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TrustedMissingIdentityClaimSource - OIDC
Hello, Good day! I'm setting up OIDC connection thru SharePoint subscription edition referring to the below link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/security-for-sharepoint-server/set-up-oidc-auth-in-sharepoint-server-with-msaad I was able to get in thru Entra (that means OIDC connection works) but sharepoint return me this exception when getting in to site collection. _layouts/15/_login/default.aspx?errorCode=TrustedMissingIdentityClaimSource=https%3A%2F%2FSPdemo.local%2F_layouts%2F15%2FAuthenticate.aspx%3FSource%3D%252F Workaround suggested done like reconfigured SPTrust, certificates and SharePoint Web application multiple times but yet still no avail. Unfortunately, this have been greyed out for me as i cannot find a concrete resolution. Is anyone have experience the same exception, or perhaps share thoughts what are missing here. Thank you!News post not showing up in feed
Have any of you seen random behavior where occasionally a new News Post doesn't show up in the News web part for a period of time? I'm assuming it's some sort of caching or CDN issue, but I will say that clearing cache doesn't resolve it. If and when the issue occurs, it appears to take about an hour or two before the article starts showing up in the feed, as expected. If anyone has seen this, do you have any workarounds or ways to kick start it, besides organizing that article to the top of the feed manually?SharePoint Announcements items' body don't save the complete URL of links
I am working on a Power Automate flow to replace the SharePoint Alert feature (which will be retired in July 2026) to send a notification when new items are added to an Announcements list. The flow is working fine, but the links I added to the item's body is partial. The messages sent via Power Automate using Exchange connector replicates this error, so when the recipient receives the message, it looks ok, but the links are broken, because it has only "/sites/finance/home.aspx", not the whole URL (https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/finance/home.aspx). I'm using the classic interface, and even when I enter the full URL, as soon as I move away from the URL field, it changes to a partial, relative URL (/sites/finance/home.aspx, without the first part "https://company.sharepoint.com/"). Note: when I receive the exact same content via SharePoint Alert feature, the links work perfectly. Somehow, the Alert feature replaces the relative path with the whole URL. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Luciano Gomes
SharePoint Online modern pages – spacing/gaps lost between web parts in flexible sections 2026
We're experiencing an issue across all our SharePoint Online modern pages. All existing pages with flexible sections have lost the spacing/gaps between image web parts — tiles are now butted right up against each other with no padding or margins. Key details from our troubleshooting: Affects all existing modern pages across multiple SharePoint sites (8+ sites, many pages) New pages created after the issue started render correctly with proper spacing Affects multiple users in our tenant Tested across multiple devices and browsers (Chrome, Edge, mobile) — same result We are on Standard release, no targeted release enabled No changes made to our tenant settings This is causing our intranet pages to look unprofessional and difficult to navigate. Please can Microsoft investigate and roll back whatever CSS/rendering change caused this. Tenant region: UKYour Methods on Extracting Site User Names + Email Addresses
As a newbie to both SharePoint Administration and PowerShell, I have introduced SharePoint to a smaller company in which I introduced its many obvious document security and navigation advantages. REQUEST Can someone provide more straightforward and simplified alternatives to extracting site user names and email addresses other than resorting to PowerShell? My unsuccessful attempts at employing PowerShell are due to my current lesser programming expertise level that I am acquiring as time and projects allow. Best regards, Clint Hill
Your SharePoint Sharing Might Break in 2026
A major change is coming and it’s not getting enough attention. Microsoft is moving away from simple OTP sharing and shifting to full Entra B2B. It sounds like a security upgrade, but it completely changes how external access works. This isn’t a small tweak: Existing sharing links may stop working as expected External users will go through new authentication flows Access will rely heavily on identity and guest policies Yes, you get better control and visibility but also more friction if your setup isn’t ready. If your organization relies on quick sharing links, this could become a real issue fast. Curious how others are handling this: Are you already using Entra B2B? Seeing any access or adoption issues? How are you balancing security vs usability?
Root folder for OneDrive synced SP libraries - custom name?
I am migrating local network shares to SharePoint libraries that are meant to be synchronized to local devices via OneDrive. I will use Intune policy to auto sync set of libraries. When libraries are synced they are saved in the path as below: C:\Users\ExampleUsername\Example Company Limited\Actual Site - Documents In the navigation bar it looks something like this: Is it possible to set a custom name for the Company folder without actually renaming the Entra ID tenant name? I tried the policy that sets a custom OneDrive sync folder by setting the below reg key. This worked for OneDrive sync root folder but the SharePoint sync folder remained unchanged. Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive\CustomSyncRootFolderName Background to my question: Portion of data that is to be migrated has long paths. Once synced via OneDrive I will be facing long path errors due to Windows Explorer limitation that can only handle paths under 260 characters long. Based on my testing the files will stil sync and be "browsable" but users won't be able to open them or modify. I want to shorten the SP sync root folder name to reduce the full path to under 260 characters. The below example path is 72 characters long which takes a significant chunk of 260 characters that Windows Explorer can handle. C:\Users\ExampleUsername\Example Company Limited\Actual Site - Documents I am already looking at renaming folders and libraries and flattening the data structure but there is a limit to what I can acheive there due to the client requirements. As such I am trying to trim path lenght whenever I can.
Users not showing in SharePoint Org Explorer Web Part, but do show in Team App
We have several users who are not showing in the SharePoint Org Explorer Web Part, who do show in Team Org Explorer App. They are all users who were migrated into our Office 365 tenant from another Office365 tenant. We have checked the usual things, manager configure etc. and confirmed that there SharePoint profile is identical to working users. If I search for the user in SharePoint and then select organisation and I can see the user and their manager and subordinates. Out IT team, who are very good have not been able to fix this. Anybody seen something similar before? Any help would be much appreciated. Kr and thanks.
SharePoint Video Playback Quality Defaults to 480p – Horrendous
I manage multimedia training for over 600 locations and two distribution centers, supporting nearly 10,000 team members. We have made a significant investment in producing high-quality training content through professional equipment, structured scripting, and dedicated production and editing time. However, once videos are uploaded to SharePoint, the default playback quality often degrades the experience to what appears to be approximately 480p. As a result, professionally produced content can look noticeably poor on initial playback. Many of our store-level team members are not in a position to manually adjust playback settings, so the default experience matters. The source files are high resolution, but the default playback does not reflect that quality. This also creates issues when leadership reviews training content, because the playback quality can reflect poorly on the production even though the original video is clear. We moved away from third-party hosting due to ad exposure during onboarding and the need for a controlled internal platform. We are intentionally using SharePoint and Stream as part of our existing Microsoft 365 ecosystem for scalability, governance, and centralized access. Introducing additional paid hosting platforms or external streaming solutions is not a direction we are pursuing. From an enterprise training standpoint, defaulting to low-resolution playback undermines engagement and credibility. Are there plans to allow administrators to define a default playback resolution for SharePoint or Stream videos? Are there recommended encoding settings that influence the initial playback quality more reliably? Are there roadmap updates around improving adaptive streaming behavior or default resolution selection? Any guidance or insight would be appreciated.
SharePoint Permissions Management
Over the last 3 years of managing permissions across a suite of sites, I have uncovered more new issues with the way SharePoint permissioning is designed at every turn. A few examples, before the question: If I "Share" a file or folder somewhere on the site (breaking permissions inheritance), it is very inconvenient to find it again. If I "copy link" in this one particular way, permissions inheritance is broken. When looking at site-level permissions, I see site-level permissions groups, but there could be hundreds of other users who have been added to my site(s) without my knowing. If I want to reset permissions in an area (set of folders or library), I have to do it file-by-file or folder-by folder. If I want to get an excel snapshot of - anything really - IT has to pull it and it takes a couple days. Not to mention the permissions interface is incredibly clunky. All-in-all, there seem to be a million ways to break permissions inheritance, creating an access tracking and security nightmare. AND there's no easy way to truly see and understand who has access to what or what is broken, without spending hours with IT to pull a bunch of narrow-visibility reports. So my question is: what is the best way to navigate full permissions visibility? Am I doing something wrong? Is anyone else experiencing these issues? We have resorted to having a very strict "no outsides besides a few exceptions" policy and only managing permissions at the site-level, which really hampers on the collaboration benefits that SharePoint is trying to enable. It is also very administratively intensive. One of the benefits to SharePoint is that users don't really need to understand how it works to use it, but that's becoming less and less true with the increasing lack of security we feel in the platform.HTML-code breaks displaying of multi-line column with RichText in PowerApp Canvas App
I have a canvas app that works on the basis of a SharePoint list. I work in an environment where a researcher makes a work order, this is then sent to the responsible that has to approve it, then the planner plans it and following that, it is executed. This chain of events is all managed with a SharePoint list that has a status that can be changed. Different people have different permissions to edit items. To manage this, we display the list through a CanvasApp where logic is built to ensure that people with a certain role can only select/edit/see certain items. However, a big part of the canvas app is the description of the work order. In the SP-list this is a multi-line field where RichText is enabled. When the work order description is long, and especially when rich text formatting is used (for example colored text), part of the content is displayed incorrectly. The text gets cut off, part of the HTML formatting code appears in the description itself, and the full content is no longer shown. This is an example of a list item: Which is displayed in the Canvas App like this: What I observed is the following: In the normal SharePoint list view, the description is displayed correctly. But when I click/open the item in singe item view itself in SharePoint, the editor/form also . This issue only occurs for items that are created from the Canvas App. If I create a similar item directly in SharePoint and enter a comparable formatted description there, the problem does not occur. So it seems the issue is related to how the Canvas App saves the rich text content to SharePoint. It must have to do something with the way PowerAutomate parses that HTML code into SP.
Shared SharePoint & Power Query incompatible?
Hello, I am currently working on a file in a Shared SharePoint from an external company. I am only able to open the file in the browser and when I try refreshing the Queries, it gives me an error saying "Power Query refresh in Excel for the Web is only supported for workbooks saved in SharePoint or OneDrive for work or school." What I've been doing is downloading a local copy of the file, updating the Queries, and reuploading the file. It's not really a problem, but it is a hassle when needing to do this to multiple files. I'm not sure if this is more of a feature request, or if its due to security risks and restrictions from my admins, or if it's a different problem entirely... so I posted here first. Thanks!power apps free subscription-cancel
Hi All, I am using below id for power apps(email address removed for privacy reasons) using free subscription. with in one month i have cancelled my payment in bank. As of now i am not able to log in admin.cloud.microsoft. Microsoft authentication is not working . I can not delete and re add again. cancel subscription by bank side only enough or we need to do it in microsoft account (email address removed for privacy reasons)SharePoint & AI (Knowledge Agent)
In my tenant, I cannot use some of the basic AI features of the Knowledge Agent. I tried to use the "Create list" prompt, but every call failed with the message: "Something went wrong, and I couldn't complete your request. Please try again later." I have a Copilot license, and some other features are working as expected. I encountered many errors in the browser console that violate the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'unsafe-eval'" (see attached image). "violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'unsafe-eval'" I tried an inPrivate browser session already without any changes in the behavior.
SharePoint List Migration to new Tenant
Hi All, I am preparing for a tenant-to-tenant migration of 60+ SharePoint lists that function as the back-end for various PowerApps. Since we are doing a staggered cutover, I need to perform an initial migration now and then run 'Delta' syncs over the next few weeks to catch new records, updates, and deletes. My primary challenge is that SharePoint's native ID column is not preserved during manual migrations (PowerShell/CSV), which will break our App logic and Lookups. How have others handled cross-tenant list synchronization at this scale? Specifically: How do you maintain record relationships and deep links when the system IDs change? What is the most efficient way to handle deltas across 60 lists without buying expensive 3rd-party migration tools? thanks, Jake
Automated emails from SharePoint when new file added to sites document library
I have noticed in the last few months that I have been receiving emails from SharePoint Online when a new file has been added to a sites document library, these files specifically come from attachment questions on MS Forms we have in place. I have been trying to find out where these alerts are managed but to no avail. I first thought to check the old soon to be deprecated alerts area, no rules set up. I then check the new rules section....nothing. Also ran an audit from that site to see what actions were taking place at the time of the email....no results. Finally tried to run a mail trace but "SharepointOnline" isn't a user object/mailbox in our database so no result would come back. Has anyone else had any experience with this or luck managing it?Can not delete page from search results
I need help deleting a page from search. This is a translated page. I have already deleted the page, the page is deleted from all recycle bins. Same for the original page. The translated page is still showing up in the search results (this happened on friday). What else I tried: - Reindexed the SitePages library => didn't help - Reindexed the entire SiteCollection => didn't help either - Delete the page in the admin center (https://contonso-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/searchadmin/searchresultremoval.aspx) => Error message that the page cannot be found did not help - New page created under the same URL (original + translation), published, deleted again => New page was in the search results, disappeared again, old page is still in the search results. So it didn't help either. How can I really remove a search result from the search? I waited 4 days now and the page is still in the search results and everything I tried is not working properly.Metadata being lost/corrupt
Anyone seen this happen before ? I have a metadata column called Business Area which has a choice column. Not too many files in the library, less than 100. We then group by Business Area. The pic above shows a file that was in a Business Area called Regulation and Assurance - but the file for some reason loses the correct value in the column and pops out in its own 'unknown' business area. To fix it we have to change the column back to the correct value. This happens on a few different libraries that are setup like this.Navigating SharePoint App Permissions After Azure ACS Retirement
With the retirement of Azure ACS (Access Control Services), the familiar SharePoint page (_layouts/15/appprincipals.aspx) used to view and manage app permissions is no longer available. Previously, developers could quickly inspect and revoke app permissions directly from this interface. Now, permission management has shifted to more modern approaches using Azure AD app registrations and SharePoint Online PowerShell. To review and remove permissions, developers should leverage tools like the Microsoft Graph API, Azure Portal (for Enterprise Applications and App Registrations), or SharePoint Online Management Shell (Get-SPOSite, Get-SPOAppPrincipal, and related cmdlets). This transition encourages better alignment with current security practices, centralized identity management, and improved governance across Microsoft 365 environments.
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