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This article applies to a lot of different issues you might be having with your SharePoint-powered site or even custom functionality like mobile apps using SharePoint's search index.

Every now and then, an API or a method call comes along, that you need to be very careful with. "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web.AddSupportedUILanguage()" seems to be one of them.

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.

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.

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).

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!

Ah, everyone's favorite, classic topic! Debugging SharePoint On-Premises configuration issues is the best thing since sliced bread, right?

A quick heads-up - if you remove the root site (or RootWeb, like it's called in the code) of your classic SharePoint Site Collection, that's going to cause you some grey hairs. It might even, in some rare cases, be unrecoverable!

If you're working on SharePoint deployments, and aren't familiar with the SharePoint Search Query Tool, you're probably doing something wrong. Or you've got a really troublefree tenant and simple requirements..

In this post, I outline a simple way to stop SharePoint (either on-premises installation or SharePoint Online) from redirecting to Delve or MySites (respectively).

Luckily, SharePoint Add-ins (or App Parts, like they were called earlier) are slowly getting killed and rooted out of all the sites they once were deployed to - and I don't think anyone's going to miss them.

This post contains a really small, but nifty tweak to the search box in SharePoint list views. Applies to 2013, and Office 365 (for now).

This blog post describes how to set SharePoint's ULS level to "Extra Verbose" (VerboseEx) using PowerShell. This is not possible using the browser UI, so some POSH magic is required!

This post is about managing Anonymous Access on a SharePoint site (SPWeb) using PowerShell commandlets. It's often a lot more feasible and even easier than using the browser interface!

Have you ever run into this, very non-descriptive and weird SharePoint error message "Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed"?

This post describes how to resolve a kind of cryptic and oddly misdescriptive error message about Parser Error on your ASP.NET application or (an On-Premises) SharePoint site.

Sometimes - pretty often in the good old on-premises world, actually - you'll need to have a copy of all the packages that are deployed to a certain farm.

SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 versions don't have that old and familiar "sign in as a different user" option in the site menu, and for the time being, nor does SharePoint Online .

In this post, I describe how you can figure out if IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) has jumped into compatibility mode. You will run into this requirement every now and then when trying to figure out some SharePoint browser compatibility mess-up.

This post describes the easiest (probably) and most straightforward way of creating a new Thread in your SharePoint (or any other .NET) server-side/desktop code.

At times you may need to allow unsafe updates for SPWeb objects in order to get your code to run. This, in SharePoint's C# full-trust code, is done by setting SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates to true.

This post is about fixing one of the most annoyingly unspecific errors that you can get when activating (Feature Framework) features on SharePoint - "File not found" . Whatever that might mean, right? Problem Ugh.

This post is about a small programmatic workaround to creating new SPFields for SPLists in SharePoint with human-readable internal names.

This post describes how to fix Windows Authentication on a SharePoint server that is failing on other local addresses other than localhost.