Author: Jimmy Hang

SharePoint Online Highlighted Content Webpart & MMD

With SharePoint HCW, we can use a Custom Query to filter out specific content, below is a sample query for Managed Metadata content in a Pages Library. <View Scope="RecursiveAll">     <Query>         <Where>             <And>                 <Eq>                     <FieldRef Name="taxonomycolumn internal name"/>                     <Value Type="TaxonomyFieldTypeMulti">taxonomyterm</Value>                 </Eq>                 <Eq>                     <FieldRef Name="FSObjType" />                     <Value Type="Integer">0</Value>                 </Eq>             </And>         </Where>         <OrderBy>             <FieldRef Name="Modified" Ascending="false" />         </OrderBy>     </Query>     <ViewFields>         <FieldRef Name="Editor" />         <FieldRef Name="FileLeafRef" />         <FieldRef Name="File_x0020_Type" />         <FieldRef Name="ID" />         <FieldRef Name="Modified" /> … Continue reading SharePoint Online Highlighted Content Webpart & MMD →

Edit SharePoint medata in Teams

Currently there is a gap in SharePoint file Experience in Teams Microsoft is working hard to fill this gap, and we got some updates, but metadata edit is still missing https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/rich-new-file-and-sharing-experiences-throughout-microsoft-365/ba-p/960129 Notes: Each Teams channel gets a folder within the default shared library. Files shared within a conversation are automatically added, and permissions and file … Continue reading Edit SharePoint medata in Teams →

Managing Guest in SharePoint vs Teams

"Guest", such a beautiful word, in my humble opinion Guest Users is one of the most valuable assets we have, and learning how to best collaborate with Guest users is an essential skill set. Lucky for us Microsoft with the continuous innovations in Office 365 makes the process more seamless everyday. * Guest Users -> is a user outside of your Office 365 organisation. How do you enable it? In Office 365 Central Administration center: Verify that Sharing is Enabled for the Tenant in Tenant Admin center Verify Office 365 Group allow users to invite guest Verify in SharePoint Admin center guest sharing is on What is the differences in Permissions and Sharing: At basic level Microsoft Teams have two permissions sets: Owner | Full control of the Team, … Continue reading Managing Guest in SharePoint vs Teams →

Microsoft Teams Private Channels

First thing first, I love Private Channels, 😉 Microsoft finally #shippedit and it is great, works really smooth and below are my summaries: What is privat channel? Privat channel is a feature that allow members and owners of Teams to create channel privately to the owner/creator and invited members. Who can access a private channel? … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Private Channels →

101 Guest user invitation issue in SharePoint Online

*** In SharePoint, site owners can send invitations to external guest, it's not very common but somehow the guest account might get deleted from the SP Site, because of wrong permissions given..ect. Because of the permission issue, the user then gets deleted from SharePoint and Azure AD. Site owner then sends a new invitation the … Continue reading 101 Guest user invitation issue in SharePoint Online →

How to delete a “locked” SharePoint Library

Just came across this challenge and I thought I'll document this. Anyway the challenge is that some of the libraries and lists in SharePoint both online and on-premises might get "locked" for deletion, meaning you cannot delete them by any means, this is particullary through for "Record libraries". If you need to remove a "locked" … Continue reading How to delete a “locked” SharePoint Library →