Office 365 - SharePoint - Hidden URLs

Office 365 - SharePoint - Hidden URLs

As a SharePoint or Office 365 administrator have you ever been in a situation that looking for a configuration list and you cannot find it in the site setting?

The news is you are not alone!!

 The reason you cannot find some of the lists is because Microsoft hides many URLs on SharePoint online modern experience.

I’ve gathered the list of hidden URLs as listed below. Hope this list comes in handy and saves you time when browsing SharePoint online!

(Important Note: as Microsoft update Microsoft 365 constantly, I would suggest test all the following links in your test or dev environment before running in the production environment)

Destination	URL
Site Settings	/_layouts/settings.aspx
View All People	/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0
View People and Groups	/_layouts/groups.aspx
Workflow Health	/_layouts/15/workflowservicehealth.aspx
Create new sites, pages, libraries, or lists to this site	/_layouts/create.aspx
Manage Site Collection Admin Permissions	/_layouts/mngsiteadmin.aspx
View Sites and Workspaces	/_layouts/mngsubwebs.aspx
Manage User Permissions	/_layouts/user.aspx
Permission Levels	/_layouts/15/role.aspx
Recycle Bin	/_layouts/RecycleBin.aspx
Second-Stage Recycle Bin (w/ Admin Permissions)	/_layouts/AdminRecycleBin.aspx
Manage Site Content and Structure	/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx
Manage Site Content Types	/_layouts/mngctype.aspx
Manage Site Columns	/_layouts/mngfield.aspx
Quick Launch Settings	/_layouts/quiklnch.aspx
Navigation Settings	/_layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx
Web Analytics Reports (Site Usage Summary)	/_layouts/usage.aspx
Manage Site Collection Features	/_layouts/ManageFeatures.aspx?Scope=Site
Manage Site Features	/_layouts/ManageFeatures.aspx
Application page for registering SP Apps	/_layouts/appregnew.aspx
Enable SharePoint Designer	/_layouts/SharePointDesignerSettings.aspx
Welcome Page	/_layouts/AreaWelcomePage.aspx
Site App Permissions	/_layouts/15/appprincipals.aspx?Scope=Web
List Template Gallery	/_catalogs/lt
Master Page Gallery	/_catalogs/masterpage
Solution Gallery	/_catalogs/solutions/
Web Part Gallery	/_catalogs/wp
Get SharePoint Server Version	/_vti_pvt/Service.cnf
Taxonomy List (Hidden)	Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/AllItems.aspx
Web Part Maintenance Page	?Contents=1
Filter Toolbar (For Lists and Libraries)	?Filter=1
Load Ribbon Tab (In a Document Library or List)	?InitialTabId=Ribbon.Document
Show Page in a Dialog	?isdlg=1
Display List in Grid View (In Document Library or List)	?ShowInGrid=True
Open Page in Edit Mode	?ToolPaneView=2

 

How to disable Social Bar (Like, Views, Save for Later) in SharePoint Online Modern Page

What is the Social Bar?

SharePoint Online Social Bar will appear at the bottom of all current SharePoint Online pages (except for the home page of a site) and will give users the ability to like a page, see the number of views, likes, and comments on a page, as well as see the people who’ve liked the page.

 

Some organizations might decide to turn it off for particular sites (sites level) or across the organisation (tenant level) due to some consideration.

 

How to disable the social Bar

Social Bar by default will be turned on, but SharePoint administrator can turn it off by using PowerShell script in SharePoint Online Management Shell.( If you need more help in regard to how using PowerShell to manage SharePoint online visit the Microsoft guide line here)

Disable SharePoint online social bar on the site collection level

 

Set-SPOSite -Identity $SiteURL -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $True

 

Disable SharePoint Online Social bar on Tenant level

Set-SPOTenant -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $true

 Note:

·      After running this command, the social bar will be removed from bottom of all pages (across the site or tenant depend on your solution), however if you use web part (for example, News web Part, Content Highlights) and click on “see all”, still you the number views will be visible from see all view page.

 

Save List as a template on Modern Team Site (SharePoint Online)

 If you had experience working with SharePoint Server (2016 and older), you probably remember that to reuse customized Microsoft SharePoint lists (fields, formulas, and formatting, and optionally, data as well), we were saving the list as a template in “List Templates Gallery”.

Now if you are working with SharePoint Online and looking to create a List template and reuse it in the different site collection, the first thing you need to remember is, in SharePoint online you don’t need to save the list a template, each list will be kept as one template and it will be accessible across the organization for SharePoint Administrator.  (Note: Site Owner and Team member only can see the lists templates which they have access to.)

Let’s create a New List from a template (Existing list):

1     1- Select Settings, and then select Site contents.

        Note: to create a list from a template (existing list) it is important to create a list from           Site Content Page

2      2- Select + New, and then select List.

S      3- Select the site that has the existing list, then select the existing list.

       When a new list is created from an existing one, the entire list structure is copied,        including views, formatting, and columns. However, the actual content of the original list will not be copied.

4      4- At the top, under Create a list, enter the name for the new list.

          Note: If you want the new list to appear in the site navigation, check the box Show in  site navigation.

S       5- Select Create.