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  2019-08-16 7:54 a.m.

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  koskila

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  CanadaExpatMontrealexpatAnnouncement

  Au revoir Canada, bonjour Finland.. Eh?

  Is this seriously my first ACTUAL post about Canada? What a major gap in my content! However, living in Canada has been fairly hectic (with the work, family and trips), so I haven't been able to write much about our life here - unlike when we were living in the States . Which, conveniently, brings me to the main point of this rambling - This post works as an announcement of sorts: I'm wrapping up my life in Canada, and moving back to Finland.

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  2019-08-13 11:06 a.m.

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  ModernSharePointSharePointSharePointOnline

  SharePoint Home, Hub, Sites, Start... What?

  This article explains the current terminology that Microsoft uses around your different pages in SharePoint. Or at least tries to - and do that in a way that's faithful to the current, flat & Modern world. Microsoft has been known for its less-than-stellar track record of figuring out easy and descriptive names for their products.

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  2019-08-11 7:05 a.m.

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  koskila

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  SessionsSPSCLTSPSCLT19

  Thanks for coming to my session at SPS Charlotte 8/10/2019!

  This is just a quick update to share my materials from my SharePoint Saturday Charlotte 2019 session. What a fun event - and a cool city! It was a pleasure getting to know the local community and visiting a new state. Thanks to the local user group (and the conference organizers) for having me! Charlotte - what a beautiful city! Charlotte seems like a really lively city.

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  2019-08-10 12:18 p.m.

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  koskila

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  SharePointFrameworkSPFxVSCode

  How to Teamsify an SPFx solution?

  This post describes how you can modify your SPFx webparts to make them compatible with usage in Microsoft Teams. I'm also showing some basic ideas of what you can do in the code to make the integration more useful! Why would we do this? Who wouldn't want to just develop once and then run their code everywhere? Now with SPFx (SharePoint Framework), 1.8 being out (and 1.9 being out for a while before being pulled!

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  2019-08-06 11:42 a.m.

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  koskila

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  SharePointFrameworkSPFxMicrosoftTeamsM365

  How to solve the error "Property 'microsoftTeams' does not exist on type 'WebPartContext'."

  This article explains how to fix an issue where you're just minding your own business, trying to access the Microsoft Teams context in your SPFx webpart's WebPartContext via the built-in property microsoftTeams, but you run into an issue. Simple stuff, but it's still easy to run into this one, so I think it's worthwhile to document the solution somewhere. Problem Most likely, the line causing you issues looks something like this: this.context.microsoftTeams.

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  2019-08-02 10:01 p.m.

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  SessionsSpsSPSCLTAnnouncement

  Speaking at SPS Charlotte 8/10/2019!

  I got an awesome, (kind of) last-minute opportunity to join a crew of awesome speakers at SharePoint Saturday Charlotte (NC) on the 10th of August, 2019, and I was super happy to jump on it! I'll be presenting about extending Microsoft Teams with some SPFx goodness. Last time, the session spurred so many questions I had trouble keeping up - pretty awesome! Having never been to Charlotte, I'm super excited about this trip.

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  2019-08-02 8:06 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AspNetCoreNetCoreNetCore3DevEnvironment

  How to resolve build failing with .NET Core 3 and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Versioning

  Whilst building a proof-of-concept on .NET Core 3.0 preview 7 I ran into issues when developing web APIs. This release is production-ready (according to Microsoft -see below), but every now and then you run into really unintuitive and sometimes surprising issues. Go Live NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is supported by Microsoft and can be used in production. We strongly recommend that you test your app running on Preview 7 before deploying Preview 7 into production. If you find an issue with .NET Core 3.

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  2019-07-23 11:44 a.m.

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  koskila

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  PowerShellWindows

  How to resolve issues when loading DLLs in PowerShell?

  This post describes a few different things that can (and will) go wrong when you're trying to load DLLs in PowerShell , and a couple of ways you can try to fix them. Typically, you'd run into an error message like "Exception calling LoadFrom with 1 argument(s): Could not load file or assembly.... " These issues most typically arise when you're running a PowerShell script that depends on certain DLLs to be loaded (to then execute some of the methods from them).

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  2019-07-18 11:21 a.m.

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  koskila

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  npmSharePointFrameworkSPFxVSCodeDevEnvironment

  How to update SharePoint Framework for an SPFx webpart?

  Instead of being stuck on whatever version your SPFx project was originally created with, it's possible and sometimes required to upgrade it afterward to gain access to newer functionalities like integration with Microsoft Teams. This process, to me, is comparable to updating the .

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  2019-07-16 6:33 p.m.

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  koskila

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  PowerShellOfficeGroups

  How to resolve the error "The alias is being used by another group in your organization"

  Okay - another simple one. When you're creating a new Office Group (or "Unified Group", as they're called as well), you might get an error for the alias already being used. Pretty simple, but still - let's see how to fix it. Problem So, this error pops up, while you're trying to create a new Office Group: The alias is being used by another group in your organization. Please try a different alias.

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  2019-07-10 6:33 a.m.

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  AspNetCoreCSharpAspNet

  How to fix Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers not being rendered!

  Ha - another one, that ended up being a simple fix, but since nobody actually explains it well, took me an hour to figure out. This post ended up being another example of my "I'm going to document every single fix that took me more than 10 minutes to figure out, since that'll help me (and others) the next time the same issue arises." blogging strategy. Snappy name, right? 😅 Ah, well, naming things is really, really difficult. Anyway, I ended up banging my head to the wall for a while.

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  2019-07-09 10:39 a.m.

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  koskila

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  GitGitHub

  Sync local repo with the original on GitHub (Git merge upstream)

  This is one of those "note to self" -kinds of entries. This workflow is probably so natural to a lot of you all, that you won't need to ever google it - but since I don't do that much development using git with the full "fork - clone - branch - submit pull request" -process (which is really typical with GitHub - and I guess Open Source in general), I always need to look up the instructions on how to add pull any changes from the original repository to yours.

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  2019-07-03 10:13 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AuthenticationAzureAD

  How to fix "AADSTS700054: response_type 'id_token' is not enabled for the application" error

  Another day, another unsuccessful authentication attempt, and another cool error code. I encountered his one whilst building a little POC that was supposed to authenticate against Graph API. This time, I was thrown an "AADSTS700054" error... But no worries! This article will explain to you how to fix it, at least in a couple of different cases! :) Problem When developing your client-side solution (an SPFx web part, React app, ASP.NET MVC application with some client-side components...

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  2019-07-01 5:45 a.m.

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  AzureAD

  How to fix an "AADSTS500113: No reply address is registered for the application" error?

  This article describes how to fix the " AADSTS500113 : no-reply address is registered for the application " error. You typically get this error, when your app is trying to authenticate your users against Azure Active Directory. I have been posting about different versions of the Azure Active Directory authentication errors (different errors with AADSTS -codes) a lot - I'll need to find a better way to categorize them in the future. But, for now, onto the issue!

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  2019-06-26 9:25 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureFunctions

  How to enable verbose logging for Azure Functions?

  This post describes how you can easily enable debug/verbose information for your Azure Functions for a lightweight and built-in way to extract just a bit more information out of your Azure Function executions. There are different methods available for Azure and your local development environment. Problem Azure Functions are awesome. But by default, your tools for gathering information without some additional configuration are not that great.

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  2019-06-19 7:07 a.m.

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  SharePointFrameworkSPFxVSCode

  SPFx webpart fails with "Failed to load component - - There was a network error."

  SPFx development is a bottomless bag of funsies! This article describes yet another way how to fix the error with your SPFx webpart failing to load a module. In this case, you'll get an error that starts with the generic "Failed to load component" -part, but contains "There was a network error" later in the stack. I've written about this before, but I keep running into new ways to mess up, so I'll keep documenting the solutions as well!

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  2019-06-17 8:45 p.m.

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  Sessions

  Thanks for coming to my session at SPS Nashville 2019!

  I had the honor of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Nashville 2019 again, and it was a lot of fun! I had the chance to meet a lot of new (and some “old”) people. And what a crowd - so many (difficult) questions about SPFx & Teams development... 😬😂 (Don’t want to crawl through the jabbering? Just here for the materials? Well, they are here: SPS Nashville 2019 materials . Thanks for your interest!

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  2019-06-13 4:01 a.m.

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  BraveBrowserWarsMicrosoftEdgeOpinion

  The boring version of browser wars is upon us

  The next browser war is upon us, and this time it isn't fought on the battlefield of proprietary API implementations and badly implemented CSS and JavaScript standards, but rather it's different ecosystems battling it out with their respective variants of Blink, which itself is a part of open source Chromium. Sounds boring, right? And to some extent it really is.

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  2019-06-12 9:33 a.m.

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  SPFxMicrosoftTeams

  Extending Microsoft Teams is now officially awesome

  This article is something of a combination of a technology overview and an opinion piece, detailing my thoughts about extending Microsoft Teams. To me, extending Microsoft Teams has pretty much only now become relevant. Before, the palette was still quite unfinished, but now we're definitely getting to a point where there are meaningful and cost-effective extension scenarios to cover most of the relevant use cases for most organizations.

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  2019-06-04 9:12 a.m.

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  koskila

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  SPFxMicrosoftTeamsM365

  How to resolve "Error initializing application. Error: ***Manifest not found for component id [guid]." when adding an SPFx webpart to Teams?

  This article describes one way to fix the issue, where uploading and sideloading an SPFx webpart in Microsoft Teams just brickwalls you with a fairly non-descriptive error, and no way to proceed. Luckily, this is usually simple to fix - I'll describe 2 different solutions I've found so far! Problem You've got a SPFx webpart, that you've packaged as a Teams extension. You can even find it from Teams extensions, but while adding it as a tab, you run into issues.

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  2019-06-03 12:56 p.m.

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  koskila

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  BATBlockchainBraveCryptocurrenciesEthereumMicrosoftOpinion

  Enter the BRAVE new world of Chromium forks!

  I'm trying out new, more long-form content on this blog - tell me what you think about it in the comments section below! This article explains one of the only cryptocurrency initiatives I find to be kind of level-headed - Basic Attention Token - and the browser that's pretty tightly coupled with it, Brave. Note: If you just want to skip all the banter and download the hecking browser, click this .

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  2019-05-15 4:27 a.m.

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  koskila

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  M365CDNSharePointSPFxMicrosoftTeams

  SPFx | Failed to load component.

  This post describes the typical reasons why one might encounter the following error, and the ways I've found to fix them: " Failed to load component. Original error: ***Failed to load path dependency ContosoSPFxWebPartLocalization from component [guid] (ContosoSPFxWebPart) ". The error typically looks something like this in the screenshot below: "Something went wrong" when loading your SPFx webpart. What do? [SPLoaderError.

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  2019-05-06 7:18 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ModernSharePointSharePointSharePointOnline

  How to resolve the "You cannot edit this page"-error in Modern SharePoint

  This article describes an error situation that you might run into in Modern SharePoint, where you cannot take a page into edit mode anymore. You only get a strangely generic error message with a kinda weird failed request in the console. But, of course, there's a fix - and an easy one at that! Problem Huh - so here's a weird one for you!

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  2019-05-02 9:59 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ActiveDirectoryADFSAzureAD

  "Connecting to site failed: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character.", when trying to connect to SharePoint Online

  This was a peculiar case! A cloud-based "service account" (in quotes, since it's really just a non-personal user account) on a tenant with ADFS enabled started suddenly getting this error while running console programs configured as scheduled tasks. Connecting to site failed: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character.

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  2019-04-29 1:47 p.m.

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  SessionsSpsSPSNashvilleAnnouncement

  Speaking at SPS Nashville 6/15/2019

  Exciting news to share again! My session on using SPFx to extend Microsoft Teams got accepted to SharePoint Saturday Nashville next June. I'm excited to return to the Music City - it was a lot of fun last time , and I have a new session to present this time! Correction: The title has been fixed - it used to say 6/16, but the event is on 15. SharePoint Saturdays are typically on Saturday 😁 Thanks for pointing that out! What will I be speaking about?

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