I’ve been doing quite a bit of work lately with remote code execution for SharePoint Online (SPO) to deploy artifacts (sites, webs, columns, content types, etc.). While the OfficeDev PnP project on GitHub is the definitive way to go and we should all be following those patterns for large-scale SPO dev efforts, much of what…
Ok, so there’s no “official” guidance. Generally, the message has been “you need to wait.” As you may know, we currently have no way to initiate a full/incremental crawl of content in SharePoint Online. Unfortunately, outside of that statement, Microsoft hasn’t provided any “official” guidance on the topic. In troubleshooting a recent issue, I opened…
A very useful new update has been rolled out to list toolbars in SharePoint Online. If you’ve gotten sick of the ellipsis (…), then you’ll appreciate how handy this is. To see the updated toolbar, navigate to a list or library. You’ll see something that looks familiar, but notice the More drop-down on the far…
First, I’m not a networking guy so if this steps on some best practice please comment below on a better solution. For a recent customer, a new domain (we’ll say contoso.com) was setup for both internal and external access. The customer found that employees within the company network were not able to access the…
In SharePoint 2013 On Premise, I was having some trouble with my search service. Initially, I was unable to crawl a site so I recreated my Search Service Application. I fixed the crawl issue, but then we could no longer launch Query Builder from the site collection.
Scenario I ran into this when deploying an event receiver that would update the master page of all sites (SPWeb objects) when activated in a particular site collection (SPSite object). Accessing referenced file from is not allowed because the reference is outside of the App Web. Problem The problem is described and resolved here: http://mctalex.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/powershell-fix-for-app-master-problem.html.…
On December 19th, Microsoft announced the removal of the public website feature from SharePoint Online. Of course, it’s not really a full removal, but the feature is transitioning over to unknown third-party offerings…unknown, that is, until today. Today, Microsoft announced that Wix.com and GoDaddy.com are two of the available third-party offerings and there are more…
I work on a variety of computers at home and at work and it’s a pain to have to reconfigure the same applications over and over and over again. In this example, I’d like to show you how you can store your dictionary used by Microsoft Office in SkyDrive to create one universal dictionary for all…
When working with the Azure AD Sync Services Tool (a.k.a. DirSync)
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