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
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.
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 Online's "Move To" feature no longer showing my sites
Some point a few weeks ago the Move To function changed. Now when you want to move a file out of a Site and into another, it doesn't let you pick from your Followed Sites, it only lets you pick from your Recent document libraries. We have many Sites and it's making it difficult to move items efficiently (if the location you're moving something to doesn't show up, you have to click around in it in another tab for it to eventually show up in Recent). Previous, it just showed all of my sites that I am a member/followed. Any idea why this might have changed? These are all stand-alone sites, no O365 connection, but they are all part of the same hub-site network. Thank you!BUG? Hero Webpart's first Tile's image is always blurry/poor quality
Good day everybody, For a long time I've had a problem with the Hero web part and am more and more convinced now that it's a bug: The image of the first or large left tile is always blurred or of poor quality, as if it appears in a smaller tile. See example below. I have tried various file formats (jpeg, png, bmp), tried out all aspect ratios according to https://support.office.com/en-us/article/image-sizing-and-scaling-in-sharepoint-modern-pages-dc510065-b5a5-4654-bc94-e3ecbbb57d8d (4: 3, 16: 9) - without success. I tried everything from 1024x768 to 3036x768.... When I edit the web part and click on "Republish", the big tile appears sharp. As soon as I do a browser refresh (F5), it will appear blurry. This error appears is independent of tenant, users, browser, and browser. It also makes no difference whether I used "auto-selected" or "custom image" and select the image by drag-and-drop or from the document library of the page. The example image below has a resolution of 72dpi with 1880x1230 pixels If it is not a bug and the fault lies with me, I urge you for help. Thank you!I need some simple layman explanation
Hi, I am involved with an implementation of an epm system that is integrated into sharepoint M365 and I started reading on its manual on the setting it up for the first time. I know the steps but I wish to get some simple understanding of why the steps are needed since I am not a very technical person. The tool involves the deployment of an addin in Microsoft word (both web and desktop app). The manual said the addin app can be installed by the user directly from app store or being deployed by the M365 administrator to group of users...but in the section for M365 administrator to deploy this addin app, it said that permission needs to be granted to the app. The permissions are: openid profile sites.selected user.read So why is it ok to let user install directly (without any instruction to set permissions) but when M365 administrator do it, it suddenly needs the given permission? In addition, the manual said to run a powershell script in order to grant permission to the sharepoint site created for the epm system integration. it wrote that sharepoint admin must have Microsoft graph powershell SDK installed and run the script being signed in as site owner. What is this powershell script that it needs special installation to run? Then something mention that when deploying the addin to a group of users, there is a step to run a manifest script. This step might need to be re-execute if there is changes in the addin development. What is this Manifest meant for in Sharepoint? What does it do? Thank you in advance.Webpart "See All" ASPX link Not displaying List of News for Read-Only Users
We have an extremely simple Sharepoint site in M365 Sharepoint that we created a very simple News webpart, list form, 1 item, from news posted to this site only. The idea being people come and see the most recent news post, they click "See All" to view more if they desire. Visitors can see this link and go and view the article, along with any other news article posted to this site if they have the direct link, but only people with Edit or higher access are able to click the "See All" link and get a list of more news articles. People with regular Visitor/Read access see the title of the list but the page is otherwise empty like it's failing to return query results. We've chopped up the URL since it's aspx and have at least figured out the point of failure is in the : &serverRelativeUrl part of the link. If they chop off link before that variable, they can get an (albeit unformatted) list of the news articles. I am absolutely not a Sharepoint guru. We've inspected the permissions on the Site Library, we've reindexed the site, we've even experimented with different usergroups, nothing seems to change this behavior. Can anyone explain what's happening here and how to fix it or is this just busted behavior in Sharepoint Webpart command link?
How best to apply extensive edits to a live page?
What are best practices for extensive editing of a live page? I've seen some cautions against working in a prolonged editing session of a live page without publishing it. Instead, some recommend making a working copy of the live page and then when the working copy is ready to publish, you would change the live page URL to something else, followed by changing the working page URL to the original live page's URL and then publishing. What are the pros and cons of this approach? Is there a better way?
