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Kasper Larsen

@kasperlarsen.bsky.social

M365 MVP, Information Architecture, Azure, #M365PnP Core Team member, PnP Modern Search maintainer, Quærite et invenietis "Forget about a good Search or Copilot experience if your Information Architecture is lacking"

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Latest posts by kasperlarsen.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Messages like this makes it all worth it
#PnPModernSearch #SharingIsCaring

07.08.2025 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last summer vacation sun downer for now , until Dad and Son dive trip to Malta in September.
Enjoy the summer ( or winter for my friends on the southern hemisphere)

29.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Keeping track of your FAQ web parts Microsoft has started to roll out the new AI driven FAQ Web part (see this for info on how to use it, This NEW SharePoint Feature Just Killed Manual FAQ Creation Forever) or the official intro to the ...

New blog post, this time looking into how to keep track of the new FAQ web part Microsoft is rolling out right now.

www.m365thinking.com/post/keeping...

#SharingIsCaring #PnPModernSearch #Governance

05.07.2025 08:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The new book “Practical SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Development” by my fellow MVPs Franck Cornu and Anoop Tatti is officially out! 🎉

👉 Grab your copy now: packt.link/2IUD5

#Microsoft365 #Microsoft365Dev #SharePoint #SPFx

27.06.2025 10:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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[FEATURE] Possibillity to lower requirement for PnP.PowerShell 3.1 to PowerShell 7.4 so we can use it in automation account · Issue #4946 · pnp/powershell As of now, PnP.PowerShell does not work in Automation Accounts, due to the very slow update cycles from Microsoft. They are still by default using 7.2 that has been deprecated for years now! Activa...

github.com/pnp/powershe...

23.06.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3.1.0 nightly is down to PowerShell 7.2 since about a week ago. I can't get the zippered approach to work, unfortunately

23.06.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Have you looked into running PnP PowerShell 3.1.0 in a Runbook? I can't find any guide on how to load the nightly builds

23.06.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And the kayak is always an option if required 😉

23.06.2025 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great, do we have a ETA on the next version or a guide on getting the nightly to work? It seems the approach based on downloading the nightly, zipping it and uploading it using the GUI doesn't work.

22.06.2025 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To little, too late, seems to be the word around here. But it is for sure a topic that I, as a M365 consultant in EU, are following closely.

17.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Microsoft Forms

Great PnP Modern Search Office Hours today. Discussing Microsoft Search refiners first and then how to implement a FAQ in Modern Search at the top of the hour.

You can sign up for a ½ hour session too at:
aka.ms/pnp/modernse...

#PnPModernSearch #SharingIsCaring

17.06.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And I was of cause right, you should automate it ;-)
BTW the notion that SharePoint search can't index anything below 4th or 5th level of folders is not correct, at least it works on my tenant 😊

15.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Office 365 Distilled | Ep166: MegaMigrationChat In this episode, the boys talk about migrations in the wild, and the experiences they had. They end with a brilliant whisky from one of their favorite distilleries.

I can not praise the Office 365 Destilled poscast enough, the service is completely though the roof.
The service level provided by @marijnsomers.bsky.social , predicting exactly what I would suggest, am I really that predictable ;-) ?

www.office365distilled.com/166

14.06.2025 17:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Developing Azure Functions using PnP PowerShell in VS Code I have been using Azure Functions to extend various Site/Group/Teams provisioning engines for years, and have picked up a few useful habits:Use Managed Identities!Ever since Managed Identities became ...

New blog post: Sharing some of my learnings from working with Azure Functions, using both User Assigned/System Assigned Managed Identities and certificate when working locally
www.m365thinking.com/post/develop...

08.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Using Folksonomy fields in PnP Modern Search In the PnP Modern Search repository, we recently received a question about how to set up an Enterprise Keyword column as a refiner. I wrote about it in this articleWhile I have been familiar with Ente...

New blog post, a followup on the post about using Enterprise Keywork:

The reason why I don't use the Enterprise Keyword and prefer the Folksonomy approach:

www.m365thinking.com/post/using-f...

23.05.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🥳BIG NEWS!!!

I'm so excited to finally be able to announce that @andrewconnell.com and I have a new podcast - Code. Deploy. Go Live.

We'll be delivering new content to you every other week, so please consider checking it out and let us know what you think! Six episodes are available now!

21.05.2025 19:05 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

The plan is to publish another blog post next week, this time about Folksonomy columns and why it is preferred compared to Enterprise keywords

21.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Using an Enterprise Keyword column as a refiner in Modern Search We recently received a question about how an Enterprise Keyword column could become a refiner in PnP Modern SearchFor a guide for how to enable and add the Enterprise Keyword column see SharePoint Mav...

New blog post, this time about using the Enterprise Keywords in PnP Modern Search

www.m365thinking.com/post/using-a...

21.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Now PnP can use alternating background colors, just like in classic search ;-)

This is not a huge feature, but the Details List layout does not expose the index property, so we couldn't customize the layout to do that. Now it is part of the out of the box layout

Available in the next version

19.05.2025 13:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ignoring good architecture IS absolutely an option, it just requires that you switch to new employer every two years 😉

18.05.2025 10:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Could it be related to the fact that a term can have many labels, one for each language?

15.05.2025 19:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Auto Fill Columns As Site Columns
YouTube video by M365Thinking Auto Fill Columns As Site Columns

New Video available:
It might not be common knowledge but you can actually create an AutoFill Column as a site column, here is how:

youtu.be/3nZVGvvsuM8

14.05.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

according to admin.microsoft.com#/serviceheal... the issue should have been resolve now

14.05.2025 05:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Pnp Search webpart are not displaying on SharePoint Online page · Issue #4361 · microsoft-search/pnp-modern-search Version used Ex: 4.13.1.0 Describe the bug Today when we log into SharePoint sites we are not able to see any result from existing pnp search webpart. We try to create the new page with search webp...

see github.com/microsoft-se... for the current issue

13.05.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to report a Search issue to Microsoft Support without getting it rejected! Once in a while you might have to create a Support Ticket with Microsoft Support, and if the issue is related to: • Content not showing up in Search • Mappings not taking effect • The Search index con...

No results from SharePoint Search?

We have received a number of reports that PnP Modern Search has stopped working and no results have been returned.
However, I suggest using the guide below to verify whether this is a Microsoft issue or not (hint, it often is)
www.m365thinking.com/post/how-to-...

13.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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How to report a Search issue to Microsoft Support without getting it rejected! Once in a while you might have to create a Support Ticket with Microsoft Support, and if the issue is related to: • Content not showing up in Search • Mappings not taking effect • The Search index con...

Reporting search issues to Microsoft Support can be daunting. In this blog post, I walk through some do's and don'ts to ensure that you are not being rejected, and will get your issue resolved.
Read more at: wix.to/knsr9km

#MicrosoftSupport #SearchSolutions

21.04.2025 17:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Noticed something unusual in the MGT Person Card below?

Yes, it is used as a hover card in the default PnP Modern Search, but now Modern Search provide the Localization for the MGT content too😁

Expect more on this from the author, @patrikhellgren.bsky.social soon

#PnPModernSearch

18.04.2025 13:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ready for a new season, and no, it is not mine, it's the wife's 😁

16.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Couldn't agree more, unfortunately

16.04.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Off for the next 8 days (Easter vacation) and the first day has been magnificent, sun and no wind, and now it is time for a sundowner.
@richcampbell.bsky.social it is Stauning time, not Suntory time 😆

12.04.2025 17:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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