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Spell it out (or why my Everyone But External Users or Everyone gets removed automatically from a modern Site group membership)
This is a recurrent one mostly coming from experienced SharePoint Admins that see their configured...
Date: 02/28/2019
What's with these weird account GUIDs ? 00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000
It may happen from time to time to stumble upon weird GUID accounts in your logs. They will resemble...
Date: 01/07/2019
Save Modern sites as template, yes we can but should we?
NO. Saving Modern sites (while do-able) is not supported. The first hint that it's not supported is...
Date: 11/30/2018
Why do some of the lists and libraries I create only work in classic experience in SharePoint Online?
You've surely been there: In your SharePoint Online environment, you have set-up the modern...
Date: 11/05/2018
DO NOT RENAME ITEMS FROM SHAREPOINT IN QUICK ACCESS ON WINDOWS 10
I cannot stress it enough. Seriously DO NOT! A bit of going back in time. Remember the days of...
Date: 10/02/2018
Can I fix my event receivers in SharepointOnline ?
I was looking for a solution. Found none documented , therefore, here it is. Consider the following...
Date: 09/12/2018
Why don't I get alerted when an item is added ?
A fair question if you set to be notified when a document is added on a document library and you...
Date: 06/18/2018
Word Quick Parts and Sharepoint
Here is a nice and neat feature to surface some document properties that usually live in the...
Date: 06/08/2018
The first steps
The very first steps to connect to Sharepoint Online with Powershell are: load the required dlls for...
Date: 11/23/2017
Setting up PowerShell for SPO
The very first thing you want to do is to get the required SharepointClient dlls. You have the...
Date: 11/23/2017
Starting a new chapter : CSOM PowerShell scripts
Since a while now I am supporting Sharepoint Online, I gathered with the time a set of scripts that...
Date: 11/23/2017
Site Content and Structure is broken.. or is it ?
You may run occasionally into this, so I thought this post could save you some long troubleshooting...
Date: 02/21/2017
Sharepoint Online External Users:
You always wanted to be able to allow users external to your company to collaborate on documents...
Date: 06/20/2016
O365 Internet Explorer Protected Mode and security zones
One of the important settings often disregarded that can cause a lot of confusion as to whether the...
Date: 06/20/2016
Yes you can reach the developers directly.
We all knew that SharePoint online will be fast, better, will have new features deployed more...
Date: 05/17/2016
Share a list externally ? Not directly.
Another gotcha for you: SharePoint Online has a great feature that enables your company to interact...
Date: 05/02/2016
Number of views (and forms) limit when creating a list from template
A gotcha I stumbled upon a couple of days ago: I created a list with 100 views and saved it as...
Date: 03/18/2016
Modified By Column does not get updated
Have you ever seen the following behavior ? You create a new document library and start uploading...
Date: 08/04/2015
Getting the feature names available on the server
One script that comes in handy when you have the following type of issue ( rare but it happens )....
Date: 05/13/2015
Format SQL script
It has little to do with Sharepoint per se but I find it very useful to format the ugly scripts: And...
Date: 04/29/2015
List saved as template does not appear under Add an app or what lists can you save as template and use for creating other lists based on them.
You are trying to achieve the following : save a list as template, export the saved stp file and...
Date: 09/08/2014
mpp files stored in SharePoint open read only in Project Client
Since I encountered this ever recurring question on our internal community sites and no clear...
Date: 07/25/2014
why would listdata.svc return an error
With the new features in Excel like PowerQuery, you can get the data from Sharepoint lists and...
Date: 06/30/2014
"The infopath form template for the selected content type cannot be loaded"
A quick one for you. If at some point you developed an InfoPath form and deployed it on your...
Date: 01/16/2014
You do not have access to this page
This can happen if you are a Visitor to a publishing enabled site and the master pages are not...
Date: 10/25/2013
This web site has been configured to disallow editing with SharePoint Designer
Here's one for you: Trying to open any page with Sharepoint Designer results in "Web Site Editing is...
Date: 10/25/2013
Sharepoint 2013 after importing a Design Package the users receive "The user does not have permissions"
A new neat feature in Sharepoint 2013 is the Design Manager. A quick and easy way to create Design...
Date: 09/27/2013
Task aggregation in SharePoint 2013. How does it work. Scenarios and supportability.
One of the important features in SharePoint is the ability to have an overview of the tasks assigned...
Date: 05/06/2013
The user does not exist or is not unique
I have seen this not only once so I thought it's worth a couple of lines to (potentially) save some...
Date: 04/02/2013
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEndpointAddressNotFoundException: There are no addresses available for this application
Ran into this message and I thought it would be nice to share the resolution. Consider the following...
Date: 03/18/2013
Media Player Web Part in SharePoint minimum size ( or, there is more than one way to skin the media player web part )
Let’s say you want to use the Media Player web part to enhance your web site by playing an audio...
Date: 10/23/2012
Page not found 404 on Default.aspx
Why do you receive a 404 when trying to visit Default.aspx on your SharePoint Site ( among other...
Date: 08/27/2012
SQL-Network Performance problems when orphan solutions are still present in the database
Consider the following scenario: You have deployed a number of solutions on your Sharepoint Site....
Date: 08/24/2012
404 error on a Sharepoint Site : COMException (0x80004005) : The operation cannot be completed successfully
Here's one behavior that you might see. Since the error is not that enlightening and the logs do not...
Date: 08/13/2012
My Colleague Tag , or “there is no timer job…”
The question that generated this post was: “What timer job needs to run in order for the Colleagues...
Date: 06/13/2012
There is no Farm
One interesting topic was suggested a couple of days ago by a colleague of mine. As ...
Date: 02/10/2012
What is the maximum value one can set for the Large-file-chunk-size ?
Ran into this a couple of days ago and I thought I'd share the knowledge , just in case you are...
Date: 01/13/2012
Sharepoint 2010 UserProfile
If you ever run into the following behavior : Create the Mysite under a managed path , say...
Date: 11/30/2011
Warm-up script
So , you are in need of a warm-up , and do not want to invest in writing and deploying a...
Date: 05/23/2011
People search results returns sps3:// instead of https://
Talking about odd behaviors or things that one can configure and have unexpected results in...
Date: 08/18/2010
Crawl / Indexing logging categories
Found yourself in the position of wanting to find out what is going on on the server when you are...
Date: 05/12/2010
Error in the sitedata webservice
Here's a troubleshooting tip for you all having problems figuring out the hidden meaning of the...
Date: 05/12/2010
Timer jobs missing ( too many CPUs)
Ran into a funny behavior these days, checking the timer job status on a Sharepoint server ( totally...
Date: 05/11/2010
Crawl taking indefinitely to complete
Came across this a couple of times and, unfortunately there is no easy way out of it. Here is the...
Date: 01/15/2010
Crawl schedules do not work
One issue you might have encountered after experiencing some Search problems.Although everything...
Date: 08/26/2009
Profiles don’t get imported from AD
I ran into this while attempting to import the profiles and playing with my managed properties in...
Date: 08/17/2009
This Site scope does not return any results
Noticed something weird the other days: I was fiddling around managed properties in my search...
Date: 08/06/2009
"The language is not supported on the server. "
If you, like me had the chance of re-installing SharePoint (with all the language packs that you...
Date: 08/06/2009
Search crawl issues after installing .NET 3.5 SP1
A number of issues with crawling content in SharePoint was observed since installing .NET 3.5...
Date: 06/04/2009