Bijay Kumar 
If you’ve ever wrapped up a Teams meeting only to realize nobody hit the record button, you know how frustrating that is. Especially when you needed those notes, that demo walkthrough, or that client discussion for reference later. The good news? Teams lets you automatically record meetings – so you never have to worry about … read more…
If you’ve ever joined a Teams meeting and spotted your name showing up wrong — maybe it’s your old nickname, a typo, or your legal name when you prefer to go by something else — you’re not alone. This is one of the most common things people want to fix, and honestly, it should be … read more…
If you’ve ever pulled a date from a SharePoint list in an SPFx web part and ended up staring at something like 2026-05-05T09:30:00Z, you know, the frustration. SharePoint returns dates in UTC ISO 8601 format, and that raw string is never something you’d want to show a user. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through every … read more…
If your Microsoft Teams meetings are showing up at the wrong time, it’s likely your time zone isn’t set correctly. It’s one of those things that quietly causes chaos – you schedule a call for 3 PM, and your colleague on the other side thinks it’s 5 PM. Not ideal. The good news? It’s an … read more…
If you’ve ever needed to pull out just part of a text string in Power Apps – like grabbing the first name from a full name, or extracting a year from an invoice code – you’re in the right place. Power Apps doesn’t have a single function called “Substring” the way some other languages do. … read more…
If you’ve just started using Microsoft Teams or your organization has recently migrated to it, the first thing you’ll probably want to do is create a team. It sounds simple, but there are actually a few different ways to do it, and picking the right method can save you a lot of time and setup … read more…
Suppose you have built a beautiful Power BI report that shows sales performance by region or monthly HR headcount trends. Your team loves it. But here is the problem: every time someone wants to check the numbers, they have to open Power BI separately, log in, find the report, and then switch back to whatever … read more…
If you’ve ever been on a Microsoft Teams call, and your dog starts barking in the background, or someone in your house decides to vacuum at the worst possible moment, you know exactly why the mute button exists. Knowing how to mute yourself in Microsoft Teams is one of those basic things that makes a … read more…
If you have built a Power Pages site and noticed that the Sign In button is missing from the header, you are not alone. This is one of the most common issues people run into, especially when setting up a Power Pages site for the first time. The confusing part is that the site looks completely … read more…
If you’ve ever built a custom SPFx web part and wished you could show it only to certain people — like just the HR team, or only managers — you’re not alone. This is one of the most common requests I hear from SharePoint developers. The good news: it’s totally doable. And once you understand … read more…
If you’ve built custom forms in SharePoint Framework, you already know the pain — a user submits a form with a blank required field, or types random text into an email field, and suddenly your web part breaks or saves garbage data to a SharePoint list. Good form validation catches all of that before it … read more…
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…
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