How Microsoft Search ranks results
Microsoft Search does not rank on keywords alone. How the lexical and semantic indexes, plus your network signals, decide the order, and the settings that control whether content shows at all.
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Sharing Link Auditor: find and revoke the sharing links hiding in your tenant
The sharing link is the quietest oversharing vector in SharePoint. It does not appear as a permission on the site. It hides as a SharingLinks.<guid> group that nobody opens, and it outlives the project it was made for by years. Your permissions page can look spotless while a document sits shared with the whole company…
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Entra SSPR stops accepting directory-sourced contact info on 5 October 2026 find the users now
On 5 October 2026, self-service password reset stops accepting contact information it never saw a user register. If your tenant bootstrapped SSPR by syncing phone numbers and emails out of Active Directory, some of your users are about to lose the ability to reset their own password, and nothing on their end will have changed….
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Microsoft Scout and the governance questions behind an always-on agent
Copilot has always waited for you. You ask, it answers, it goes quiet. Microsoft Scout, announced at Build in June, does not wait. It stays on. It runs in the background across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and SharePoint, and it acts on your behalf without being prompted each time. Microsoft calls this new category an Autopilot,…
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Copilot in SharePoint is now opt-out what changed and how to control it
For the last year, Copilot in SharePoint was something you switched on. You had to opt in. As of mid-June 2026 that flipped. It is an opt-out preview now, which means if you hold Microsoft 365 Copilot licences and you have not touched the setting, it is already on across your sites. No admin action…
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Copilot Credits the usage bill behind your flat Copilot license
For years, budgeting Copilot was simple. A licence was a flat per-user cost. You multiplied seats by a number and you were done. That is no longer the whole picture. Some Copilot experiences now bill by consumption, measured in Copilot Credits, and consumption does not sit still. Copilot Credits are a common currency for the…
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Copilot agent sprawl is site sprawl’s smarter cousin
Anyone in your organisation can build a Copilot agent this afternoon. A few clicks in the agent builder, no code, and in most tenants no approval step standing in the way. The uncomfortable part is the next sentence. Most admins cannot tell you how many already exist. That is the next governance problem, and it…
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A PnP PowerShell command generator
Try running Get-PnPTenantSite -Url and PnP throws an error back at you. It wants -Identity. But Remove-PnPTenantSite still takes -Url. Same noun, three sibling cmdlets, and the parameter name is not the same across them. I have lost more minutes to that one inconsistency than I would like to admit. So I built a small…
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Copilot agents explained declarative vs custom engine (and which you actually need)
Everyone is building Copilot agents now, and the first fork you hit is a confusing one: a declarative agent, or a custom engine agent? The names do not help, and most explanations bury the answer under a feature table. So here is the distinction that actually decides it, and it comes down to a single…
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Contributor is not enough why your permission audit is only as good as the account running it
You inherit a permission audit script, point it at the tenant, and it comes back with a tidy report. A few overshared sites, nothing catastrophic. You sign off on the Copilot rollout. And the report may be lying to you in a way that has nothing to do with the script, and everything to do…
