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  2018-05-17 10:11 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureConfigurationConsoleAppWebjob

  Fixing an unhandled exception about StructureMap configuration failing (messed up assembly bindings)

  So, you're running a console program, but while you try running it, you get an error like this: " StructureMap.Exceptions.StructureMapConfigurationException ", with a message like this: " Unable to find the exported Type's in assembly " (the typo done by Microsoft, not me). There are a number of reasons for this error, but for a fair share of the time, that's just your assembly bindings being messed up. Luckily, that's another easy fix!

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  2018-05-14 10:21 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ADALAzureAD

  How to fix AADSTS50059: No tenant-identifying information found in either the request or implied by any provided credentials.

  Have you run into the cryptical "AADSTS50059: No tenant-identifying information found in either the request or implied by any provided credentials." error? I have. This post will tell you how to fix it. How to fix AADSTS50059? I encountered this error while trying to reload a page with some JavaScript that authenticates against Graph API.

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  2018-05-09 1:37 p.m.

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  koskila

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  ClassicSharePointSharePointSharePoint2016SharePoint2019SharePoint2010SharePoint2013

  How to show a pop-up in SharePoint

  This ages-old trick deserves to be published - since it makes it easy to quickly show info from pretty much any other page on pretty much any Classic SharePoint page (in a SharePoint-compatible pop-up). So, here goes: Using SharePoint's JavaScript library to open an arbitrary pop-up Yes - SharePoint contains all the functionality out-of-the-box, and you almost don't have to do anything yourself! Let's see how this works. Okay - long story short.

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  2018-05-07 11:02 a.m.

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  koskila

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  CitizenDevelopmentSessions

  Thanks for coming to my session in SPS Nashville!

  I was at Cloud Friday and SharePoint Saturday Nashville 2018 (SPSNash18), and had my session on Saturday - that was a lot of fun! I had the chance to meet a lot of new (and some "old") people, and I think the community liked my session about Citizen Development tools (for "actual developers") quite well!

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  Published on

  2018-05-04 11:10 a.m.

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  koskila

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  SessionsSpsSPSNashvilleAnnouncement

  Speaking at SPS Nashville on 5/5/18!

  This Spring is crazy - so many cool announcements to make! I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Nashville on 5.5.2018. This one's a completely new SPS event for me, and I'm honored that my session was accepted on the developer track! Based on the feedback from earlier sessions, I'm really excited to speak to the community about the cool new toys Microsoft is giving us! :)

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  2018-05-03 12:42 a.m.

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  koskila

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  CitizenDevelopmentSessionsSPSHOU

  Thanks for coming to SPS Houston! Check out the slides and demos :)

  I had an awesome time at SharePoint Saturday in Houston! I had a lot of fun meeting a lot of new people, and I think the community liked my session about Citizen Development tools quite well!

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  Published on

  2018-04-27 7:06 p.m.

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  koskila

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  SessionsSpsSPSHOUAnnouncement

  Speaking at SPS Houston 4/28/18!

  I have another exciting announcement to make - I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Houston on 28.4.2018! It's a completely new SPS event for me, and I'm honored my session was accepted on the developer track with some other really professional speakers. I'm really hyped to share more of the cool stuff I've been working on!

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  2018-04-27 2:46 p.m.

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  koskila

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  SessionsOpinionAnnouncement

  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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  AzureAspNetDevEnvironment

  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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  SessionsSpsSPSTCAnnouncement

  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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  SharePointSharePoint2016WebPartSharePoint2010SharePoint2013SharePointOnline

  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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  AuthenticationConfigurationIISSharePointSharePoint2016SharePoint2019AnonymousAccessOnPremisesSharePoint2010SharePoint2013

  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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  AzureAzureFunctionsMicrosoftFlowModernSharePointSharePointAnnouncementSharePointOnline

  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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  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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  AzureYammerAzureAD

  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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  PowerShellSharePointSharePoint2016SharePoint2013SharePointOnline

  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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  ExchangeExchangeOnlineGraphAPIOfficeGroups

  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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  AzureAzureFunctionsMicrosoftFlowManagedMetadata

  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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  Published on

  2018-01-09 5:59 p.m.

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  koskila

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  DetectedlanguageLocalizationSharePointSharePointOnlineSharePointSearch

  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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  PlannerAzureADGraphAPI

  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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  Published on

  2017-12-19 1:59 p.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureADGraphAPI

  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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  Published on

  2017-12-12 12:15 p.m.

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  koskila

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  CSOMManagedMetadataOfficedevPnP

  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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  Published on

  2017-12-07 7:53 p.m.

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  koskila

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  SharePointSupportSharePointOnlineSharePointSearch

  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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