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This article explains a solution to a puzzling problem, where you might be the owner of a SharePoint site and have all the imaginable permissions on a Document Library, but still be unable to share a single item, let alone a folder with edit permissi...

This article explains how to use some archaic PowerShell magic to configure a custom 404 page for your Modern SharePoint Online Communication site. If you've been working with SharePoint for a while, this property might be already familiar to you.

Whilst running some SharePoint Online PowerShell commandlets, or connecting to a SharePoint Online site from your app, you get the following (or similar) error about your SharePoint Online credentials being unauthorized for something you should defin...

This article explains a kind of weird fix to a pretty annoying issue with a legacy service. And I'm not just calling it legacy because it's WCF - I'm calling it legacy because it's old.

New Microsoft Lists are here!. They are awesome, and a great move by Microsoft to reap even more value from the old warhorse. Wait - old warhorse?

Another day, another fun little task in SharePoint Online... :) This time, I needed to be able to migrate 10 or so lists with some very specific fields and plenty of content from one site to another one. What's the best way to do that now?

This article explains how to access the Site Collection App Catalog in SharePoint Online. I mean - yeah, I had to google it after getting back to SPFx dev stuff after a while and realized the first few results were useless. Of course.

This article explains the current terminology that Microsoft uses around your different pages in SharePoint. Or at least tries to - and do that in a way that's faithful to the current, flat & Modern world.

This article describes an error situation that you might run into in Modern SharePoint, where you cannot take a page into edit mode anymore. You only get a strangely generic error message with a kinda weird failed request in the console.

This post describes a simple way to get around the following error while running Connect-PnPOnline: "The sign-in name or password does not match one in the Microsoft account system.

Microsoft is gathering all kinds of telemetric data out of the usage of SharePoint. I ran into an interesting JavaScript file, fp.js , on SharePoint Online doing just that and gathering data.

There are a thousand possible things that can throw a "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException", but fewer things, that are ambiguous enough to be called "Unknown error".

This was a peculiar case! An issue I hadn't run into before, and luckily a disturbingly simple fix. But first, let's set up the scene: We were running a long-ish PowerShell script using a Global Administrator account.

This issue seems to pop up bafflingly often, so I thought that it was finally time to document it for future generations.

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.

First of all: you're right and your eyes are serving you well. It has indeed disappeared. Starting in October, it'll be hidden from end users. Microsoft is retiring the "Site Content and Structure" tool in SharePoint Online.

So, you have a Client Id and a Client Secret, but don't know if they work anymore? Maybe they are expired? Maybe someone removed them? Maybe you copy-pasted them from the wrong Key Vault and they belong to another tenant? No worries!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

Localization and targeting of content in multilingual SharePoint installations is always an issue. SharePoint offers a multitude of ways to profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are foolproof.

Localization and multilingual environments in SharePoint are an endless source of interesting issues and blog post topics. In one case, we had a tenant created originally in English, and a site collection created in Finnish.

This article describes an interesting feature of the Multilingual User Interface in Classic SharePoint .

With the usual configuration of Office 365 and Azure, there might be multiple Azure AD (AAD) instances associated with your subscription.

Have you ever noticed that your SharePoint site just gets slower and slower? That's probably because the performance of Structural Navigation is absolutely horrible, especially vs. Managed Navigation.

This post describes a couple of ways to fix the issue "For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document" .

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..

Microsoft is deprecating, or even removing one of the most widely used features in SharePoint sites - Site Mailboxes. For the end-user, this might not mean much but still requires some additional work from the administration side.

In this post, I'll try to archive everything that you need to download and install to get commandlets like Connect-MsolService working. I've had to do it a couple of times when changing laptops, so it's good to document them somewhere!

This post describes the actual, working, and the fast process of removing a site collection in SharePoint Online using the Remove-SPODeletedSite commandlet in SharePoint Online Management Shell (a flavor of PowerShell).

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 describes my super-simple fix to a weird error about "Identity Client Runtime Library (IDCRL)" failing with federated sign-in when running PowerShell scripts against SharePoint Online.

This post describes a peculiar problem that a customer had. In their intranet, all of their employees had a managed metadata -typed managed property in SharePoint User Profile Service and a mapping from that property to RefinableString31.

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).

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 .