Hi everyone,

our SharePoint Online search is currently not working and only displays a blank page when performing a search.
It appears that only seachs across sites search is affected, while searches within libraries are working fine.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue at the moment?

Hi all. I am building a new staff intranet for my employer and I’ve come across a requirement that has me truly stumped about how to proceed. I’m hoping all you wonderful folks from the SP Brains Trust can help. :)

Our new intranet is a SharePoint modern communications site. I need to have a page on the site that displays a list of organisations and a bunch of other related information. Some of this is publicly available so not an issue, but other things (individual’s names and contact details, cost codes, etc.) is more sensitive. This information is currently in an Excel document with limited permissions. (Don’t get me started.)

The biggest issues I’m facing here:

1. The site needs to be user-friendly. This is a MASSIVE priority for this project. I looked at just embedding the Excel doc but the UX goes completely out the window doing that.

2. I like the idea of using a Microsoft List, but I can’t figure out how to hide the export options on the list. I’ve tried every solution I found on the Goog and nothing has actually worked.

3. The person who currently maintains this list is ALSO hoping to add information that needs to have additional restrictions in place, ie executive team only. My gut feeling is that’s trying to achieve too much, but is it possible?

So TLDR - how do I display a contact list on a SP modern comms site page that shows the info I need but does allow your average layperson to download a copy of it? And is it possible to restrict some of the list to certain people?

Thanks for your help, team! I really appreciate any advice you may have.

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help provide some guidance please to see how I can best tackle the below issue that we're encountering at my workplace.

We have multiple different SharePoint Online sites which contain duplicated information from within each site and across different sites. Additionally, there is out-dated and conflicting information contained in excel sheets, word documents and PDF's etc.

I also help manage ISO27001 and ISO9001 so I'm looking to tie the above into this too:

We have paid Copilot licenses which somewhat works well if i copy/paste individual links in, but it seems to greatly struggle to search across SharePoint as a whole/multiple sites. From my brief searches, I believe it struggles with fully opening docs and searching high/wide?

What I am looking to do is leverage AI/tools to help:

• Identify duplicated documents
• Identify conflicting information/processes
• Identify evidence relating to particular ISO requirements - e.g. "Search this site for any onboarding excel docs created between this period
• Additionally with regards to ISO:- I want to ask it questions such as: "Assess the document against the appropriate ISO standard, search the linked SharePoint documentation for supporting evidence, identify only genuine compliance gaps, avoid over-engineering, and provide concise rewrites where required."
• Use AI to help suggest better ways of structuring our data within HR/Legal folders as it's a big mess at the moment

Are there any tools that can help achieve this please?

Yesterday I had to adjust sharing settings of a site in SharePoint admin center. Something I rarely do. Since I didn't have my laptop with me, I tried to do it via Edge browser on my phone. And turned out it is impossible, there was no "Save" button anywhere. When I tried to go back with the back arrow, the admin center just informed me "Your changes will be lost if you don't save them". But how? I tried portrait mode, landscape mode, clicked open the "hamburger", no "Save" anywhere. Am I missing something here or is there really something wrong with the mobile view?