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What’s new for SharePoint – September 2025

September was an exciting month for SharePoint and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, bringing updates that continue to push collaboration and content management forward. The highlight of the month is Knowledge Agent in SharePoint—a game-changing feature that combines intelligent content curation, automated site maintenance, and natural-language workflow creation, all within the SharePoint experience. This innovation aims to make knowledge management smarter and more proactive than ever.

Another major update worth celebrating is the story around SPFx Field Customizers. Microsoft listened to community feedback, and advanced customizations for Microsoft Lists are here to stay. These capabilities complement column formatting, giving developers and power users more flexibility to deliver tailored experiences where JSON formatting options fall short.

This post explores these highlights and other key updates from September, so you can stay ahead and make the most of what’s new in SharePoint and related technologies.

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By João Ferreira Oct 1, 2025 What's new 0 Comments

How to Preview SharePoint Site Pages Without Opening Them

Let’s be honest – managing a Site Pages library with hundreds of pages is a real pain. You know the drill: click, wait, scroll, realize it’s the wrong page, go back, repeat.

I’ve been there, and I’m sure you have too. Opening several pages just to find the right one is time-consuming and frankly, pretty frustrating. There’s actually a way to preview pages directly in the library without ever leaving it.

This little trick could save you hours of hunting through pages, and honestly, it’s one of those “why didn’t I think of this sooner” moments.

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By João Ferreira Jul 10, 2025 Pages 0 Comments

How to Create a Custom Vertical Navigation for SharePoint Pages

In the classic SharePoint world, sites used to have both vertical and horizontal navigation. I did quite a few customizations for both, including creating a collapsible menu for vertical navigation.

In today’s post, I want to show you how you can bring some of those old vibes to the modern SharePoint communication sites and how you can use the Site Pages library to create a collapsible menu for your pages that can be used as a template.

Let’s implement this solution using just standard SharePoint components; you’ll be surprised.

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By João Ferreira Oct 14, 2024 Intranet 0 Comments

Transitioning from SharePoint Connectors to Power Automate for RSS Feeds

With the deprecation of SharePoint connectors on August 1, 2024, many users are looking for alternatives to continue receiving messages, alerts, and notifications from their favorite external services. One popular integration that will be affected is the ability to add an RSS Feed to a SharePoint page. This feature allowed automatic updates whenever a new article was published on the original site.

In this article, I’ll guide you through building an RSS Feed for all your SharePoint sites using Power Automate and a SharePoint List. This method will help you maintain the same functionality and layout as the original RSS Feed connector.

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By João Ferreira Jul 24, 2024 Automation, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to upload files from Public URLs to SharePoint using PowerAutomate

Sometimes you have the need to store information that is publicly available on the internet on your SharePoint site. This might be a tedious task which involves downloading and uploading the files one by one to the desired document library. But it doesn’t need to be like that. With Power Automate, you can make your life a lot easier.

In this article, I’ll explain you how to upload a file to SharePoint from the internet using Power Automate. To do that, I’ll use the Image of the Day from Bing. Each day, Microsoft publishes a new image in Bing and I want to save a copy of it in a document library. The process described here is specific for the Bing scenario, but it can be easily adapted to other scenarios.

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By João Ferreira Feb 20, 2024 Automation 0 Comments

Building a SharePoint intranet with ChatGPT and Bing – Announcements and Alerts

Announcements and alerts are all important features in a SharePoint intranet and are used to disseminate information to employees or members of an organization.

All these features are important for keeping employees informed and engaged with the organization and can help to improve communication and collaboration within the workplace.

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By João Ferreira Mar 20, 2023 Intranet 3 Comments

How to connect SPFx to Viva Engage

Microsoft has a lot of application under Microsoft 365 but unfortunately not all of them have API endpoints available in Microsoft Graph.

Yammer now rebranded as Viva Engage is one of those applications and in this article I’ll explain you how to connect old API from a SPFx solution that you can use to build web parts, extensions, Teams apps or ACE cards for Viva Connections.

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By João Ferreira Feb 18, 2023 Development 0 Comments

Stop wasting time duplicating Power Automate flows for SharePoint using Trigr from Encodian

With SharePoint Online you can easily create automations for lists and libraries using Power Automate, however this simple process can easily become out of control as more lists and libraries get created across SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

For each new list or library where you want to get an automation applied, you need to copy or configure a new flow. This tedious and repetitive task is a waste of time and prone to human error.

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By João Ferreira Feb 6, 2023 Automation, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to upgrade a SPFx project to the latest version in 3 simple steps

Back in December 2020 I’ve build a SPFx application customizer to easily deploy Microsoft Clarity on modern SharePoint sites using SPFx 1.11 and recently was asked to get it update to SPFx 1.15.

This was the perfect opportunity to finally write an article to explain how SPFx projects can be easily updated using Microsoft 365 CLI, here is how you can do it is 3 simple steps.

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By João Ferreira Oct 31, 2022 SharePoint 2 Comments

How to build a weather web part for SharePoint using a list view formatting

Modern SharePoint has a built-in weather web part but unfortunately it does not allow customizations displaying just the weather in black and white.

I was looking for a solution with a bit more color and similar with the weather tile from Windows, so I decided to build my own using a custom SharePoint list, a custom view formatting, Power Automate and the out of the box lists web part.

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By João Ferreira Feb 7, 2021 Development, SharePoint 4 Comments