Sharepoint Online Templates / Provisioning.
Hello everyone, I have a SharePoint online site that is as close as possible to being a template for my tenant. I'd like to save this site and make it available to me when I need to create a standard site for my tenant. Do you know if there is a possibility to save it and then pick it in the SharePoint list of templates in the creation phase in SharePoint? I know there is a PnP solution; however, after trying it I've had some bad results when trying to use a script with Get-PnPSiteTemplate many times it doesn't replicate the site correctly. I essentially need to take one SharePoint site, and just replicate the structure, DLs, Lists, Views, pages, designs, colours and thumbnails, no files needed. Possibly saving it as a template, but if not possible, just provision it via PnP PowerShell would be enough. Do you have any suggestions or scripts to recommend, or can you point me to any resources?
Configure modern search results to search all of your organization (rather than the current site)
Hey everyone, We heard from many of you the need to be able to change the scope of your modern search results pages. When you create a new communication site or team site in SharePoint Online today, and type into the search box, you are taken to the modern search results page. This page shows results from your current site by default, and allows you to expand the scope of your search to the hub that the current site is associated with (if there is one), or to the whole organization. But there is a desire for being able to change the behavior to always search over the whole organization, or across the hub a site is associated with, without needing an additional click, especially if the site in question will be used as a modern landing page for your organization. I'm happy to say that with the latest version of the SharePoint PnP PowerShell extensions, it is possible to run a simple command as the site owner, and make your site use the organization, or the hub scope by default. To change this setting: 1. Start PowerShell in administrator mode as you will be installing the PnP extensions. 2. Run the following commands to in this order: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline # If you previously had installed this module, you may need to use the "-Force" parameter to install the newer version. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://contosodemosg.sharepoint.com/sites/Strategy -UseWebLogin # this will prompt you to sign into your site. Use the site owner credentials to sign in PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $web = Get-PnPWeb PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $web.SearchScope = 1 # 1 for Tenant, 2 for Hub, 3 for Site, 0 for default behavior PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $web.Update() PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Invoke-PnPQuery After running these commands, the site will start to show results from the whole organization. To go back to the default setting, run the commands again with the value provided to "SearchScope" parameter to 0. To search across the Hub, use 2 as the SearchScope value. We will be providing a way to set this setting using the UI in a future release as well. Updated in April 2020 to reflect the ability to search across Hubs.
SharePoint PnP Search Results
Hi! Does anybody know how to use the Query Template and Refinement Filters part in PnP Search Results to exlude pages from the search? I have a Knowledge Hub and created a search page. The Search Result webpart (before i do a search) shows everything in the Site - and i don't want that. Idealy i will have it blank till a Search word is entered on the Search Box, but has not been able to do that, so i was thinking if maybe using the Refinement Filters i can exlud pages that are just templates. I do have "FileType:equal("aspx") but i don't know how to say Title does not contain "Main" i tried so many different things i found online and nothing seems to work. Any clues? thanks
Classic SharePoint list view redirecting to home page
Hello! I have an old Classic SharePoint site that I need to create a new view in a list for. I have created this view but whenever I go to open that view it redirects me to the homepage. This site was build by someone else and I believe this is by design to stop users from using admin only views....but how do I stop this for my new view? I need some users to be able to use it. When I create a personal view it does not do this redirect. Any ideas how I can stop it happening on a public view? Or will I need each of my users who need a new view to set up personal views of their own?How to grant access to SharePoint subsite with no Owners
Hello! Can someone advise how I can add a user to a SharePoint site with no Owners/Members or Admins? It is a Classic SharePoint subsite so I cannot modify any settings using the SharePoint Admin Centre so I need to find a script or a method of some sort to allow me to add a user account to the site to then be able to review it/decommission it etc.? TIA!How to I get my Sharepoint Designer re-install to work?
My Windows 10 SSD was corrupted and I replaced it with a Windows 11 SSD. For over 20 years, I used Sharepoint Designer to successfully design four HTML websites, and enjoyed the application. I must have installed it using a CD-ROM, because I could not find the installer EXE file after I restored my documents and settings. So, I dowloaded and installed Sharepoint Designer 2013, but am unable to make it work. The User Interface is completely different from what my previous version of the application looked like a month ago. It shows two websites on the upper left of the screen, basically one with and one without WWW. I tried various ways to re-open my website, and kept getting this error message: "Microsoft Sharepoint Designer does not support editing non-Sharepoint sites." Before, I had set .html files to always open in Sharepoint and double-clicked them. So, I set Sharepoint as the default application for .html files as before, but when I double-clicked the one I need to edit, I got this error message: "You must first open a Web site before editing external webpages." When I click the Open Site button, I see a three versions of the website, one with the URL followed by : "/%2f"; when I select this one, sometimes it asks me for the ID and PW I use to access my site with my webhost, so something is going on, but I still get the "Microsoft Sharepoint Designer does not support editing non-Sharepoint sites." I deleted a lot of files in "C:\Users\henry\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache" subfolders, but that didn't work. How the heck can I get Sharepoint Designer to work again? I have depended on it for over 20 years! Totally stumped here!
Download and Access Issues for External Users with SharePoint “Anyone” link sharing option.
Hi All, We are looking for help resolving a recurring issue with file sharing in SharePoint. All files and folders we share with external customers use the “Anyone” sharing link option (Anyone with the link can access). Despite this, we regularly face these problems: Customers can view files but cannot always download them from the browser (for example, using the "Create a Copy”, “Download a Copy" or "Save as" option in the PowerPoint files). Sometimes, sharing the parent folder (containing the file) link allows the external user to download, even though the file link itself does not. The problem is intermittent and not linked to settings or policies—sometimes everything works, sometimes it does not, even when we generate new links. No restrictive site, library, or organizational policies are applied; “Block download” is not set and full link access is confirmed. Using a private/incognito tab sometimes enables the link to work when it otherwise fails in a normal browser session, but not always. We want to understand why this happens and whether there is an underlying issue, known bug, or additional configuration we should review that could make “Anyone” links unpredictable for downloads with external users. Has anyone else experienced similar issues? If so, how did you resolve it, or are you still searching for answers? We’d really appreciate hearing your experiences and suggestions! Thank you for your advice and support!
Automatically email supplier when their certificate expires
Good afternoon. I have set myself a challenge and really could do with some help. I have a list of suppliers like below. I have expiry dates set up, with a colour formatting to show any date past the current date. On the end of the row, there is an email address of the company contact. I want SharePoint to automatically email that person as soon as it turns red/expires. What is the simplest way of doing this? I have looked at Flows etc, and online on video tutorials, but some of the guides are old and out of date or very complex and I am a novice. Is anyone kindly, can give me a step-by-step guide on how to do this, as this would be just awesome and finally bring my company into the 21st century! Thanks in advance.Create new site through App Reg auth and associate it with a hub site
Hi all, I have created a Logic App in Azure and I am using this Logic App to create new team sites (no Microsoft 365 group) in SharePoint Online. For the authentication I have created an app registration (Sites.FullControl.All) and created a self-signed certificate for the authentication. For the audience I am using the https://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com I am using the following request URL: https://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com/_api/SPSiteManager/create I am using the following request headers: Accept = application/json;odata.metadata=none odata-version = 4.0 I use the following request body: { "request": { "Title": "Site name", "Url": "<project number variable>", "Lcid": 1043, "Description": "Just some text", "WebTemplate": "STS#3", "Owner": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "SensitivityLabel": "Sensitivity label GUID", "HubSiteId": "Hub site ID" } } Somehow, I get an unauthorized error. When I omit the HubSiteId parameter, it works fine. In the SharePoint admin center I have not configured users that are authorized to associate sites with the hub sites. I also tried to assign the app registration through PowerShell, but it doesn't work. My question is, how can I authorize the app registration to associate the site with the hub site specified upon creating the new site? Thanks for all help provided!
