands onto the New chats & channels experience, you may notice that the Teams icon is missing from the tray on the left To access the channels, it is an option within the chats. Revert In case you find it confusing you can turn it off by following those steps Click on the button Update, settings and more at the top of Teams

Introduction The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) 1.20.0 has been generally available since September 2024. However, if you work with SPFx, you might encounter issues when trying to use the latest version. SPFx still requires Node.js 18.x.x. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps I took to install Node.js 18.20.4 using NVM, install the SPFx toolchain, and troubleshoot an issue where the project scaffolding defaulted to an older version of SPFx.