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Posts from November 2019 (10)

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2019-11-28 5:21 a.m.
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koskila
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delve delveblogs office-365 pnppowershell

How do you migrate your Delve Blogs content to Modern SharePoint?

You might've heard the news - Delve Blogs are on the way out, leaving your users without a blogging platform on Office 365, and their data homeless. And by homeless, I mean deleted pretty soon. And by pretty soon I mean really soon. Might be a good time to start thinking about storing it somewhere else instead!

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2019-11-27 6:18 a.m.
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koskila
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How to export your Delve blogs content?

The news is out - Delve Blogs will be axed, leaving your users without a blogging platform on Office 365, and their data homeless. And by homeless, I mean deleted. Might be a good time to start thinking about storing it somewhere else instead! This post is the second post in my impromptu, Delve Blogs -themed blog series: Part 1: Delve Blogs getting deprecated – what do? Part 2: How to export your Delve blogs content?

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2019-11-26 8:29 a.m.
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koskila
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delve delveblogs microsoft office-365

Delve Blogs getting deprecated - what do?

Last week, Microsoft sent a surprise email to a number of customers. Delve blogs - the hated & loved self-serve internal blogging platform on Office 365 is getting axed. It doesn't really come as a surprise at this point - the service was first announced in 2014, and launched to some hype and appreciation (especially due to the new CMS - authoring canvas - which was a lot of fun compared to Classic SharePoint!) but has pretty much faded away after that.

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2019-11-26 4:07 a.m.
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koskila
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azure-ad msdn

"Unable to service request" when trying to log into a Microsoft website

Okay - so this one is going to be a simple blog post. I'll be explaining an apparent fan favorite! Namely, MSDN forums , MSDN subscriber downloads or other Microsoft web properties are not letting you sign in, but rather throw the following error: Unable to service request Why do you get an error like this? How to resolve it? Background

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2019-11-25 1:06 p.m.
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koskila
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mvpaward mvpbuzz

Awarded MVP for Office Development

Late Friday night a couple of weeks ago, I got an interesting and a bit surprising email from Microsoft. Flabbergasted, I tweeted this right after: Wait, WHAT? First of all, when did #Microsoft learn to write proper Finnish, second of all, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? :D I'm genuinely at a loss of words. Just... Thanks everyone for sparring and pushing me - I'll do my best to be worthy of y'alls trust! 🤩 #MVPBuzz #MVP pic.twitter.com/wn3EMKfrvA — Antti K.

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2019-11-21 8:48 p.m.
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koskila
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c netcore netcore3 nuget

How to solve 'DbContextOptionsBuilder' does not contain a definition for 'UseSqlServer' error in .NET Core?

This is another, kind of a classic and simple solution to a fairly simple problem: How to fix it, when your DbContextOptionsBuilder fails to take in your connection string and complains about UseSqlServer missing or whatever? AI-powered summary: Efficiently Solve ‘DbContextOptionsBuilder’ Error in .NET Core The ‘DbContextOptionsBuilder’ error in .NET Core arises when setting up DbContext. The ‘UseSqlServer’ method is not found during the build. The solution is to add the ‘Microsoft.

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2019-11-19 1:22 p.m.
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koskila
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aspnetcore azure-ad netcore

Iterating Group memberships using Claims in .NET Core

Another case, where there's plenty of documentation, but it just doesn't seem to be comprehensive enough or just doesn't apply for any of the cases that I have - for whatever reason. Maybe my cases are wrong, or I'm just bad at googling, but I've struggled to find a good page documenting this. Perfect case for another blog post about the topic, then - perhaps someone else will find it useful! This post answers the question: How to get Claims for a user in .NET Core?

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2019-11-13 12:58 p.m.
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koskila
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blazor ie11 netcore3

IE11 fails to load a (server-side) Blazor web app

Welp - this was not a fun issue to run into! While nobody in this day and age should use Internet Explorer for any normal usage (occasional legacy scenarios aside), there are still some luddites who do (or whose IT department makes them to). This means it's still useful, and sometimes even required, for a web application to work even in Internet Explorer.

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2019-11-11 1:19 p.m.
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koskila
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entityframeworkcore netcore netcore3

How to create a DbContext from just a connection string?

When you're in your .NET Core project, it's always easy: you just register your DbContext in ConfigureServices, and then inject it into whichever Page, View or Controller you might need it in. However, when you have another project or solution you're working on and you'd still like to use the same DbContext and your entity classes in it, you have to find another way to do it! What should we do, then? Description Let's first take a look at the use cases and tech stack.

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2019-11-01 9:17 a.m.
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koskila
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hacktoberfest hacktoberfest19 matblazor microsoftdocs

Another year, another Hacktoberfest (2019)!

As a lot of the more frequent readers of this blog know, I generally work on proprietary - that is, non-open-source - projects. Whenever I do have some time to dabble in OSS, it's usually for a hobby. This time around, I've been really struggling to find the time to contribute to open-source projects. Last year I had just had a baby - so it's not like I was sleeping anyway.

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