Share Point Study Notes

Building an Intranet Site

A step-by-step approach to designing and building a modern SharePoint communication-site intranet, from architecture through automation.

Building Pages with Web Parts

How modern SharePoint pages are assembled from configurable, independent web parts, from built-in toolbox parts to custom SPFx solutions.

Columns and Content Types

Understand how SharePoint columns define metadata fields and how content types bundle columns, templates, and behavior into reusable, inheritable schemas.

Custom Forms

SharePoint list and library forms can be customized with Power Apps or JSON column formatting to improve data entry accuracy and the end-user experience.

Document Management

Understand core SharePoint document management capabilities: check-out, co-authoring, sharing, retention, and the underlying document lifecycle.

Hub Sites

How SharePoint hub sites provide shared navigation, theming, and content rollup across a family of associated sites without changing permissions.

Information Governance

The policies, labels, and lifecycle controls organizations use in SharePoint to manage content responsibly from creation to disposal.

Lists and Libraries

Learn how SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries store structured data and files, and how to configure columns, views, and thresholds effectively.

Metadata and Managed Terms

Learn how Managed Metadata and the Term Store provide a governed, hierarchical taxonomy for tagging content consistently across a SharePoint tenant.

Modern vs Classic Pages

How SharePoint's two page rendering models differ, why classic pages still linger in some tenants, and how to assess and plan a move to the modern experience.

Navigating SharePoint

A practical guide to SharePoint's navigation elements — the app launcher, site navigation, search, and the Quick Edit and list views users rely on daily.

News and Communication Sites

How SharePoint communication sites are structured for broadcasting, and how news posts are published, aggregated, and boosted across an intranet.

Page Layouts and Sections

How modern SharePoint pages are structured into sections and columns, how the 12-unit grid works, and how vertical sections behave responsively.

Permission Levels and Groups

How SharePoint controls who can do what on a site through permission levels, SharePoint groups, and inheritance.

Power Platform Integration

Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI connect to SharePoint lists and libraries as a shared low-code data source and business logic layer.

Retention and Compliance

How retention labels, retention policies, and eDiscovery work in SharePoint to keep content for as long as required and defensibly dispose of it afterward.

SharePoint Best Practices

A practical guide to structuring, securing, and maintaining SharePoint Online sites so they stay fast, findable, and easy to govern as they grow.

SharePoint Interview Questions

Commonly asked SharePoint interview questions spanning core concepts, administration, and development, with the reasoning behind strong answers.

SharePoint Online vs On-Premises

A comparison of cloud-hosted SharePoint Online against self-managed SharePoint Server, covering hosting, updates, licensing, and hybrid scenarios.

SharePoint Quick Reference

A condensed cheat sheet covering site structure, permission levels, REST API endpoints, and PnP PowerShell commands for day-to-day SharePoint work.

SharePoint REST and Graph API

Two complementary APIs — the classic SharePoint REST API and the modern Microsoft Graph API — let developers read and write SharePoint data programmatically.

SharePoint vs Other Platforms

How SharePoint Online compares to Confluence, Google Workspace, and Box/Dropbox across collaboration, permissions, and enterprise integration.

Sharing and Access Requests

How SharePoint sharing links, external sharing settings, and the access request workflow let users collaborate without administrators manually managing every g…

Site Provisioning

How new SharePoint sites get created, templated, and governed at scale, from self-service creation to automated provisioning pipelines.