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SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server — architecture, administration, development and automation.
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Organization assets libraries put approved images and templates directly in the picker. The catch is that registration grants no permissions at all — so the library has to be readable organisation-wide, and that decides your whole structure.
Rajiv Kumar·Mar 19, 2026·4 min read
Building an SPFx web part is TypeScript, a build pipeline and a component tree. What makes it SharePoint is the property pane, the permission model for calling Graph, and a deployment story that has to work for tenant administrators.
Rajiv Kumar·Feb 19, 2026·6 min read
SharePoint Alerts stopped working in July 2026. Here is the timeline that got us here, how to find the notifications your organisation quietly depended on, and how to choose between SharePoint Rules and Power Automate to replace them.
Rajiv Kumar·Feb 2, 2026·11 min read
SharePoint Online's boundaries are well documented and widely misunderstood. Here is what the 5,000 item threshold really governs, why tenant storage fills up without new files, and the design decisions that keep you clear of both.
Rajiv Kumar·Apr 13, 2024·6 min read
IIS URL Rewrite solves real problems in front of SharePoint Server, and breaks farms subtly when misused. Here is the redirect-versus-rewrite distinction, the paths that must never be touched, and how to test before users find out.
Rajiv Kumar·Dec 29, 2022·5 min read
InfoPath forms keep working until they do not, and by then whoever built them has usually left. Here is how to read what a form actually depends on, and how the common auto-population pattern maps onto Power Apps.
Rajiv Kumar·Dec 21, 2022·5 min read
OneDrive for Business is a SharePoint site collection owned by one person. Everything practical follows from that — including why team documents stored in personal OneDrive disappear when someone leaves.
Rajiv Kumar·Sep 12, 2022·5 min read
A permissions report covering every item is slow to produce and impossible to act on. Scoping it to broken inheritance and real grants turns it into a working document — here is the PowerShell and the reasoning behind it.
Rajiv Kumar·Jun 7, 2022·5 min read
External sharing is governed at tenant, site and item level, and the most restrictive setting wins. Here is how to set a sensible ceiling, raise individual sites, and review the guest access that accumulates silently.
Rajiv Kumar·Aug 2, 2021·5 min read
A practical guide to the SharePoint REST API: why $select is not optional, how paging really works, what a request digest is for, and why anything built on ACS authentication stopped working in April 2026.
Rajiv Kumar·Apr 13, 2020·4 min read
