How to Create a Retention Policy to Preserve Deleted Items in SharePoint Online?

Requirement: Create retention policy to preserve deleted items in SharePoint Online. How to Create a Retention Policy for SharePoint Online? SharePoint Online retains deleted items for 93 days before they gets deleted permanently. What if you want to preserve deleted items more than 93 days? …

How to Invite a Guest User to Azure AD for SharePoint Online?

Requirement: Invite guest user to SharePoint Online Azure AD. How to Invite a guest user to SharePoint Online Azure AD? SharePoint Online allows us to invite external users to collaborate. However, If the Sharing policy for your SharePoint Online tenant or site is set to "Existing guests -…

SharePoint Online: Convert Classic Team Site to Communication Site

Requirement: Convert Classic Team Site to Communication Site in SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online: How to Convert Classic Team Site to Modern Communication Site? Communication sites are ideal to broadcast news, announcements, reports, etc. to broader audiences such as teams or the entire o…

How to Sync File Share to SharePoint Online using PowerShell?

Requirement: Sync Fileshare to SharePoint Online using PowerShell. PowerShell Script to Sync File share to SharePoint Online document Library: How to sync file server to SharePoint Online? While my other script Migrate File Share to SharePoint Online using PowerShell imports files and fold…

Disable Mass Delete Email Notification "Heads up! We noticed that you recently deleted a large number of files from a site" in SharePoint Online

Requirement: Disable the alert Email notification "Heads up! We noticed that you recently deleted a large number of files from a site" in SharePoint Online. When you delete files and folders in bulk, SharePoint Online triggers the following Email to the tenant administrators and th…

SharePoint Online: Find All Files Exceeding Maximum URL Length Limitation using PowerShell

Microsoft Office Excel files stored in deep Folder, sub-folder structures with long names often result in an error when they exceed the maximum file URL length of 218 characters as in my other article  SharePoint Online: URL Length Limitation of 218 Characters in Excel Files . So, we wanted to pr…

SharePoint Online: Hide Recycle Bin from Quick Launch

Requirement: Hide Recycle bin from SharePoint Online Quick Launch How to Hide Recycle bin in SharePoint Online? Recycle bin link was not relevant for site visitors as they can't delete from site or restore from Recycle bin and we wanted to hide the recycle bin from the Quick launch i…

How to Promote a Site Page to News Post in SharePoint Online?

Requirement: Convert Site Page into News post in SharePoint Online. How to Convert a Site Page into News Post in SharePoint Online? In modern SharePoint Online sites, any existing site page can be converted into the News page, so that it appears in News web parts. To promote a site page to Ne…

SharePoint Online: How to Make a List Read-Only?

Requirement: Make a SharePoint Online list to read only. How to make a list read only in SharePoint Online? Well, there is no direct way to set a SharePoint Online list to read-only. However, we can follow this workaround to make a list to read-only mode. Navigate to your SharePoint Online List &…

How to Disable Quick Edit in SharePoint Online?

Requirement: Disable Quick Edit in SharePoint Online We've a project tracking list with field "Project Health" which is updated by an event receiver based on certain parameters and business logic. So, we made the field hidden in SharePoint online using: SharePoint Online: How to H…