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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're clearing out the one notification nobody wants to see: storage full. You’re about to capture the perfect moment and a message pops up: Storage full. The same sentiment applies to a fridge:Nobody means to overstuff it, but a little goes in every day at a faster rate than items come out, until a lemon ends up balanced on the edge of a shelf.

Microsoft ends.agent files in SharePoint and OneDrive after March 2027 (MC1511052). Upgrade paths, the new button, Teams re-add and an admin checklist.

More customers, businesses, and consumers are beginning to care more about where their data is stored, who can access it, and how to keep the cloud private.

Export a SharePoint list to Excel or CSV from the Export menu, how the one-way link works, the 30,000-row CSV limit, and ways to export larger lists.

Create a SharePoint calculated column: where to add it, formula syntax, worked examples for IF, dates and text, and the limits Microsoft documents.

A sovereign cloud is a cloud computing environment designed to keep data, infrastructure, and operations under the control of a specific country or jurisdiction. It helps organizations maintain control over who can access their data and how it is managed. Depending on the provider and service, this may include storing data within national borders, using locally governed infrastructure, and ensuring that operations comply with regional regulations.

SharePoint has 13 communication and 10 team site templates, from Organization home to IT help desk. What each is for, how to apply one and how to make your own.

How a SharePoint Administrator locks a site with Set-SPOSite: ReadOnly, NoAccess and Unlock, how to check the state, and why an unlock command sometimes fails.

What a SharePoint hub site is, the 2,000 hub limit, how to register one in the admin center, who can associate sites, and how to delete or archive a hub.

Why OneDrive stops syncing a SharePoint library: the 300,000-item limit, invalid names, 400-character paths, 250 GB files, read-only libraries and full storage.