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Introduction One of the recurring challenges with Microsoft 365 administration is that a feature can be useful for some users while creating governance or support problems for an organisation.Read more

Why Governance Matters More Now SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) is becoming more interesting to me because the conversation around SharePoint governance is changing.Read more

CLI for Microsoft 365 v11.11 opens the door to the agent era with a brand new Entra command, continues the ongoing work on minimal permissions and Zod schema validation, and fixes two SharePoint issues reported by the community.Read more

The original idea The starting point was a straightforward PowerShell script designed to identify Microsoft Entra ID guest accounts that had been inactive for a defined period, display them, and give an administrator the option to delete them - Delete inactive Guest User by Peter Paul Kirschner.Read more

The PnP PowerShell MCP Server (preview) turns your favourite AI assistant into a PnP PowerShell copilot. Describe what you want in plain English, and watch it run the cmdlets, write the scripts, and dig up community samples for you. Help us shape it—we’d love your feedback!Read more

The problem One of the things I enjoy about community calls is seeing a familiar Microsoft service used in a slightly different way.Read more

PnP Core SDK v1.18.0 and PnP Framework 1.21.0 are out — bringing new features, improvements, and community-driven enhancements.Read more

Introduction The more I work with SharePoint, the more I see site creation as a governance question rather than simply a productivity feature.Read more

One report we review monthly as part of our governance meeting is the Mailbox Forwarding Report.Read more

Introduction Microsoft 365 makes collaborating with external users easy, but understanding what those guest users can actually do is often much harder.Read more

SharePoint Framework Toolkit is a Visual Studio Code extension that aims to boost your productivity in developing and managing SharePoint Framework solutions, helping at every stage of your development flow, from setting up your development workspace to deploying a solution straight to your tenant without the need to leave VS...Read more

CLI for Microsoft 365 v11.10 expands coverage across Outlook and Power Pages with a handful of new commands, renames the SharePoint alert commands to reflect their new purpose, and keeps the codebase healthy with more Zod migrations, tighter minimal permissions, and support for the latest SPFx version.Read more

One of the things I’ve learned working with Microsoft 365 is that storage issues are rarely as straightforward as they first appear.Read more