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Do you know you can display the profile picture in the Person column in Modern SharePoint Online Lists and Libraries? Well, Here is how it works: That’s all! Once the list is populated, this is how it looks: You can also edit existing columns and enable the “Show Profile Photos” option. Please…
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Requirement: Display a list of all SharePoint Online sites a user has access to. How do I view all sites I have access to in SharePoint Online? In SharePoint Online, you may have noticed that there’s no easy way to view all the sites you have access to. Although the SharePoint start…
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Requirement: Set alerts for other users in SharePoint Online. How to set up alerts for other users in SharePoint Online? Alerts in SharePoint allow you to keep track of changes and activity within your site, so it is a valuable tool to have when collaborating with others. If you’ve been using SharePoint…
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Requirement: Open PowerPoint files in slideshow mode in SharePoint Online. How to Open PowerPoint in Presentation mode from SharePoint Online? Any link to PowerPoint presentations (PPT, PPTX, or PPSX files) takes users to the Edit mode of the file. Even if the users don’t have permission to edit, SharePoint opens it in…
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Requirement: Display a calendar with a Month view on SharePoint Online home page. How to add calendar web part in SharePoint Online modern page? Although we have the events web part, it’s not giving a calendar look and feel, but it gets all upcoming events. So, to display a calendar grid view…
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Problem: When performing bulk operations through CSOM PowerShell scripts, SharePoint Online throttles the requests with an error message, “The remote server returned an error: (429).” How to Execute CSOM PowerShell Script in Batches? Say, You want to create 1000 items in a List. Wouldn’t it be better to send 10 requests of…
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Requirement: Open documents in the browser in SharePoint Online. How to Force Documents open in Browser instead of the Client Application? By default, most document types (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are set to open in the client application (e.g., Microsoft Word) when you click on them in SharePoint Online. However, you can…
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Update: Things are changed now! You can’t create a subsite if the subsite creation is disabled on the Admin Center! If you try to create a subsite through web browser, You’ll get “New subsites are not available for your organization. Create a new site instead.” message and PowerShell says “New subsites are…
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Here is the list of handy shortcuts to frequently accessed SharePoint Online URLs! Just append it to your site URL. E.g., https://yourdomain.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/_layouts/RecycleBin .aspx Page URL Access Requests /Access Requests/pendingreq.aspx?mbypass=1 Add an App (Classic) /_layouts/addanapp.aspx Admin Recycle Bin /_layouts/AdminRecycleBin.aspx Apps (to configure App Catalog, etc) https://<<Tenant>>-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/TenantAdminApps.aspx Change Site Master Page /_layouts/ChangeSiteMasterPage.aspx Change the…
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Requirement: Allow edit but not download in SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online: How to Allow Edit but not download? We wanted to provide edit permissions to users on an Excel spreadsheet stored in the SharePoint Online document library, without giving them the ability to download the file! So, how to provide users the…
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