Posts from May 2018

Posts from May 2018 (9)

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  Published on

  2018-05-24 9:09 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  authenticationgooglechromemicrosoftmsdn

  How to log in to Microsoft's websites (MSDN forums, Azure Portal, SharePoint Online) when you get a "Bad Request" error?

  Every now and then, something like half of Microsoft's websites will suddenly stop working - this applies to at least Azure Portal , SharePoint Online sites, MSDN forums, Office Online, and probably a thousand other sites. The error is most of the time something like this: Bad Request - Request Too Long HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long. Or like shown below: Azure Portal throwing an error: "Bad Request - Request Too Long HTTP Error 400.

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  Published on

  2018-05-21 9:06 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  backupsmicrosoftsharepoint-onlinesupport

  A cautionary tale of relying on the automatic backups in SharePoint Online

  Microsoft keeps 14-day rolling backups of your SharePoint Online sites. That's awesome - no need to take backups anymore, right? Not so fast. It's not always so easy, and by just relying on these backups, you risk losing your data. Forever, I might add. This cautionary tale is about SharePoint Online, but I'd say you'll need to take caution anytime you're dealing with Microsoft's automatic backups.

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  Published on

  2018-05-18 12:38 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  classicsharepointie11sharepointsharepoint-2013sharepoint2016twitterapi

  How to fix Twitter embed in SharePoint

  Twitter has always been (relatively) good for developers - except for anyone who'd like to embed anything - hence making it possible to interact with their content on other sites than Twitter. I guess it's understandable, but they seem to hate anyone trying to embed feeds, searches, or anything on their sites. And they express their hate by making the developers' lives more difficult... This time by silently breaking the embed script in a way, that's tricky to work around.

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  Published on

  2018-05-17 10:11 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  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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  Published on

  2018-05-14 10:21 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  adalazure-ad

  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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  Published on

  2018-05-09 1:37 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  classicsharepointsharepointsharepoint-2010sharepoint-2013sharepoint2016sharepoint2019

  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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  Published on

  2018-05-07 11:02 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  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.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  sessionsspsspsnashville

  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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  Published on

  2018-05-03 12:42 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  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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