Posts from March 2018

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Posts from March 2018 (6)

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2018-03-27 11:13 a.m.
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koskila
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sharepoint sharepoint-2010 sharepoint-2013 sharepoint2016 sharepoint-online webpart

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-access authentication configuration iis on-premises sharepoint sharepoint-2010 sharepoint-2013 sharepoint2016 sharepoint2019

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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azure azurefunctions microsoftflow modernsharepoint sharepoint sharepoint-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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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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Published on

2018-03-02 9:18 a.m.
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koskila
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foxit tools windows

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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Published on

2018-03-01 1:55 p.m.
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koskila
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azure azure-ad yammer

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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