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Merge the [sharepoint-migration] tag into [migration]

I recently saw a question with both the migration tag and the sharepoint-migration tag. migration has 16 watchers and 840 questions, and a description sharepoint-migration has 0 watches and only 67 ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising

As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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2022: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2021: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Using multiple accounts to get around Stack Exchange Questions limit

Is it allowed to use multiple accounts to ask questions on the same topics, in this forum to get around the limit of 6 questions per day? I really like an explanation as to why we are not allowed to ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results

Moderator election #5 on SharePoint has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election

The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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The SharePoint election has been restarted - please nominate yourselves!

This change has been executed. See my answer below for more information. We've noticed a number of remarks in the SharePoint election chatroom and elsewhere indicating some confusion about how the ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election [duplicate]

The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Please help me re-open this valid question

SharePoint Link Sharing I've edited the original question to improve it. I feel this is an important question and should be re-opened. Please cast your vote.
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2020: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Synonymize tags about calculated columns

There are several tags about calculated columns; as far as I can see, there's no difference between how they are applied. Should they be synonymized, with calculated-column as the master tag? ...
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How to deal best with own question which ist totally off the track?

I have a question over here MS Flow: ticks function behaves different if fed with a string than with a string variable containing the same string In the meantime the problem solved itself more or less ...
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Time to expand the scope to include other/all Office 365 services?

So, there have been an increasing number of questions around the MS Graph API, MS Teams, OneDrive, etc. that are not specifically centered around SharePoint. In most cases, it appears that other users ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020

2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads ...
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Possible to add more suggestions to the "How to Ask" box?

When any user clicks the "Ask a Question" button, the page gives a helpful "How to Ask" box on the right side with some suggestions about what makes a good question. Can we add additional information ...
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The quickest way to earn 50 reputation?

I need to add a comment to clarify a question that another user has added to a post of mine. I replied with a question and it got deleted and I was asked to post a new question that didnt need ...
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Do we need "Help" Tag?

Do we need a tag named "Help" ??. I just saw in our SharePoint Stack exchange, in which 30+ SharePoint technical questions being tagged with "Help" tag, How does it going to help our SharePoint ...
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2019: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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wrong answer - can it be removed?

The question linked below has only one answer, which is totally wrong. Unfortunately, Google has picked it up and will show it as the highlighted result when searching for "remove toolbar modern web ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2019 [duplicate]

2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :) What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads ...
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sharepoint.stackexchange data analysis - 2018

This is the third edition of the analysis. In general trends in 2018 are not so good as in 2016-2017. Especially things have become changing in September 2017 and slowly goes down until now. Do ...
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2018: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Answered question in section "Unasnwered"

Why question with answers appears in section "Unanswered Questions"? (screenshot). And after refreshing page a few times, that specific question is still visible/ I see that there is a filtering ...
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User with reputation of 74 points can review?

I have made some edits for posts, mostly updating code spacing for better readability. And I check review status for my suggestions - looking for comments from reviewers if there are any good/bad ...
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Questions have yellow background?

I am curious - why certain questions have light-yellow backgrounds? (for example as in this screenshot from SharePoint SE home page). What is so special about them?
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Are we allowed to ask questions based partially or entirely on third party applications that integrate with SharePoint?

I couldn't find a definitive question/answer/kb on this. If there is one (fairly up-to-date), please kindly point me to the right direction and close/delete the post. I understand that generally ...
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SharePoint updated site theme is ready for testing!

As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. If ...
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Removing sensitive information from question quickly

I have encountered a number of cases where sensitive information has been posted inside questions that I have viewed. Typically, I immediately edit to remove or redact the information, I will leave a ...
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what's the future of SharePoint onprem, SharePoint adminstrator jobs

As stackoverflow survey and other indicators. , Many companies already moved to cloud and office 365. I am worried and disappointed, linkedin shows less jobs for SharePoint admins!!!! I don't know ...
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Why post was "bumped to the homepage by Community" without any activity?

I am curious - why this post was "bumped to the homepage by Community" when clearly there is NO activity for more than 4 years? (screenshoted image to capture the moment.. just in case)
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Offering a bounty on someone else's question - 100 points minimum?

I'd like to offer a bounty on someone else's question, though the minimum I can offer is 100 points of reputation. Posting this question in itself demonstrates my lack of generosity of spirit, yet at ...
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Create Tag - reputation required - why 1250?

I've just been adding some tags to questions, but I find that the existing tags are not really sufficient (or else I don't know the existing tags well enough). This led me to post this question about ...
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A fair share of posts are being flagged for questionable reasons every day - we are killing the community

I'm slowly losing my mind with the peer reviewers of SP.SE. I have been reviewing SP.SE's flagged posts for at least 2,5 years and the last 6 months or so have been just ridiculous. Completely valid ...
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How to get rid of the "Can I help" duck?

sharepoint.stackexchange.com now has a "duck". It's either: - spyware - a bad April Fools joke - or just an annoying bad idea. How can I get rid of it?
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Is it allowed to extend an existing question?

Some time, i see that some of the questioner extend their questions after getting the answer of the previous question. Yes, Some time questioner may ask relevant info. But some time the extend portion ...
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Stack Overflow Survey Result - SharePoint

Based on the Stack Overflow Survey Result, The Sharepoint is the most dreaded development platform for the second year in a row!!! What about your opinion? What do you think about the future ...
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Is Power BI, PowerApps, Flow and Dynamics within the scope of this site?

We accept questions about the SharePoint platform. This is defined as the functionality within: the SharePoint server range of products (i.e. SharePoint Foundation and Server, Windows SharePoint ...
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Where can I go for help?

I asked two questions earlier about SP and was told they were off topic. One was about K2 and the other about Outlook, neither of which has a site on here. Can no one on here help me?
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Comments Flags declined

I was reading lot of Q&As in Our site for learning, editing it, voting if it’s really good & flagging noisy comments like +1, Thanks, Cool kind of stuffs as a cleanup. But want to understand ...
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Career advise - in scope?

I understand this question was migrated from main site. But still - Is it a good question for Meta site? .net or SP? Career help pls :)
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SharePoint Meta started accessible for me recently, why?

Is there a reason why I was not seeing SharePoint Meta from the day I joined SharePoint stackexchange - 14th Dec 2017 till 17th Jan 2018? Even I was in impression there is no Meta here. I think its ...
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SPWX - this is found as a suffix on many user names

This is my first meta question and is a little trivial. I just wondered why a number of usernames have this format: Username_SPWX. What does it mean? Do they all work for the same company or ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]

It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now! ...
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sharepoint.stackexchange data analysis - 2017

A year ago I've created some analysis of data in sharepoint.stackexchange. This year I decided to do same and compare some graphics to 2016. Here the link - SharePoint development state in 2017: ...
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Should [tag:loop] be consistent with StackOverflow ([tag:loops])?

While suggesting an edit for the for the loop tag-wiki, I realized that its equivalent on StackOverflow is loops. Should we rename it to be consistent with SO? It would obviously need a tag synonym ...
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My question was deleted but a reason isn't marked

Here's a link to the question, it's on topic as it relates directly to share point and its functionality.
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Most Active Contributors in 2017

Welcome Our SharePoint Stack Exchange Valued Contributors. We would like to share the Most Active Contributors (Top 10) in 2017! You can find the full list at Stack Exchange Leagues !! Please join ...
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Most Active Contributors Quarterly Report! - 4th Quarter 2017

Welcome Our SharePoint Stack Exchange Valued Contributors. We would like to share the Most Active Contributors Report over the 4th Quarter 2017! You can find the full list at Stack Exchange Leagues ...
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report! - Dec 2017

Welcome Our SharePoint Stack Exchange Valued Contributors. We would like to share with you the Most Active Contributors Report over the last month! This report includes the following awards: ...
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