sharepoint

This article is my love letter to the 25-year-old workhorse in the Microsoft ecosystem - SharePoint. Let me take you on a wild ride through my personal journey and love-hate relationship with SharePoint!

In this article, I'll show you how to get notified by Graph API about the latest changes like file updates in your SharePoint document library.

This is not my typical blog post, where I introduce a problem, talk a little bit about the background, dive in to the technical stuff, rant for a while and then explain how to get around the issue (or even fix it!

In this article, I'll get back to basics of KQL in SharePoint Online's Search Service, and explain how to target a Managed Metadata term and its children.

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 one possibly reason why some C# code, powered by CSOM, suddenly stops working and can't access a SharePoint list anymore that it could before, throwing annoying and misleading exceptions like "The list is not DocumentLibrar...

This article explains how you can remove a big batch of files from a library using either the UI or PnP PowerShell.

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...

Exciting news right after the Easter break (and a bit of a change from the usual flow of technical stuff) - I've joined the Omnia team at Precio Fishbone.

This article explains how to get rid of sudden and unexplainable 401 Access Denied errors when trying to authenticate against a fairly fresh Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Online tenant.

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 post describes the typical reasons why one might encounter the following error, and the ways I've found to fix them: " Failed to load component.

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 article explains how to add multiple aliases to one managed property in SharePoint Search Schema Management. Yes, it's possible, just a bit unintuitive! I'll explain the process below.

This article describes one way how to fix seemingly non-sensical " Access denied " errors, that you get when running Set-PnPAvailablePageLayouts .

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.

If your customers are anything like ours, some of them love the new modern library view, some will adjust and some just hate it and want to get as far away from it as possible.

I've been posting about different localization/globalization / multilingual options of SharePoint for quite some time.

This post is about two of my favorite tools: Chrome SP Editor, and SharePoint Search Query tool. Or maybe better yet, an amalgamation of the two! Description I've mentioned the Chrome SP Editor before, and for a good reason.

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 article explains how to fix error 2147024891 (or sometimes -2147024891), "System.UnauthorizedAccessException" when accessing functionality in SharePoint that's built on top of SOAP Web Services.

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.