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  2018-04-27 2:46 p.m.

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  koskila

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  sessions

  Materials for my SPS TC session: "Citizen Developer Tools are not just for Citizen Developers" now available!

  Whoops - this post comes quite late, as the session was a couple of weeks ago already. I recently had a session at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (SPS TC for short) and thought I'd share my materials and document my experiences. Oh, and do the shout-outs, since I referenced some materials and tools by some extremely talented people! Don't want to crawl through the jabbering? Just the materials are here . Thanks for your interest, and you're welcome!

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  2018-04-22 11:27 a.m.

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  koskila

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  asp-netazure

  Solving Azure Web Application's first load performance issues

  Is your Azure Web Application suffering from absolutely horrible load times every time someone accesses it for the first time every 15 minutes or so? Mine was. It was pitiful. I was developing a web-based service using EF6 and ASP.NET MVC 5, where all the assets were hosted in Azure.

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  2018-04-09 12:10 a.m.

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  koskila

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  sessionsspsspstc

  Speaking at SPS Twin Cities on 4/14/2018!

  Exciting announcement to make - I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Twin Cities (SPS TC for short) on 4/14/42018! It's one of the biggest SPS events worldwide, and I'm honored my session was accepted on the developer track. I'm really hyped to share some of the cool stuff I've been working on!

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  2018-03-27 11:13 a.m.

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  koskila

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  sharepointsharepoint-2010sharepoint-2013sharepoint2016sharepoint-onlinewebpart

  Opening a web part page in maintenance mode

  Can't access a web part page because of a broken web part? Yeah, that's a classic issue - and it's nicely ported into the Modern world, too! In these cases, web part page maintenance mode comes in handy! There's a query parameter available for accessing it. For whatever reason, it's different for Classic and Modern mode, though. Why make things easy if you can make them difficult, right? :)

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  2018-03-22 4:50 p.m.

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  koskila

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  anonymous-accessauthenticationconfigurationiison-premisessharepointsharepoint-2010sharepoint-2013sharepoint2016sharepoint2019

  Troubleshooting: Anonymous access failing for a SharePoint site collection

  Ah, everyone's favorite, classic topic! Debugging SharePoint On-Premises configuration issues is the best thing since sliced bread, right? This post is about allowing/enabling Anonymous Access to a site collection - a simple configuration, that "simply works" like once every ten times you try it. This article describes how to enable anonymous access for SharePoint Server 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 - the procedure is pretty much the same!

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  2018-03-20 3:37 p.m.

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  koskila

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  azureazurefunctionsmicrosoftflowmodernsharepointsharepointsharepoint-online

  Hackathon win: Resolving Managed Metadata Madness

  I won a hackathon! They had fun topics, it was a cool challenge, a well-organized event, and had cool prizes. Since this is the first hackathon I ever took part in, I thought I'd post something about my experience and the solution(s) I figured out. Description I recently took part in a fun hackathon organized by DevPost for Microsoft. Earlier, I posted some info about my hackathon entry, How to Resolve Managed Metadata Madness in SharePoint?

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  Published on

  2018-03-12 3:45 p.m.

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  koskila

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  sharepoint

  How to show a Classic SharePoint page in dialog mode (without SharePoint's full-blown chrome)

  Classic SharePoint actually has a very handy piece of functionality, using which you can hide most of the SharePoint chrome (like header and navigation), and hence make the page a lot sleeker. This is especially useful for showing the contents in a dialog window - which SharePoint also supports natively through JavaScript! This post describes how. How to show any (classic) SharePoint page in dialog mode? Pretty easy - it's handled via a URL parameter!

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  2018-03-02 9:18 a.m.

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  koskila

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  foxittoolswindows

  How to remove Foxit Drive in Foxit Reader?

  If you're like me, you're not using Adobe Reader, but rather switched to Foxit Reader years ago, and never looked back. Foxit has a great PDF printer, it's sleek and for the most part a pleasure to use - in other words, it's a great reader. But it's not perfect. See, the default save location is "Foxit Drive" , and it pops up any time you try to save your document, and at least for me interrupts my workflow. This post describes how to get rid of it, and make Foxit Reader even better!

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  2018-03-01 1:55 p.m.

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  koskila

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  azureazure-adyammer

  Solving error "AADSTS90013: Invalid input received from the user"

  I stumbled upon a customer that complained about some pages in their intranet throwing weird errors with authentication. Those pages seemed to have one thing in common - there was a Yammer embed (or a SharePoint script webpart with Yammer embed script in it, to be precise) there. The error code they got was "AADSTS90013: Invalid input received from the user". Below, you can see an example of the error screen. AADSTS90013: Invalid input received from the user.

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  2018-02-27 12:05 p.m.

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  koskila

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  powershellsharepointsharepoint-2013sharepoint2016sharepoint-online

  Don't remove the root web of your classic SharePoint Site Collection!

  A quick heads-up - if you remove the root site (or RootWeb, like it's called in the code) of your classic SharePoint Site Collection, that's going to cause you some grey hairs. It might even, in some rare cases, be unrecoverable! The following post describes what kind of issues you might run into, if you remove the root web instead of the whole site collection, and how to remove the site collection instead. Update 13.7.

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  2018-02-01 3:09 p.m.

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  koskila

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  loggingpowershell

  How to output console or PowerShell transcript to a file in Windows

  Every now and then, you will run into a situation, where you will need to somehow dump the console output (or transcript) of running a console application. I'm actually going to argue it happens a lot more often than one would think - in my case, any time a customer requires a webjob or a function, that one would normally deploy to Azure, being run on the servers of the customer. You'll need a way to store console (or PowerShell) output into a file. This post describes how to do that.

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  2018-01-16 9:32 a.m.

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  koskila

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  exchangeexchangeonlinegraph-apioffice-groups

  How to solve the "Unified Groups aren't supported." -error

  When trying to use some functionality, that relies on Unified Groups, you're getting errors in the console, similar to this: "Unified Groups aren't supported." In truth, this most likely means, that Unified Groups (that's the internal/technical name for Office 365 Groups ) is not enabled for this particular user . That breaks a bunch of different features for them since the Graph API for Groups of course won't work. This post describes one way to fix this issue! How to solve this?

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  2018-01-12 6:40 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azureazurefunctionsmanaged-metadatamicrosoftflow

  How to Resolve Managed Metadata Madness in SharePoint?

  Using Azure Functions and Cognitive Services Text API to enrich a Flow that fills Metadata for new items in a Modern SharePoint Team Site. That's, in a nutshell, the solution I submitted to a recent online hackathon. Quite a mouthful, isn't it? The whole solution (and a public vote, if you're interested!) is available here: https://devpost.com/software/resolving-managed-metadata-madness-in-sharepoint - this blog post will describe the solution and the reasoning behind it.

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  2018-01-09 5:59 p.m.

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  koskila

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  detectedlanguagelocalizationsharepointsharepoint-onlinesharepoint-search

  Using "DetectedLanguage" to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index

  Localization and targeting of content in multilingual SharePoint installations is always an issue. SharePoint offers a multitude of ways to profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are foolproof. This post describes how to fetch only localized results from the SharePoint Search index, which solves at least some of the issues. Description SharePoint Search index can be used in quite a few different ways.

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  2018-01-07 10:42 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azure-adgraph-apiplanner

  How to form links to Planner tasks

  Office 365 Planner is a neat tool for task management. However, when you, for whatever use case, need to form URLs that point you towards a single task (or a bucket, or a plan for that matter), you might run into trouble with how the URL is formed. Custom domains actually make it a bit complicated, but luckily there's a workaround! Description of the issue If you have multiple domains in your Azure AD, your Planner might end up using your custom domain in its URLs.

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  2017-12-19 1:59 p.m.

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  koskila

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  azureazure-adgraph-api

  Call to sites Graph API requires "owner" permissions for site collection regardless of app permissions

  Okay - yet another weird issue, and a hacky workaround. I was developing an app that was calling a SharePoint site through Graph API, using jQuery $.ajax call (developed in TypeScript), and ran into surprising 401 errors. I did find a workaround but am also working on an actual fix. Description To get SharePoint site ID, which is needed when accessing SharePoint lists, the calls seemed to fail for my test accounts.

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  2017-12-12 12:15 p.m.

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  koskila

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  csommanaged-metadataofficedev-pnp

  How to fix the "The SPListItem being updated was not retrieved with all taxonomy fields" error

  Are you getting an error like "The SPListItem being updated was not retrieved with all taxonomy fields" when you try adding or modifying values in a TaxonomyField of a list item in SharePoint, either using the GUI or with PowerShell or even programmatically? Then read ahead, I've got a quick and dirty solution!

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  2017-12-07 7:53 p.m.

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  koskila

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  sharepointsharepoint-onlinesharepoint-searchsupport

  Alternative Languages in SharePoint forcing the (cumbersome) use of localized Managed Properties

  Localization and multilingual environments in SharePoint are an endless source of interesting issues and blog post topics. In one case, we had a tenant created originally in English, and a site collection created in Finnish. In this particular case, SharePoint somehow messed up the language settings and ended up requiring the use of localized managed property names on the search center of that site collection. Nowhere else, though.

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  2017-12-05 10:17 a.m.

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  koskila

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  classicsharepointlocalizationsharepointsharepoint-online

  How to resolve Webpart title changes not reflecting for some users?

  This article describes an interesting feature of the Multilingual User Interface in Classic SharePoint . So, in short, I encountered another, very interesting feature of Classic SharePoint Publishing sites, where multiple display languages were in use. When changing the web part title on a web part on a Classic SharePoint page, it seems like SharePoint saves the changes for you. In reality, only some users see the changes.

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  2017-11-20 11:57 a.m.

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  koskila

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  adalazureazure-adgraph-api

  4 ways to fix error AADSTS65001 (The user or administrator has not consented to use the application)

  ---------------example-12------------------" rel="nofollow ugc">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/connect-pnponline?view=sharepoint-ps#------------------example-12------------------ approved: true type: comment parent: '27700' userId: '1' id: '27702' author: p whelan email: [email protected] url: '' ip: 54.246.135.213 date: '2020-09-11 10:10:17' content: |- Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Credentials Get-Credential I get the rather perplexing .

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  2017-11-03 7:00 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azure-adconfigurationsharepointsharepoint-online

  How to use the Azure AD associated with your SharePoint Online

  With the usual configuration of Office 365 and Azure, there might be multiple Azure AD (AAD) instances associated with your subscription. When creating registrations to whatever SharePoint-related apps that you might be using, if you create the registration to the wrong Azure AD, it can't access the data in your SharePoint. Or at least without further configurations, it probably won't get any data from your Office Graph API or whatever else you might want to use.

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  2017-10-27 5:46 p.m.

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  koskila

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  adalassemblycmsbuild

  New version of Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory (ADAL.NET) is out - good time to update!

  There's now a new version of the assembly Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory available - plenty of reasons to update right away! Let me offer you one hot take on the matter since the earlier 3.x -versions of the package had some issues. Why bother updating? In an earlier post , I described an issue I had with Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.Platform not getting copied during the build in a referencing project. In 3.17.

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  2017-10-23 5:27 p.m.

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  koskila

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  adalassemblycmsbuild

  A quick (and handy!) hack to force referenced assembly to getting copied to a project

  Visual Studio failing to copy a referenced assembly to a project in build might lead to surprising runtime errors. This post will explain one method of fixing these issues, using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory as the example - as earlier versions of that assembly had this issue! Problem After the build, you might get this kind of error: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.Platform, Version=3.13.1.

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  2017-09-23 12:07 a.m.

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  koskila

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  sharepointsharepoint-onlinesharepoint-performancevalo-intranet

  The effect of using Managed Navigation instead of Structural on SharePoint Online

  Have you ever noticed that your SharePoint site just gets slower and slower? That's probably because the performance of Structural Navigation is absolutely horrible, especially vs. Managed Navigation. This blog post includes our findings about the issue, and I also include some explanation of the reasons behind the difference and a simple comparison to Search-based navigation.

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  Published on

  2017-09-13 8:24 p.m.

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  koskila

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  microsoft-teamsoffice-365

  Solving Microsoft Teams Licensing Error "errorCodeTeamsDisabledForTenantForbidden"

  This post explains how to fix the "errorCodeTeamsDisabledForTenantForbidden" error when trying to add guest users to the Microsoft Teams channel. This issue might arise when a user is invited to a channel in your organization's Microsoft Teams for the first time. Fixing it usually just requires just a flip of a switch, but might also include some waiting. Symptoms You get an error screen like this when trying to join a Teams channel as a guest user.

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