How to Disable Built-in Site Templates in SharePoint Online?

SharePoint Online offers several built-in site templates that provide preconfigured site structures and features. By using these templates, you can quickly create business-specific sites without requiring extensive customization. You can apply any built-in template using the “Apply a site template” link under your existing sites’ “Site Settings” menu. However, in some cases,…

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SharePoint Online: Disable SharePoint Designer Workflow Creation

Requirement: Disable new SharePoint Designer workflows creation in SharePoint Online to promote Microsoft Power Automate adoption. How to Disable SharePoint Designer Workflows Creation in SharePoint Online? Although SharePoint 2010 workflow and SharePoint 2013 workflows are supported until 2026 in on-premises versions, SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019, it’s a good idea to move…

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How to Disable the App Bar in SharePoint Online?

The App Bar is a new navigation menu on the left-hand side of your SharePoint Online modern sites that brings a consistent navigation experience to every SharePoint Online site, featuring quick access to global navigation to quickly access sites, news, and files globally. App Bar is a handy and great new feature,…

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Enable-Disable Automatic News Digest in SharePoint Online

Requirement: Disable the automatic news digest in SharePoint Online. How to Disable the SharePoint Online Automatic News Digest Emails? The Auto News Digest Feature in SharePoint Online sends automated emails to users on the latest relevant News posts from SharePoint sites to which they have access but have not viewed yet, on…

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How to Remove a Redirect Site in SharePoint Online?

Problem: When you edit the URL of an existing SharePoint Online site, it automatically creates a new redirect from the old site to the new site. So, You can’t use the old site URL for new sites as there is an existing redirect site with the old URL already in place! Delete…

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Replace Site Collection Administrator for All Sites in SharePoint Online

Requirement: Replace a SharePoint Online site collection administrator for all sites in the tenant. How to change the site collection administrators in SharePoint Online? Replacing site collection administrators in SharePoint Online is straightforward: You can also set site collection administrators from the SharePoint Admin center by: How about replacing an existing site…

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How to remove “Add shortcut to OneDrive” in SharePoint Online?

The “Add Shortcut to OneDrive” is a handy new feature in SharePoint Online to add any Library, Folder, or File shortcuts to a user’s OneDrive, so that you can visit them later. Do you want to remove the “Add shortcut to OneDrive” feature from your SharePoint site, but don’t know how? Well,…

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SharePoint Online: Add Site Collection Admin to Multiple Sites from a CSV File using PowerShell

Requirement: Bulk add site collection administrators to multiple SharePoint Online sites from a CSV file. If you’re like most SharePoint administrators, you probably want to add a site collection administrator to many of your SharePoint Online sites, to quickly grant permissions to someone! Well, PowerShell can help you to automate this task….

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SharePoint Online: PowerShell to Iterate through All Site Collections

Requirement: PowerShell to iterate through all site collections in SharePoint Online Tenant. How to loop through all sites in SharePoint Online? Have you ever wanted to loop through all the sites in your SharePoint Online environment? Maybe you want to get a list of all site owners, or simply enumerate all the…

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Fix “No connection available. Use Connect-SPOService before running this CmdLet.” Error in SharePoint Online PowerShell!

Problem: Getting this error, “No connection available. Use Connect-SPOService before running this CmdLet.” while trying to connect SharePoint Online via PowerShell through SharePoint Online Management Shell. Solution: You must connect to SharePoint Online Service using Connect-SPOService PowerShell cmdlet first before executing any other cmdlets for SharePoint Online. On running the Connect-SPOService cmdlet,…

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