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Posts from December 2018 (4)

Published on

2018-12-28 10:58 a.m.
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koskila
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blogging wordpress

Thanks for an amazing 2018!

The year 2018 is drawing to an end, and it's a good time for some reflection on what an interesting year it's been! Personally, quite a few things have happened in the last 12 months - I moved to Canada, started a new/old job, became a father, spoke at awesome events, and met a lot of cool people - just tons of awesome stuff. But personal things aside, 2018 has been an interesting and rewarding time to be writing this blog ! 2018 was the year when the site kind of took off.

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2018-12-18 11:02 a.m.
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koskila
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licensing microsoft office-365 onedrive

The Scary Anatomy of a Microsoft License Fraud

Note : While this was originally posted around the Christmas of 2018, and some company or seller names might not be relevant as scammers come and go, the principles in this blog post seem to be valid from the early 2000s to probably until 2038 (when the Internet ends due to the Epochalypse). For those of you, who don't want to read any extra fluff, let me just offer you this extra-short version of my article in FAQ form: Is Office 365 lifetime subscription a scam? Yes.

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Published on

2018-12-11 11:40 a.m.
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koskila
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pnppowershell powershell sharepoint sharepointadmin sharepointappcatalog sharepoint-online

How to fix Add-PnPApp failing with an Access Denied error

This was a peculiar case! An issue I hadn't run into before, and luckily a disturbingly simple fix. But first, let's set up the scene: We were running a long-ish PowerShell script using a Global Administrator account. One part of the script was supposed to add and deploy a couple of SharePoint apps. But while running Add-PnPApp , we ran into errors: Add-PnPApp -Path $path -Scope $app.Scope -ErrorAc… , Error: {"error":{"code":"-2147024891, System.

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Published on

2018-12-05 2:42 a.m.
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koskila
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classicsharepoint permissions sharepoint sharepoint-online

Subsite creation in SharePoint fails with error 0x80070005 for any user (even global/farm admins!)

This issue seems to pop up bafflingly often, so I thought that it was finally time to document it for future generations. Granted, it mainly considers Classic SharePoint (which is very tightly built around Publishing features) - but Classic is going to be part of our lives for quite a while still, especially for those of us still primarily on SharePoint Server!

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