Posts from January 2016

Posts from January 2016 (3)

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  Published on

  2016-01-29 9:52 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

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  azurenetworksqlvisual-studio

  Fixing error "Cannot open server - - requested by the login. Client with IP address - - is not allowed to access the server." in Azure deployments from Visual Studio

  This article explains how to work your way around the exception 'Cannot open server - requested by login...' The issue is caused by Azure's firewall logic, which might sometimes appear a little bit overzealous for simple development workloads, and might stop you from accessing your databases from your development machine. But just as everything else in Azure, the firewall exists for a reason, and working with it just requires a couple of extra clicks, is all.

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  Published on

  2016-01-21 1:37 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  on-premisespowershellsharepoint-2010sharepoint-2013sharepoint2016sharepoint2019uls

  Using PowerShell to set ULS logging level to "extra verbose" to catch all the events in the logs

  This blog post describes how to set SharePoint's ULS level to "Extra Verbose" (VerboseEx) using PowerShell. This is not possible using the browser UI, so some POSH magic is required! Luckily, it's quite straightforward, but to avoid filling your hard drive(s) with huge log files, you should reset the level when you're done debugging! Description of the solution By default, ULS logging is somewhat non-detailed. This means that a lot of data that could be used to debug issues is omitted.

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  Published on

  2016-01-05 12:02 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  powershellsharepoint-2010sharepoint-2013sharepoint2016spweb

  Using PowerShell to modify anonymous access permissions on SharePoint On-Premises

  This post is about managing Anonymous Access on a SharePoint site (SPWeb) using PowerShell commandlets. It's often a lot more feasible and even easier than using the browser interface! In some cases, it's borderline impossible to avoid it anyway - since accessing the GUI switch might not be possible. Description Assume you have a site collection that you have published to the whole world.

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