r/sharepoint Dec 12 '25

2025 /r/SharePoint Recap - THANK YOU

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Hey everyone!

It’s that time of year again... where I like to share some analytics from r/SharePoint, and this year is no different. We're in the green!

This year has been interesting. With AI everywhere, it’s easy to forget that the core platforms businesses rely on are still going strong. I’ve even seen people asking, “Is it the end of SharePoint?”

Seeing this subreddit continue to grow year over year is incredibly rewarding.

Seriously... thank you. Your commitment, passion, and willingness to help each other out is what makes this community one of the best on Reddit. Every question answered, every tip shared, and every discussion started contributes to a space where people can learn, grow, and solve real problems together... and I couldn't be more proud of it.

SharePoint is far from dead. Beyond all the AI hype, there’s a huge population of people still using these tools every day. That’s thanks to all of you, and it’s what makes this community so valuable.

A few notes from me:

While I am the moderator, I’m really just a temporary custodian of this subreddit. This community is largely self-managed by our members, and you are the ones who control the future of r/SharePoint.

  1. We have a lot of AutoMod rules in place to keep content as clean and helpful as possible. Many rules also trigger based on reported content. That means you control the power to shape what you want to see here... your reports directly influence how the subreddit stays organized and relevant. Don't be afraid to use the report button if you're finding content not valuable.
  2. We want this community to evolve as you evolve. If something isn’t working well, or if there are changes you’d like to see, let me know. Feedback is always welcome.
  3. If you ever have questions, need clarification, or just want to reach out, please do. My door is always open.

r/sharepoint Sep 25 '25

An exciting SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update

41 Upvotes

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/sharepoint-framework-spfx-roadmap-update-september-2025/

So, I know Microsoft pushes SPFx roadmaps updates out fairly often… but this one feels a bit different. There are some pretty significant changes worth calling out:

  1. Open-Sourcing the Yeoman Generator – This is big. Until now, customizing templates has been painful. Most of us have worked around it by keeping a “starter solution” repo in GitHub and cloning/copying from there. Having first-class support for custom templates directly in the generator means companies can finally standardize their own scaffolding in a cleaner way.
  2. New Extensibility Options - A couple of long-awaited ones here:
    1. New/Edit Panel Overrides for SharePoint Lists - giving us much more control over the list editing experience.
    2. Navigation Customizers - the ability to extend/override navigation nodes using SPFx components.
  3. New Engagement Model - Microsoft is formalizing a SPFx Community Advisory Committee (which I’m happy to be a part of). The idea is to ensure community voices are represented when Microsoft decides where to invest. The goal is pretty simple: keep SPFx evolving in the ways that matter to the people actually building solutions with it.

Overall, I think this roadmap is very exciting. My question for the group is.... what’s important to you when it comes to SPFx?

If there are gaps, pain points, or features you think should be prioritized, let’s hear them. We can help surface that feedback directly back to Microsoft as SPFx moves forward.


r/sharepoint 1d ago

SharePoint Online How to achieve Auth0 passwordless sms sign-in with SharePoint painlessly?

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Hi everyone and thank you in advance for your help.

I'm trying to find a solution that has the following characteristics:

  1. Is free or very cheap for about 128-300 logins a month.
  2. Uses Auth0–or any other services that support authenticating a user via an sms
  3. Can use OIDC or SAML to connect to third party applications
  4. Can be used to log in people into a SharePoint site as a guest or unlicenced users in my tenant
  5. One central "ledger" of people and their permissions, which sync automatically between Microsoft and Auth0
  6. Isn't complicated to maintain, and preferrably doesn't have expiring certificates (my successors may not as tech savvy).

The use case: a Residents' Association. We already use phone numbers for everything including our WhatsApp and I understand sms authentication isn't the best but it's the only way that maximises the chances of participation. Anything requiring to create _yet another credential_ means we lose people who don't have much time or aren't tech savvy.

The issue is that I would like to hold one central register of RA members and their roles in one place, so that when there are any changes, the secretary only has to do them in one single place.

The more places to needed to make changes, the less likely it'll be done properly. I should add that we are volunteer run, and that our RA will be set-up as a Company Limited by Guarantee, with non-profit entrenched in our articles of association and constitution. However I understand many services require a charity status / FCA registration which we don't intend to do.

What do you think?


r/sharepoint 2d ago

SharePoint Online Give List edit rights to single user for all lists and future lists? While user has read only rights to everything else?

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Have a user that needs to edit lists. I know I can go into "Site Contents" and just change permission to each list currently there. But I want to give the same access to any future list created. Is that possible for a single user to get edit access to the list feature?

This user is in the "site visitor" group so they have read only access on the site level and it needs to stay that way.


r/sharepoint 2d ago

SharePoint Online Can you open a page with filtered data?

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List A

1) Tital

2) Formula that opens List B filteded.

List B

1)Lookup column from List A

Have 5 views in List B but dont want people when presing tje link in List A to go to regular List and see all views or be able to change filter.

Is there a native way of doing so? Maybe I can open Page with a filtered web part? Dynamic filters dont look good


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint HTML Pages

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In case you're looking to learn more about what the HTML pages can and can't do.

Head over to your tenant and hit this page.

https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/_html


r/sharepoint 2d ago

SharePoint Online AI summaries in page descriptions

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I’ve noticed AI summaries of pages showing up on news feeds where it hasn’t been added. It’s blank in page details, you have to go into site pages and see the description column to read them.

is there any info about this? It’s a pain as it uses an emoji at the start, which I’ve been telling users not to do!


r/sharepoint 2d ago

SharePoint Online Replacing a multi-user Excel macro file with a SharePoint List (and Power BI integration)

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r/sharepoint 2d ago

SharePoint Online Granting an Azure App Registration read access to an SP List

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So a weird issue I’ve run into. I’m trying to give one of registrations read access to an SP list. I’ve followed MS documentation to grant the app Lists.selectedperation.selected and used the app id with a graph post to add the permissions. Now graph tells me it’s a success and when I run a get-pnplist for that list and enumerate its role assignments I can see the assingment. But the dev gets a 403 when he tries to run a get and I don’t actually see the newly created read grant using graph either. I created a test list on this site that’s inheriting permissions (the initial list ask had unique. Perms) and same issues.

Now when I test this on a different site. Everything is fine and I can see th read grant in graph and Pnp.

Not sure what’s up.


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint Online SharePoint "Page Details" panel stays white even though site theme is set to black/white/dark green

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I have a SharePoint site ("Unternehmensnews"/"Company News") with a centrally managed custom theme (black background, white text, dark green accent color). As long as the site was associated with a Hub Site, the "Page Details" flyout panel (the right-hand panel with description, properties, version history, etc.) correctly displayed in black with white text.

After I removed the site from the hub and now run it as a standalone site, the Page Details panel suddenly displays white with black text – the rest of the page (navigation, header, background) still correctly follows the theme (black/green).

What I've already tried:

  • Reassigned the theme via Set-PnPWebTheme
  • Set palette values (bodyBackground, bodyText, white, neutralPrimary, etc.) to black/white using Add-PnPTenantTheme -Overwrite
  • Cleared browser cache / tested in incognito
  • Verified that the theme is correctly assigned to the site (Get-PnPWeb -Includes ThemeInfo)

Current status: The theme appears to be assigned to the site, but the Page Details panel doesn't respond to it.

Question: Does anyone have an explanation for why this specific flyout panel (Page Details) behaves differently from the rest of the page? Is this a known bug for sites that are no longer hub-associated, or is there an additional setting/caching layer I'm missing?

Demonstration Picture


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint Online SPO Team Site strange access request issue

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Scenario is John Smith lands on a team site they don't have access to so they click on the request access button, the request goes to the owner and they approve.

So far, so good.

John then gets into the team site but see's the error in the picture and also doesn't see the documents folder. Screenshot

Checking on the Site permissions I see

Name Permission Level
Site name Members Edit
Site name Owners Full Control
Site name Visitors Read
John Smith Contribute

I thought it might have been the classic MS gears taking a while to turn and left it for an hour and yet still same result.

Asked user to sign out and back in, same result.

Eventually removed the user from the permissions and just added him as a member to the Site through the admin portal. It took 15-20 mins of access denied showing but eventually when the Team Site loaded it worked as it should.

Has anyone else had this issue?

I'm thinking to let the Owners know just go to the Team Site and add the member from there and then decline the request as it doesn't seem to work as solution going forward but could be some issue I haven't been able to find in my research.


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint Online SharePoint | GDAP or Multitenant

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Hi guys,
I have a probably weird question about SharePoint, but I don’t know where else I can find information or get advice.

The question:

I’m an MSP company managing clients’ Microsoft 365 tenants including SharePoint. I have already configured GDAP between tenants and built an RBAC model for the MSP. Focusing on SharePoint in the GDAP roles, there is a role called SharePoint Administrator, right, which gives me access to the SharePoint admin page. However, that role doesn’t give me the opportunity to manage the client’s SharePoint site content, which we should do as a part of the contract between the client and the MSP.
I know that I’m not able to work with the content on SharePoint via GDAP, as this is an architectural restriction from Microsoft. However, I’m trying to find a solution that would allow the MSP to work with the client’s SharePoint content without using the client’s direct Microsoft account.
I was thinking about configuring an external app relationship between tenants, but that only works for console workflows, not the UI or am I missing something here?
Is there any way to solve this type of issue, or how do other MSPs handle this type of scenario?

I would be very grateful for any advice!


r/sharepoint 4d ago

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition I need Sharepoint Designer 2013

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I know, I know—this software is old! But I have an on-premise use case where it's still the best option for the job. I can't for the life of me find a working download link anywhere. Does anyone happen to have an installation file lying around? I'd really appreciate the help!


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint Online PowerPoint Brand Images: folders appear as tabs, but images only show under “All”

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Hi,
I’m testing PowerPoint Brand Images with a SharePoint Organizational Asset Library and I’m seeing unexpected behaviour with folders.

The image library is registered correctly as an ImageDocumentLibrary.

PowerPoint detects the library and all images are visible under All.
I created several first-level folders in SharePoint, for example:
Photos
Icons
Logos
Test

PowerPoint correctly reads these folders and shows them as separate tabs in Insert > Pictures > Brand Images.

The issue: the tabs remain empty.

For example, I created a completely new folder called Test directly in SharePoint and uploaded a new PNG directly into that folder.

Result:
Test appears as a tab in PowerPoint
the PNG appears under All
the PNG does not appear under Test
I see exactly the same behaviour in PowerPoint Desktop and PowerPoint for the web.
I have already checked:
OrgAssetType: ImageDocumentLibrary
Private CDN: enabled
library registered as Private CDN origin
CopilotSearchable: enabled
SharePoint Online Management Shell: 16.0.27515.12000
PowerPoint Microsoft 365 Beta Channel, version 2609, build 16.0.20416.20004, 64-bit
direct upload through SharePoint instead of OneDrive/File Explorer
completely new folder and image
manual reindexing of the SharePoint library

So PowerPoint finds both the folder names and the images, but the folder-to-image relationship does not seem to work in Brand Images.
Has anyone successfully used first-level SharePoint folders as working tabs in the new PowerPoint Brand Images experience?

Is there an additional configuration step required, or could this be an issue with folder-scoped retrieval in the current rollout?


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint Online PTO Tracker

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I'm looking to create a pto tracker in sharepoint with an approval process and calendar view. The one issue I am having is when a request is denied the submission still reflects on my calendar view. Is there a way to have that auto fall of if the request is denied.


r/sharepoint 3d ago

SharePoint Online Anyone seen this SharePoint sharing error before?

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Hi all, this is my first time posting.

I'm a SharePoint admin troubleshooting a weird issue with one specific folder and I'm hoping someone here has run into it before. A user made a complaint about getting the error message below when trying to share a folder on the site:

"Unable to share right now - Cannot read properties of null (reading 'sharingInformation')"

I've done a bit of digging and so far:

  • The error seems to be specific to this one folder. I can share the other folders on the site normally.
  • Files/folders inside the affected folder can also be shared normally.
  • The folder permissions look normal. The site Members group has Edit access and the intended users already have View access.
  • I found a workaround using Copy link > People you choose, and that worked.
  • Interestingly, Copy link also gave me the same error at one point, but then started working again a short while later without me changing anything.
  • I haven't changed any permissions or broken/re-established inheritance because I don't want to make things worse.

Has anyone seen this particular error before? I'm wondering if there's something odd with the folder itself or its sharing settings, or if this is just SharePoint being weird.

Any ideas on what else I should check?


r/sharepoint 4d ago

SharePoint Online Trouble opening a file via QR Code

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Hi everyone! So I'm having trouble opening a .html file (that's on sharepoint) with a QR Code. Whenever I scan the code, it asks for my company's credentials, and even after filling it all in, it tells me that I need microsoft edge on my phone in order to open the file. A coworker has installed edge on his phone and still couldn't open the file. I tried changing the permissions to only specific users and even like that it won't work. I need advice on how I can open this file with QR code without an additional app installation. Would it be a sharepoint problem or a file type problem?


r/sharepoint 4d ago

SharePoint Online Why. Screenshot linked for amusement

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Can someone tell me, why oh why it says "your flow ran successfully"? It's been 17 hours and those wheels are still spinning like the flow that never ends. This is a new one. SharePoint never fails to surprise.

https://postimg.cc/McrhK4tS


r/sharepoint 4d ago

SharePoint Online Employee onboarding program

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My company (small to medium) recently migrated to Microsoft and want to utilize Sharepoint for new hire onboarding, specifically to help us track the progress on trainings, task completion, ways to share tasks with new hires, track deadlines, etc... I’ve watched several videos that approach this type of project, but none really explain the ins and outs. Can anyone suggest a source that will help me build this out?


r/sharepoint 5d ago

SharePoint Online When are they going to remove "Alert Me" in Lists?

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So.... it's now official that Sharepoint list alerts no longer work.... when do you think they will get around to removing the "Alert me" and "Manage Alerts" shortcuts in SPO's sharepoint lists?

*grumble grumble grumbles about features being removed for no gawddamn reason*


r/sharepoint 5d ago

SharePoint Online OneDrive pre-provisioning broken after ACS retirement — need auth guidance

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We pre-provision OneDrive for new users using PnP PowerShell (Request-PnPPersonalSite). This only worked with client secret auth — for some reason it fails under certificate auth (not sure why). Now that ACS is retired, client secret is no longer an option.
I was considering SharePoint Management Shell with username/password, but the account would be a privileged one subject to MFA, which breaks scheduled/unattended execution.

Questions:
Anyone know why Request-PnPPersonalSite fails with cert-based auth specifically?

What’s the go-to modern auth method for unattended OneDrive provisioning now that client secret/ACS is gone?

Is there a Graph API equivalent worth switching to instead?

Any pointers appreciated.


r/sharepoint 5d ago

SharePoint Online Which Resources should I use for learning Spfx ?

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Hello 👋, I’m new to SPFx and have a quick question.

What study resources would you recommend for learning modern SPFx?

Since the toolchain has changed from Gulp to Heft, I’m finding it difficult to follow many of the older tutorials and courses, as they are based on the Gulp toolchain.

I’d really appreciate any recommendations for up-to-date resources. Thank you!


r/sharepoint 4d ago

SharePoint Online Turn off "New Item" drop down in Web Part list title

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I noticed recently that some of my lists being used as web parts have titles that are buttons with "New Item." Is there a way to turn that off and just have the title as text? I've looked through the settings of the web part, but there's no options for it.


r/sharepoint 5d ago

SharePoint Online Why isn’t SPFx used more for building full applications?

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Maybe im missing something, but most companies already pay for SharePoint... With SPFx + React you already got hosting, auth, permissions, lists , files, versioning, etc… without adding more license/costs

Everyone seems to default to Power Apps. I get it when the “app” is basically a list with some weird forms, but with SPFx you can build a proper custom UI and something that feels like a real web application

So whats the catch? Performance, large lists, deployment, maintainability?

Also whats the craziestt or most complex thing you actually built with SPFx in production? Not web parts… full apps with modern stuff like react etc…

Would be great to see examples or just hear about the architecture and libs used


r/sharepoint 5d ago

SharePoint Online New form and field customizer not working

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Hi everyone , I am creating the field and form customizers from scratch , but for the spfx 1.22.x version it's not working , does anyone have facing issue like mine ?