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Finding out what service created a SharePoint site

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Dan

SharePoint is the underpinning data storage for many Microsoft 365 services. Sites are are therefore created under the hood by many services. Sometimes it it useful to know from where a site was created. We can actually find this in … Continue reading →

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Applying SharePoint Retention Labels Programmatically

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Dan

So you’ve created and published Retention Labels in Office 365 and now you want to apply labels by CSOM code. It’s not very well documented. The following (crude) code should help you get started applying labels to both individual items … Continue reading →

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How to create searchable user profile properties in SharePoint Online

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dan

In this post I will go through the steps of creating a custom user profile attribute that is searchable and shows on the user profile in Delve. It’s not very hard but involves quite a few steps to keep track … Continue reading →

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How to quickly get the Group ID for an Office 365 Group

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Dan

Microsoft Graph typically requires us to use the Group ID when working with O365 groups and modern sites. But Group ID can be tricky to find since it is rarely displayed. Here are some ways I found to quickly get … Continue reading →

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