Learn how to use PowerShell in SharePoint Online from our best PowerShell tutorials.
Every time I need to set up a new SharePoint site, list, or library, I don’t want to click through the UI ten times just to add a few columns. I want a script I can run once, change a couple of values, and be done in under a minute. That’s exactly what this post … read more…
If you’ve ever tried to download a few thousand files from a SharePoint Online document library using the browser, you already know how painful it is. You select the files, click Download, SharePoint starts zipping them, and then… it fails. Or it silently skips files. Or it hits the 250 MB / 10,000 file limit … read more…
Managing permissions in a SharePoint Online document library can become difficult when the library contains multiple folders, subfolders, files, and unique permission assignments. A permissions report helps administrators identify who has access to each folder or file, which permission level they have, and whether the permission is inherited or assigned directly. In this tutorial, you … read more…
Whenever I need to test list view thresholds, indexing, filtering, or performance in SharePoint Online, the first thing I need is a list with a lot of data in it. And by “a lot”, I mean more than 5,000 items, because that is the magic number where SharePoint starts behaving differently. In this tutorial, I … read more…
A few weeks back, I was working on a SharePoint Online migration project for a client in the manufacturing space. They had close to 40 department sites, and every single one of them needed the same thing – a document library called “Training Documents” with a fixed set of department folders inside it (HR, Finance, … read more…
A few months ago, I worked with a client who had a SharePoint Online list named Project Tracker that was being fed by a Power Automate flow. Something went wrong with the flow logic one weekend, and by Monday morning, the list had 48,000 junk items sitting in it. The client’s ask was simple: “Can you just empty the list? … read more…
A few weeks ago, while working with a client on a SharePoint Online storage cleanup project, I got a very simple-sounding request: “Bijay, can you tell us which document libraries are eating up all our storage?” Sounds easy, right? But when you have 40+ SharePoint sites and hundreds of document libraries, clicking through each site one … read more…
Yesterday, I was trying to create a Copilot agent for a marketing SharePoint site. The goal was to help employees quickly find files and documents. But there was a problem: Even though SharePoint permissions were in place, I wanted additional protection so that users without proper access would not see sensitive content at all. So … read more…
When I build Power Apps solutions for clients, SharePoint lists are almost always part of the setup. And most of the time, these lists require many fields. Sometimes 30. Sometimes 40+. Manually creating them was a big waste of time. So I started using PnP PowerShell to automate this.One script -> Run it once -> … read more…
Recently, one of our clients requested us to provide a solution for adding bulk Excel data to a SharePoint list programmatically. We can achieve this using a PnP PowerShell script. So in this article, we’ll learn how to read an Excel file and add bulk data to a SharePoint list using PnP PowerShell. Import Excel … read more…
If you’ve ever needed to compare numbers, dates, or even objects in PowerShell, you’ve probably wondered how to check if one value is greater than or equal to another. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the “greater than or equal” operator in PowerShell using examples. PowerShell Comparison Operators Comparing values is at the heart of scripting … read more…
As an administrator, you might need to work with Microsoft Teams using PowerShell. In this tutorial, I will show you how to connect to Teams from PowerShell with some real examples. You can use the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module to manage teams directly from the PowerShell command line. But before that, you need to install … read more…
I am working on a Document Management System where my client asked me to enable sensitivity labels. By default, sensitivity labels work with supported file types like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. However, they also wanted to apply labels to PDF files. In this article, I will explain how to enable sensitivity labels for PDFs using … read more…
