SharePoint Online

Assessing Your Current Environment Conducting a thorough assessment of your current SharePoint environment is crucial before planning a migration. This includes identifying key details like version number, activated features, custom solutions, and third-party integrations. Evaluating version, features, customizations Document the specific SharePoint edition, version number, build number, and patch level. This determines upgrade paths and…

Identifying Performance Bottlenecks As SharePoint sites grow in size and usage, administrators may encounter performance issues such as slow page loads, throttling, and timeouts. The first step is identifying where the bottlenecks are occurring in the SharePoint architecture. Analyzing Site Architecture Examine how SharePoint sites are architected including site collections, sites, libraries, lists, pages, custom…

What Causes SharePoint Permission Delays? Delays in SharePoint permission synchronization are often caused by two key factors – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) cache expiration settings and Active Directory (AD) replication latency. SharePoint maintains a local LDAP cache to improve performance when evaluating user and group permissions. However, the cached credentials can become outdated if…

Clearing SharePoint’s Permission Cache SharePoint utilizes a permission cache to store access control lists and permission settings for sites, lists, libraries, items, and users. This cache exists to optimize performance when checking permissions. However, a consequence is that changes made to permissions and security groups in Active Directory are not immediately reflected in SharePoint. Explaining…

Common Causes of Authorization Errors When using claims-based authentication in SharePoint, users may encounter authorization errors that prevent them from accessing sites and content. There are several common causes for these authorization failures: Expired Tokens SharePoint uses security tokens to verify a user’s identity and authorization. These tokens eventually expire and need to be renewed…

The Problem: Slow Permission Updates in Large SharePoint Farms As SharePoint farms grow to accommodate more users, sites, libraries, and permission levels, applying permission changes can take an increasingly long time. Each permission change requires SharePoint to query Active Directory to verify access levels for each affected user. With thousands of permission entries, this can…

Showcasing Key Profile Data A well-designed display of user profile data should showcase the most important attributes of a user’s identity and role within an organization. The key fields to highlight include the user’s full name, job title, and departmental affiliation. Highlighting Name, Title, and Department The user’s full name should be displayed prominently as…

The Core Problem with SharePoint REST APIs SharePoint Online provides a REST API for accessing SharePoint data and performing content management tasks. However, the SharePoint REST API has some key limitations when compared to the Microsoft Graph API. Firstly, the SharePoint REST API lacks feature parity with the Microsoft Graph. Many useful services like Groups,…

Authenticating Requests When making requests to the SharePoint Online API using Postman, one of the most common errors you may encounter is “Access Denied”. This indicates there is a problem with the authentication and authorization of the request. To properly authenticate, SharePoint Online uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol to issue access tokens that must be…

What is OAuth 2.0 and Why is it Needed for SharePoint Online REST APIs? OAuth 2.0 is an open standard authorization framework that enables applications to obtain limited access to user accounts on an HTTP service, such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft Accounts, Twitter APIs, and SharePoint Online. It works by delegating user authentication to the…