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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
Most SharePoint interview lists test recall of facts a search engine returns instantly. These questions test whether someone has operated the platform — and each one includes what separates a real answer from a rehearsed one.
Rajiv Kumar·Feb 4, 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
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
A form that will not save gives you almost nothing to work with — unless you surface Form.Error. Here are the seven usual causes in diagnostic order, from hidden required fields to person columns that need a record rather than a string.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 13, 2022·5 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
