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  1. Governance & security

    The confident wrong answer is worse than missing evidence

    A governance report told us a site had external sharing disabled. The site permitted anonymous links. Nothing was broken: a correct API returned a default value for a property it had never populated, and the default happened to be the safest word in the enum. Here is the mechanism, the code that reproduces it, Microsoft's own documentation of it, and the discipline that catches the whole class.

    ·7 min read

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  2. Development & automation

    The green test that measured nothing

    A test suite can be green because the system works, or green because the test points at nothing. We collected our own specimens: a suite verifying a build nobody shipped, a read-only gate over a collector that could not load, a published guarantee table that never executed, a pinned assertion that was a fossil of a bug, and a suite that proved every rule and never ran the handler. Each one with the code, and the one-line question that catches all five.

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  3. Development & automation

    Why SharePoint Framework still runs on React 17

    Fourteen SPFx releases later, SharePoint Framework still runs on React 17. This is not a story about an old framework. It is a story about what has to move before a platform can move.

    ·6 min read

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  4. Development & automation

    Developing for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition: the practices that hold up

    Subscription Edition is supported until at least 2035 and its SharePoint Framework ceiling has not moved since 2023. That combination is the whole job: a long runway on an older stack. This is how to build on it well, with code that runs on the version your farm actually accepts.

    ·20 min read

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  5. Migrations

    SharePoint 2016, 2019, Subscription Edition and Online: what actually changes

    2016 and 2019 both end support on 14 July 2026. Subscription Edition has no end date and cannot be bought outright. Online has features the others will never get, and Subscription Edition has two that are usually listed as impossible. A practical comparison, with the licensing that decides it.

    ·17 min read

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  6. Migrations

    Migrating SharePoint 2016 and 2019 to Subscription Edition: the scripts

    SharePoint 2016 goes straight to Subscription Edition. There is no hop through 2019, the method is database attach and nothing else, and the order of the service applications is not a preference. The whole sequence in PowerShell, from the inventory you take before touching anything to the crawl you run at the end.

    ·16 min read

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