New blog: Do We Really Need to Buy More SharePoint Storage?
I’ve published a new blog post exploring a common question: Do we really need to buy more SharePoint storage? In this article, I cover: How SharePoint storage is calculated What counts towards your storage quota Practical strategies to optimise storage before purchasing more When it actually makes sense to buy additional storage 📖 Read the full post here: Do You Really Need More SharePoint Storage? | Optimisation Guide If you’re managing SharePoint Online or Microsoft 365 storage, this guide will help you make informed decisions and avoid unnecessary costs.SharePoint Knowledge Agent ExcludeSelectedSites max 100 urls
Hi All, just an FYI post about a Knowledge Agent preview powershell limitation. As a long time Digital Workplace specialist I've just tried out the Knowledge agent powershell (reference) , to try and test it on 2 of the 444 sites I have in my tenant, but I couldn't. The ExcludeSelectedSites setting for KnowledgeAgentScope has a limit of 100 urls in the KnowledgeAgentSelectedSitesList array. I found this out by running the following commands, where I had 442 urls in the $urlsToKeepKMagentTurnedOff array. Set-SPOTenant -KnowledgeAgentScope ExcludeSelectedSites Set-SPOTenant -KnowledgeAgentSelectedSitesList $urlsToKeepKMagentTurnedOff I know it is preview but unless we can test this out on real sites, prior to TURNING it on for every site we need to be able to test and trial it to build up our understanding so we can help our site / teams owners.
Set image focal point not working
When adding an image header to a SharePoint page, the "Set image focal point" is not working. Instead, it crops the image, and users are not able to control what part of the image is displayed in the header. I am wondering if this is a temporary glitch? Otherwise, there might not be a reason to have this button available in SharePoint in the first place. Anyone else experiencing this? I've just noticed it this week, but my colleague says this has been how header images work in her system for weeks.
Library View of Files Stored in Folders
I have a document library containing several folders, one of which is Job Descriptions. In the Job Descriptions folder, we have a list of all company job descriptions. The job description documents are PDF'd and the naming convention used for the job description is all lower case separated by dashes. We also have a column called DisplayName which shows the file in a more friendly name. For example: executive-assistant-to-the-director.pdf would be the name of the file, but the Display name is Executive Assistant to the Director.pdf. We would like to add a document library webpart to a SharePoint page, have it filter the document library, selecting the Job Description folder. What would be displayed to the page visitors is a list of all the folders and when they select a folder they would see the Display Name, in which they can click and open the PDF. I must be missing something in my View of the document library as if I show the Display Name and not show the Name of the file, then the folder name is reviewed too. Any ideas?
News page banner images issue
Hello all, Starting yesterday (September 24, 2025) when I create a news page, there's a few issues with how SharePoint is managing the banner image: It seems to copy the image instead of directly using the one from the library When I move the focal point, it creates yet another cropped copy of the image (both being automatically added to the Site Assets folder, under a new folder automatically created with the page name) If I save and move the focal point again, it creates yet another image The thumbnail in the news web part and hero web part is extremely zoomed in and blurry, rather than the full image as it used to be. I can no longer focus the image on any part of the original 1920x1080 image, as it crops the image to the banner size and then only allows me to focus there, which is almost completely pointless since its around 1920x300 at that point. I am using a 1920x1080 image. Some screenshots attached: Original 1920x1080 image What it offers when I'm trying to focus the image Does anyone know if this is a setting that somehow got changed, or a bug? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!
Error while opening file from SharePoint Online
When I open a file from SharePoint Online, I sometimes see the following error (screenshot attached): "UPLOAD FAILED – Your file wasn’t uploaded because your changes can’t be merged with changes made by someone else." I’d like to know what is causing this issue. Has anyone else experienced this?
Glitch when creating Sharepoint list from Excel
I've been trying to create a Sharepoint list from an Excel spreadsheet, and I keep having a problem with one column. The column contains mostly numbers, but they are not formatted very consistently. Some records have additional characters like #, / or -, which is not a problem for me. However, if I choose "Number" as the data type for that column in Sharepoint, I get errors on the records that contain non-numeric characters, and the entire list isn't converted. If I first convert the column to Text or General format in Excel, then choose "single line of text" as my Sharepoint data type, the list isn't created at all. After a few seconds it says that the process is 100% complete, but no list is created. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Migrating SharePoint Wiki
We moved from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online and the Wiki pages did not get migrated, note I am not an administrator, so I have limited abilities, but I do own the site. I am trying to recreate the wiki and managed to copy all the docs and .asxp files. I have been trying to figure out a way of copying these old .asxp file to the newly created wiki site so that I can link them back in. I can get to the wiki library I created, but I cannot figure out how to copy the file into it. I can see the auto generated wiki pages. Below is where I am trying to copy the files. Any ideas or better ways to migrate the wiki? Thanks -ErikSharePoint Online List: Filtered List View Not Refreshing After Change
Before recently, any time a change was made to a list row column that a view filter was based on, the items in view would automatically refresh to show the changes. Now the list view doesn't update unless the user refreshes the page in their browser. This is a consistent issue across all lists in the tenant. Our organization has SharePoint lists with a 'Status' column that impacts what items are shown in a view and its hurting productivity when these views aren't updating with new items unless the page is manually refreshed. Is there a new setting that is impacting the ability for filtered views to auto-refresh?
