Bijay Kumar 
If you’ve ever worked on an SPFx project with a team, you’ve probably hit this problem: your serve.json has your personal SharePoint URL hardcoded, your colleague has a different tenant, and every time someone pulls the latest code from Git, something breaks. Sound familiar? That’s exactly what environment variables fix. And once you understand how they work … read more…
If you’ve ever received a meeting invite at 7 PM on a Friday or had a colleague ping you on a Sunday morning, you already know why setting your work hours in Microsoft Teams matters. It’s not just about blocking distractions – it helps your whole team know when you’re available, when to expect a … read more…
If you’ve spent any time building apps in Power Apps, you’ve probably run into a situation where you need to work with dates — calculate a due date, find records from the last 30 days, auto-fill an expiry date, or convert UTC time to local time. That’s exactly where the DateAdd function comes in. It’s simple, flexible, … read more…
Recently, I was working with a client who was facing an issue in their invoice processing workflow. They were receiving a large number of invoices every day in PDF format, and their team had to manually open each file, read the details, and enter the data into SharePoint. It was taking a long time, and … read more…
If you’ve been building SharePoint Framework solutions for a while, you already know Gulp. It’s been the backbone of every SPFx project since day one — running your builds, serving the workbench, packaging your .sppkg files. But that era is officially over. With SPFx v1.22, Microsoft replaced the Gulp-based toolchain with Heft — a config-driven build orchestrator from the Rush … read more…
If you’ve ever needed to figure out what day of the week a date falls on inside Power Apps, the Weekday function is exactly what you’re looking for. I use it all the time for things like skipping weekends in date pickers, highlighting working days, or just showing the day name next to a date. In this … read more…
If you’ve been wanting to build custom web parts or extensions for SharePoint, the very first thing you need to do is set up your SharePoint Framework (SPFx) development environment. With SPFx 1.22, things have changed. Microsoft has introduced a new build system called Heft, which replaces Gulp and handles the build process more structurally. I’m going … read more…
If you’ve ever joined a Teams meeting and found yourself muted without doing anything, you’re not alone. This is one of the most common things people get confused about in Microsoft Teams. And honestly, it makes sense — Teams has different muting behaviors depending on the situation, and some of those behaviors have changed in … read more…
Let’s be honest — plans change. A client pushes back, your calendar fills up, or the topic just isn’t ready to discuss yet. Whatever the reason, you need to reschedule or cancel a Teams meeting, and you want to do it quickly without confusing your attendees. The good news? Microsoft Teams makes this pretty straightforward … read more…
If you use Microsoft Teams for all your online meetings, you already know the frustration of creating a new calendar event in Outlook and then having to manually add the Teams link every single time. It gets old fast. The good news? You can set Microsoft Teams as your default meeting provider in Outlook so … read more…
If you’ve worked on any software project, even a small one, you’ve probably seen how much time goes into documentation. Before development even begins, teams are expected to prepare requirements, design plans, implementation details, testing strategy, and maintenance guidelines. This is important work, but it often becomes repetitive and time-consuming. In many cases, teams either … read more…
If you’ve ever finished a Teams meeting and wished you had recorded it, maybe because someone important missed it, or you just couldn’t keep up with the notes, this guide is for you. Recording a Teams meeting is easier than most people think. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through every method: recording on desktop, … read more…
So you created an SPFx project, named it something like my-first-webpart in a rush, and now you’re staring at it thinking — this doesn’t look professional at all. Or maybe you downloaded a PnP sample from the community gallery, and now you need to rename it before deploying to production. In this tutorial, I will show you how … read more…
If you’ve ever recorded a Teams meeting and then tried to share it with someone outside your organization, a client, a vendor, or a freelancer, you already know it’s not as straightforward as just copying a link. External users don’t automatically get access to your recording, even if they were in the meeting. I’ve run … read more…
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