Year: 2020

Team connected SharePoint sites default external sharing setting

Noticed a strange behavior where Team connected SharePoint sites are all defaulting to Existing guests external sharing setting. After spending some time on Internet and working with Microsoft, it is determined that this is happening because of SharePoint & OneDrive’s external sharing setting. Kind of obvious! Duh! Here is how external sharing settings for SharePoint […]

Edit in grid view option missing in a Modern SharePoint view

Edit in grid view option will not show up in a Modern SharePoint view, if the view display Style is anything other than Default.

Unable to use Expressions in Dynamic content - Power Automate

Like most of the IT employees, I am working from home because of Covid-19 stay at home orders. Working on a simple Flow, realized that I cannot use expressions in Dynamic content while setting a variable or using Compose action in Power Automate. Only available option is to pick one out of displayed options. Did […]

Setup on-premises data gateway

In this post i am going to list out all the things I had to do setup an on-premises data gateway. It can be setup either in personal mode or standard mode. I am going to set it up in standard mode which is recommended by Microsoft for high availability. Personal mode is more suitable […]

SharePoint Site Scripts & Site designs

What is a site design? A site design is a group for predefined commands or actions that gets executed after a SharePoint Site is created. Some of the actions which can be executed as a site design are setting site logo, join the site to a hub, set default theme, create lists & libraries with […]

SharePoint site default access groups

When a new SharePoint Online site is created it comes with 3 default permission groups. Owners - Full control permission Members - Edit permission Visitors - Read permission These are setup as default permission groups. Users in Owners group have the ability to receive and approve/reject access requests. This can be setup through ‘Access Request […]

Add a Calendar webpart to a Modern SharePoint site page

Adding a calendar to a modern SharePoint site page is not a straight forward task. It took a bit of playing around before i figured out how to do it. Most of the people working with SharePoint by this time already know that Calendar is a list in the backend. In a Modern page when […]