r/sharepoint • u/bcameron1231 MVP • 5d ago

SharePoint HTML Pages

In case you're looking to learn more about what the HTML pages can and can't do.

Head over to your tenant and hit this page.

https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/_html

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u/Responsible-Leg399 5d ago edited 5d ago

Thank you, bcameron1231. I'm curious how you managed to host this _html article on your https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com SharePoint tenant. I can view it without authentication. Can you please share the trick you are using?

Update: Never mind. Looks like _html page is created by Microsoft and added t all SharePoint tenants. How interesting.

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u/bcameron1231 MVP 5d ago

No worries! Yea... it's an AI generated page from Microsoft outlining the functionality and instructions for the llm's.

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u/bizmas 5d ago

Did you save it? Can you send it to me please? There's no page on my tenant yet

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u/Responsible-Leg399 5d ago

You can see the page in the OP's comment: https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/_html

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u/bizmas 4d ago

Oof thanks, thanks man

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u/bizmas 5d ago

Page not found on my tenant. Can someone fill me in? Yesterday I was trying to understand just a little how SharePoint was rendering HTML files when you open them within SP.  It's some sandbox wrapper app, but nothing is documented. I was going to give Claude a few example HTML files to see what it could figure out, but I would prefer documentation if this is that.

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u/bcameron1231 MVP 4d ago

https://github.com/SharePoint/sharepoint-html/blob/main/

Checkout the references folder! It's everything that's on the _html page

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u/Orbiter9 5d ago

My first test of these capabilities was pretty great - but, after a day of building things out based on some lists with only a 100 items or so, I hit my token limit. This was July - the MS article simply noted that they were throttling this feature for now but options would become available to increase those limits (or so I recall reading). Any insight as an MVP?

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u/bcameron1231 MVP 5d ago

Unfortunately, no I don't have any insight on that.

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u/xGokan MVP 5d ago

I can give you some insights on this, especially since the tool is not GA yet.

From both a technical and economic perspective, Microsoft’s current approach to Copilot is quite different from what you see with Claude or OpenAI, where usage is typically tied to a token-based system. Today, with a single Microsoft Copilot license, you can technically generate millions of prompts without experiencing the same kind of usage-based side effects.

However, Microsoft has introduced some limits, particularly around Copilot usage on SharePoint sites. These limits are temporary, and hopefully, they will evolve with GA.

My expectation and intuition is that, eventually, each Copilot license will come with a defined token allowance. Once you reach that limit, you would potentially be able to purchase additional capacity, similar to the model used by other AI providers.

That said, if you’re a Microsoft partner or a large customer, there are ways to ask Microsoft to lift or increase those limits. In my case, I was able to have the limit lifted for my own usage as an MVP.

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u/bizmas 5d ago

Thanks for the insight. It's going to be interesting seeing what a Microsoft figures out for usage management and observability. With copilot and SharePoint, I think one obvious possibility is site-scoped usage limits. They need to make it so the mental model for usage is easy enough to allow for departments to budget for their own usage in advance. Or something, anything, because I think per-user limits for Copilot in SharePoint will slow adoption. It makes people afraid to prompt in the first place. 

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u/baddistribution 5d ago

Thanks for sharing. Do you have any documentation on this, or the name of the feature?

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u/jkaczor 5d ago

Thanks! (Not enabled on my free "friends & family" tenant - but... enabled on my primary client's tenant - a client who is constantly disabling anything AI-related...)