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Recently, a business user reached out to me with an interesting issue: He was unable to create a new library because SharePoint indicated that the library already existed. However, when he checked the Site Contents, the library was nowhere to be found. If you’ve faced a similar problem, here are a few possible solutions to make the hidden library visible again: 1. Check Permissions Ensure that you (and other users) have at least Read or Contribute access to the library. Sometimes the library exists but remains hidden due to restricted permissions. 2. Verify Navigation Settings Go to Library Settings → Navigation . Check if the library is set to appear in the left-hand navigation/quick launch . If not, enable it so the library becomes visible.  3. Confirm Library View The default view may be filtered or misconfigured , hiding all items. Switch to All Documents view or create a new one to confirm visibility.  4. Check Site Contents From the site home...

Introduction SharePoint administrators always want to know which user is accessing any site or site collection extensively and which user has access to the site but not using it. The other site details required are related to traffic, access, edit, etc. The user's behavior changes as per the nature of the site and their working department like project team site, department site, and managerial workspace. Fortunately, Microsoft 365 has given multiple methods to generate or view various reports related to SharePoint usage. We will check all the methods one by one and see how they provide the required results. Several options are available at different parts in SharePoint Site or Admin Center where the Administrator can check status or create reports. Method-1. Check Site Usage in Site Contents Page. The Site contents page shows the analytics data like their unique visitors, total site visits, average time spent by the user, etc. The report can be generated for multiple days like 7, 3...

As you know that the SharePoint is most popular content Management System, it supports office web apps (All MS Office file types) except Visio files. For Visio files, MS has introduced Visio Web Access web part to show the Visio file to a SharePoint page and this works fantastic. Visio Online  Microsoft has now onboard Visio Online as a part of Office Web Apps (All Office 365 users can test in their environment as this in free of cost with their license) Now It’s time to upgrade your existing solution of Visio file in SharePoint web part to Visio online and it also improve the performance of page load that has vision diagram. Visio Online does not impact Visio Web Access Web Part. If you have SharePoint pages in which VWA Web Part has an embedded Visio diagram, they will continue to work. With Visio Online, you have additional capabilities to do the following: Embed a Visio diagram in "Document" Web Part in Modern team site pages. Build mashup solutions using V...