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uksteves
Feb 06, 2025Copper Contributor
SharePoint issues in a multi-tenant organisation
Working for a business running a multi-tenant organisation. We have a "global" SharePoint Online instance, which users from other tenants access via their synced accounts. It's the only SharePoint instance in our business which all our employees can access, hence we use it for communications/collaboration etc.
Found a number of issues with SharePoint, including:
- Some of the "out the box" webparts don't work, for example the org chart webpart
- In search, when you are viewing the profile of a user, their image doesn't show.
The cause for both problems is that synced users have a weird UPN, which includes "#ext#". SharePoint is not encoding the UPN to make it URL safe - hence the browser doesn't send the complete request to the Graph API (truncates at the first "#" character).
This seems like a repeatable and fundamental flaw. However, I'm finding it literally impossible to report. The helpdesk don't seem to understand multi-tenant organisations, and try to tie you up in to endless calls to discuss the issue - until you give up. Literally all that needs to change is to encode the hash characters to %23.
Is there a formal channel where bugs can be reported to the dev team?
In general, we've found a massive number of issues with multi-tenant organisations - not just with SharePoint - and I would advise anyone considering going this route to consider carefully. Especially topics like licensing in a multi-tenant organisation.
- ukstevesCopper Contributor
Yes, we've built a stack of SPFX webparts to fill in missing functionality. We probably will end up making an Org Chart webpart. It would be nice if the out-the-box stuff worked in all supported scenarios though ๐
- ArefHalmstrandSteel Contributor
Hello uksteves ,
Thank you for sharing!
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This might sound a bit farfetched, but do you have the possibility to build your own SPFx webparts?
It could be worth for you to invest in your own organizational chart web part that solves your issues and is built more to your needs.Please mark as resolved if this was helpful ๐