Mario's Mo' Betta Blog
A tech journal with all my tricks for making things mo' betta. I work for Microsoft. Posts are my own opinions
SharePoint Online Sandboxed Solutions Disabled
Credit to Brian Jackett who let us know about this change. The Office Dev Center released this post...
Date: 08/02/2016
O365 PowerShell error "DTD is prohibited in this XML document"
I was trying to admin an Office 365 E3 tenant from my home office. I followed the instructions...
Date: 06/05/2016
The Mystery of the missing OneNote Section Group
This happened in OneNote 2016 but I imagine it's the same on 2013 as well. I make extensive use of...
Date: 03/07/2016
Upgraded to WordPress, Twitter feed added
Looks like I've been sleeping on the latest changes to the TechNet blogs hosting platform. We've...
Date: 12/11/2015
My Coffee Tips
I know this isn't technology, but I think coffee and techies are spiritually related topics. I...
Date: 06/25/2015
Your Azure credentials have not been set up
I recently upgraded to version 0.8.16 of Azure PowerShell and I got the following error when trying...
Date: 04/22/2015
Shut Down Azure VM’s Automatically
I’m focusing more on Azure Technologies in order to complement my SharePoint workloads. To this end...
Date: 03/13/2015
SharePoint 2007 SiteMap Script
I’ve had to dig up some PS scripts from my SP2007 days and I thought I’d share. Here’s a script that...
Date: 02/11/2015
RIP SharePoint Conference
Yesterday Julie White announced that we will have a new unified event in Chicago in 2015 that will...
Date: 07/22/2014
Multiple Azure Subscriptions
I am working writing a script that leverages with Azure IaaS via PowerShell. I also have access to...
Date: 07/07/2014
Missing Azure PowerShell Features
I had already downloaded the Azure PowerShell modules a while back, and I noticed that the...
Date: 06/30/2014
OneDrive Sharing for Non-Techies
A non-techie colleague though he had shared one of his OneDrive folders with me. The link I got was...
Date: 06/05/2014
SharePoint SP1 Temporarily Pulled.
Yeah, kind of like that. The SharePoint team has temporarily pulled Service Pack 1. Per the...
Date: 04/03/2014
Windows Phone Sync Error 80070057
All of a sudden my Microsoft account (aka outlook.com) would not sync on my Lumia 920 running...
Date: 03/14/2014
Outlook 2013 SP1 Breaks Drag and Drop Email
I installed Office 2013 SP1 today and I noticed that my Outlook client would no longer allow me to...
Date: 02/26/2014
SharePoint Conference 2014
I’ll be attending the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year. This will be my 3rd SPC. I feel...
Date: 02/18/2014
Installing the SharePoint Online Management Shell on Windows 8.1
I’m running Windows 8.1 and attempted to install the SharePoint Online Management Shell. The...
Date: 01/23/2014
All Day Events and GMT
I am observing a weird quirk with All Day events in a SharePoint calendar. The problem is the “All...
Date: 03/22/2013
Passing Parameters to NewForm.aspx
User Story A customer wanted to distribute a survey that would anonymously collect information from...
Date: 03/21/2013
Custom CRUD forms break when list schema changes
Symptom A customer has a list with custom New, Edit and Display .aspx forms. The customer later...
Date: 03/20/2013
Shrink Database Size for SAT
I routinely have to backup and restore databases from customer’s prod environment to the SAT...
Date: 11/02/2012
PowerPivot “Unsupported Features” warning on EWA
Problem An Excel workbook displays the following warning when viewed through Excel Web Access (EWA)...
Date: 08/20/2012
SharePoint 2010 Templates for Government
Microsoft Gold Partner TechSol has released a collection of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online...
Date: 07/16/2012
Account SID’s
If a user's account gets deleted and then re-created with the same name you will have an orphaned...
Date: 07/05/2012
Create InfoPath forms as another user
A customer had an InfoPath form library with hundreds of forms already posted. He encountered an...
Date: 03/28/2012