Did you know there are multiple ways to update or modify your user’s OneDrive for Business? In this blog post, we’re going to go through 3 methods! Hopefully that will give you sense of where to go depending on your role/permissions within Microsoft 365.
 

Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Probably the most obvious way is the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

If you navigate to Users > Active users, you can select a particular user by clicking on their name, and then a panel/blade opens on the right handside. By clicking on the OneDrive tab, we have a glimpse of the storage used by the user compared to his/her allocated quota, and also the settings for the Organisation.

In today’s blog post, we’ll talk about how we can update a person field in SharePoint from another list, using Power Automate. This might sound a bit “cloudy” right now (pun intended 😉), but will be clearer when we get onto it. And I found this solution/workaround very useful with some of my customers.
 

What’s the scenario?

Let’s say you have a SharePoint list with information about people. Basic information as in their display name, email address, role, etc… and those users are in that SharePoint list for a reason: They will somehow be involved in your PowerApps application. As a simple example, let’s called them “Approvers”. This is a very common reference that most users are familiar with for visualization.

Wouldn’t it be nice and kinda logical that, when someone creates a request via an app (i.e.: expenses, training), if the creator is also the first approver, we skip this particular approver? After all, if I create a request it’s because I “want” something? So I’m pretty sure I’ll approve it 😏

In this blog post, that’s why we’re going to do using SharePoint as a backend for the requests, and Power Automate for automating the approval process.

In this post, we’ll make your app flexible when it comes to enter data. More specifically how we can switch between a combobox and text input. I’ve build an app for a customer where a user needed to choose between defined values (combobox) and his/her own value (text input).

Of course, we’re also going to see how to send this data back to the data source (SharePoint in my case) depending on the controls and values chosen! 😉

In this blog post, I wanted to talk about the different types of tabs you can add in Microsoft Teams when using PnP PowerShell. More specifically about the -Type parameter which offers multiple values, but also because we have a dynamic parameter for the Add-PnPTeamsTab cmdlet.
 

The easy ones…

Most of them are pretty self explanatory. For instance, -Type PowerPoint or -Type WebSite. We also provide an example in the Add-PnPTeamsTab documentation for the PDF type.

One way to improve user experience, and increase adoption to a certain level, is to add “little” things that would help users. In this blog post, we’re going to create a popup that will warn users when they want to navigate to another screen, BUT they’ve already entered data. Let’s offer them the choice to “Leave” or “Stay”.
 

Scenario

I have an app for rewarding employees once they’re nominated by their colleagues. Below is the Nomination screen:

Have you ever had the scenario where, you had values in SharePoint (or Dataverse) with a character, or the end of the value is not relevant for your app, and it should not be displayed? I did.

In this first PowerPlatform blog post, we’ll get rid of the end of the value that’s after a specific character. And we’ll also include getting rid of the character since it won’t be relevant nor nice to see anymore!
 

A new feature to use very carefully! OK, you’ve been warned now 😉

In this blog post, we’ll have a look at how we can limit access to OneDrive For Business, and the impact when enabling this feature.
 

Scenario

Let me lay out the environment first, so we understand the impact later. In this example, we’re going to have the following:

• 2x users (Adele & Debra)
• 1x Security Group called “SG-Consultants”
• Both users have OneDrive For Business provisioned, with sample content (private or shared with others)
• 1 of those users (Adele) will be a member of the Security Group we’ll be using, but not the other user (Debra)
   

Limit access to OneDrive For Business

To see this option, navigate to the SharePoint Admin Center –> Access Control (under Policies), and click on Limit OneDrive Access.