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A dataset that refreshes on your machine and fails in the service is failing for a structural reason, not a random one. This walks the five causes that account for most of them, and what to check for each.
Rajiv Kumar·Mar 11, 2026·6 min read
A working reference for the SharePoint Online questions that come up over and over — storage, the list view threshold, versioning, deletion, permissions and sharing — with the reasoning behind each answer rather than just the answer.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 28, 2026·6 min read
The delegation warning looks like performance advice. It is not. A non-delegable filter evaluates the first 500 records and reports on those, so searches miss records that exist and totals are quietly wrong.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 13, 2025·12 min read
Power Platform DLP sorts connectors into Business, Non-business and Blocked, then prevents combining across groups. Here is how to build a policy people follow rather than route around.
Rajiv Kumar·Apr 17, 2024·4 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
Adding comments to a record in a canvas app is a common requirement and a good illustration of delegation, concurrency and refresh. The straightforward version is subtly wrong in three ways, all of which appear only once real data arrives.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 3, 2024·5 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
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
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
Canvas apps scale a fixed rectangle by default, which is why they look shrunken on phones. Real responsiveness means switching scaling off and building layout that computes itself from containers and break points.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 5, 2021·5 min read
