Useful SharePoint answers, trial and error SharePoint experience blogged

The problem is that many developers are using PowerShell to write C# code in a different way. We should use it as automation tool able to do more with fewer lines of code. That post is about SharePoint PnP PowerShell short spinets for my own quick reference, but also shared with the world.

Assuming that your SharePoint custom list metadata is created as Site Columns and there is some content stored in those columns, SharePoint Search will automatically create Managed Properties for those columns and you will be able to use them in your solution without any manual effort. However all the automatically managed properties are added as of type text or boolean which is not always ideal you would like to take the advantage of KQL filtering by date or further refinement.

The default Members SharePoint Group that comes with newly created modern Communication site has been granted with 'Edit' rights. This permissions role grants user with rights to create lists and modify the navigation and could be to much delegation for a content author for example. If we want to invite user that should just add or edit pages, list items or document in libraries then we could create Contributors SharePoint group and grant that group with just contributor rights.

Provisioning custom list with SharePoint PnP PowerShell done right

We won the European SharePoint Conference 2017 Hackathon with a fresh idea of using Machine Learning to identify groups of people in Office 365 that can collaborate through Yammer, SharePoint and the Office 365 stack.

The modern SharePoint client side development comes with loads of cool open source software development technologies and frameworks like React, Typescript, Gulp and Nodejs tooling, but also supports out of the box unit testing and we can take advantage of that and even do client side Test Driven Development (TDD).

Unit tests are part of the modern age development process and believe or not JavaScript has gone that far that we now create unit tests for our front end and SharePoint is no exception. With the modern SharePoint Framework, Microsoft introduced new page web parts model where we can craft apps based on TypeScript, Reactjs and create component unit tests. This post is about SPFx solution setup and prerequisites and it is part of a series about SPFx unit testing.

How to use VSTS Personal access tokens with GIT for Windows and Visual Studio 2017?

Communication between SPFx web parts through broadcasting events using the SPFx eventAggregator service.

An appSettings.json file can be added and used within SharePoint Framework solution similar to the Web.config / App.config key value app settings in .NET Framework projects. It allows better DevOps and Continuous Integration automation cross different deployment tenants (environments).