Posts from July 2018

Posts from July 2018 (7)

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  Published on

  2018-07-31 9:40 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  deploymentsharepointsharepoint-add-insharepoint-online

  Solving the "Tenant app deployment is only supported in the app catalog site." error

  I got an error stating that the "Tenant app deployment is only supported in the app catalog site. The current site is not the app catalog site.", even if the current site very much IS an app catalog site? There might be an easy fix! Problem Imagine this: you browse into your fresh SharePoint tenant, open the app catalog, click on an app, try to deploy it, and out comes this error. Tenant app deployment is only supported in the app catalog site.

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  Published on

  2018-07-24 11:14 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  permissionssharepoint

  Solving "Sorry, your files couldn't be uploaded. The upload might be too large or the server might be experiencing high network traffic." in SharePoint

  This is one of the weird issues that you don't really run into in your own development environments, but that you more often run into when you actually have non-godlike permissions. Oh, the woes of trying to use SharePoint with anything less than farm/global administrator... :) Anyway, in this post, I'll describe a couple of solutions to an error: "Sorry, your files couldn't be uploaded.

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  Published on

  2018-07-18 2:16 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  localizationsharepoint

  SharePoint Localization - a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!

  This article describes the localization/multilingual capabilities of SharePoint, and your options as an organization using it to achieve a seamless and user-friendly experience for your end-users and content editors. SharePoint's definitely a powerful platform, but its multilingual features might leave a bit to be desired - and using them successfully requires some understanding of the platform!

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  Published on

  2018-07-16 8:18 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  on-premisespnppowershellpowershellsharepointsharepoint-2013sharepoint2016sharepoint-onlinewebpart

  5 ways to enable Custom Scripts for a SharePoint site collection

  This article explains how to enable custom scripting for any SharePoint site collection. This is functionally equivalent to setting setting "-DenyAddAndCustomizePages 0" or disabling the NoScript feature. Different instructions and solutions apply to SharePoint Online, and on-premises scenarios (SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and probably 2019) - so see below for all of them.

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  Published on

  2018-07-11 8:38 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  adalazureazure-ad

  Fixing an "AADSTS70005" issue by enabling the implicit authentication flow for your Azure AD app

  This article explains the most typical reasons why you might get an error with an "AADSTS70005" code, and how to fix it. Spoiler alert - it usually just requires enabling Azure AD implicit grant flow for authentication! And let me show you - step by step - how to do that. Reason Another day, another Azure Active Directory error! So what exactly is this AADSTS70005 all about?

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  Published on

  2018-07-09 11:24 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  classicsharepointsharepoint

  How to show more than 30 categories on Classic SharePoint blog/news sites?

  Imagine this: you're using a good old SharePoint blog site, and have a bunch of categories in use. That's nice and easy - SharePoint offers the categorization functionality natively, and it works decently. Problems arise when you have a lot of categories, though - not all of them will be shown. Even if you tweak the web part to show more items on a page, this isn't reflected on the whole blog site! This article explains how to fix this in a couple of simple steps!

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  Published on

  2018-07-06 8:50 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredeployment

  Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”

  This post describes how to fix the error, where when publishing Azure Functions or Azure App Services you get an error like this: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.” This is luckily another straightforward fix! Problem Azure Function Publish fails with a message: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.

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