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This way, the next time I encounter the same issue, I’ll be able to find the solution easier by googling.
This category contains assorted tips, tricks and solutions regarding all the different workarounds and solutions related to technology pretty much in general.
This article explains a quick solution to a pretty common problem with Azure DevOps. Namely – random and annoying 404 (or sometimes 401) errors when trying to access your dear team projects. I forgot to take screenshots of the errors and couldn’t figure out how to reproduce it, but hey, the fix is the main point, right? 😀 If you’ve ended up on this page, you’ve probably encountered the issue already, so why would you care about the screenshots anyway. Solution Ok, so this is…Continue reading Azure DevOps suddenly 404s for your project? Easy fix!
So, once again, I find myself wasting time trying to fix WordPress. While a powerful platform, it’s an neverending source of grief when trying to maintain a site with a non-trivial number of plugins. Working with a static web site creator would be much more fun, and there’s a good chance the site would stay up far more, but it would take a lot of effort to set up Hugo or Gatsby – but we’ll see. We’ll see. Anyway, this time I had 2 issues…Continue reading How to fix “Cannot read property ‘map’ of undefined (structured-data-blocks)”
This article aims to patch one annoying gap in Microsoft’s documentation: how, exactly, do you update Azure Function App’s application settings using an Azure DevOps build/release pipeline? It sounds easy, and like something that should happen almost automatically – and for Azure Web Apps (or App Services, as they are often called) it IS practically automatic. But for Azure Functions it isn’t. And the docs aren’t perfect. Let me try and fix that. Problem Azure Functions won’t take your appsettings.json file, “mapping” your variable groups…Continue reading How to update application settings of an Azure Functions App in Azure DevOps Pipeline?
This article documents one of the simplest solutions to one of the simplest issues you might ever encounter with Azure DevOps. Still: it’s a pretty annoying one, and the solution – as simple as it is – seems worth documenting for the next time I’m googling this fervently as I’m afraid of losing my unsaved changes again… :) Essentially, your editor view in Azure DevOps times out and you risk losing any changes you’ve done, and it’s all due to clumsy authentication implementation by Microsoft.…Continue reading Azure DevOps throwing “Unexpected token < in JSON at position 4"?
This article will document a super simple solution to an infuriating and stupid issue you might run into in Microsoft Office Word. Or maybe you might not, but I did. Can you tell I’m just sharing my own pains and whatever I needed to google and didn’t find a solution for? Yeah, another one of these. But hey – maybe this’ll be useful to someone else, too! Problem Long story short – copy-pasting this: Becomes this: WHAT – that’s no table. That’s just weirdly spaced…Continue reading How to copy a table in Microsoft Word (Office app)?
This article explains a quick and dirty fix when you get an error somewhat like “UsageConfigurationNotSupportedInSubscription” when you’re deploying an Azure Logic app from a template. The same fix will probably apply to a number of other issues – but don’t hold me accountable for this :) Anyway – on to the topic of the day! Problem Can you tell by some of my recent blog posts that I’ve been deploying a few Logic Apps recently? :) Today, my Azure Logic App deployment from a…Continue reading How to fix a Logic App deployment that failed with error “UsageConfigurationNotSupportedInSubscription”?
This article explains how you can export a Microsoft Power Automate Flow from, well, Microsoft Power Automate, and nicely and easily import it to Azure Logic Apps. I’ll explain the process step-by-step, and also explain solutions to a few hurdles you might run into! But first, let’s take a look at why you might want to consider taking this step in the first place, shall we? Why move to Logic Apps? Ah, a valid question. There are plenty of possible reasons why you might want…Continue reading How to move your Microsoft PowerAutomate Flow to Logic Apps?
This article explains a quick and dirty fix when you get an error somewhat like “ApiNotFound” when you’re deploying an Azure Logic app from a template. This seems to be a very typical hurdle to run into when you’re trying to deploy a PowerAutomate Flow you’ve exported. I guess despite being built on the same platform, Flow developers took some liberties and the migration is not quite as painless as one would hope… :) Anyway – on to the topic of the day! Problem This…Continue reading How to fix a Logic App deployment that failed with error “ApiNotFound”?
This article explains one possible fix to “LinkedAuthorizationFailed” when you’re deploying a Logic App from a Azure Automation template. Maybe it’ll apply to other cases, too – but in my case, it helped me fix a broken template I had exported from Power Automate, and was bringing into Logic Apps. Problem So, another fun issue to solve! The actual error you run into might be something along these lines: The client has permission to perform action ‘Microsoft.Logic/integrationAccounts/join/action’ on scope ‘/subscriptions/[your subscription id here]/resourcegroups/[your app resource…Continue reading How to fix “LinkedAuthorizationFailed” when deploying an Azure Logic App?
Let’s go with a very simple “note-to-self” kind of a blog post today. Plenty of those to go around on this blog, and plenty more coming, I’m sure! This one is another case that should be really obvious, but isn’t, and should just work, but doeswn’t. Namely, when you have run a pipeline in Azure DevOps expecting it to publish a package in your internal NuGet feed so that all of your friends can use it. And Azure DevOps is great for just this, as…Continue reading How to access invisible packages in Azure DevOps artifact feed?
Rogue Azure Active Directories don’t sound like a huge and widespread problem, but Microsoft’s approach of generating unmanaged, viral AAD tenants whenever they encounter the tiniest reason to do so MUST be driven by some weird internal scorecard where “number of tenants” has a lot of weight, because you do get an Azure AD tenant really easily, and getting rid of one is surprisingly laborious. This guide aims to explain what’s the quickest way to remove one. Background Unmanaged directories can be troublesome because they…Continue reading Guide: How to take over and kill a viral AAD tenant?
In this article, I’ll do my best to explain how to list all loaded assemblies in a PowerShell session. See PowerShell is great at caching assemblies in the weirdest possible way, so ending up with all kinds of mismatches in loaded DLL versions is pretty typical. Or just being plainly blocked from loading a new one as you already have a cached reference in. I mean, I’ve ran into all kinds of issues even if I only use PowerShell occasionally. Or maybe that’s the reason.…Continue reading How to list all of the assemblies loaded in a PowerShell session?
So, I tried to paste a table from Excel to WordPress, and I failed. Annoying – but not a big problem. I can just paste it into an existing table and it’ll “sort itself out”, right? Well, no. Exporting the Excel sheet as a html page and copy-pasting the table from there didn’t work either. Actually, copy-pasting a table just didn’t work at all. So… WordPress is unable to understand HTML tables. Is that really it? Well, no, again, it’s not. It just refuses to…Continue reading How to copy-paste a table from Excel to WordPress without using plug-ins?
New Microsoft Lists are here. They are awesome, and a great move by Microsoft to reap even more value of the old war horse. Wait – old war horse? Well, behind the scenes, they’re actually “just” normal SharePoint lists with a bit of added sparkles and gizmos – namely, an app, a few automations to make users’ lives easier, and an application page to display the lists. Great move by Microsoft, launch quite well done, and a pretty good user experience so far. But it’s…Continue reading How to create a new SharePoint list based on a List template (.stp)?
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 a site to another one. What’s the best way to do that now? While PnP templates have supported exporting contents for a while now, you can still run into some issues with them – namely, fields of type “person” (or rather, “user”) are not supported, and I didn’t feel like scripting a…Continue reading How to enable saving a list as template on SharePoint Online?
Sometimes, you need to change the hosting model (or tier) for your resources on Azure. Maybe you’ve outgrown whatever you’ve originally selected, maybe you’ve got too much cash on your hands, or maybe you’re like me, and you get absolutely and completely fed up with the cold starts for your Azure Function apps on Consumption plan. For these situations, you have the possibility of changing the hosting tier – the plan – you’re on. Although, this has been implemented in a disturbingly non-intuitive way! Let’s…Continue reading How to upgrade your Azure Function app plan when you originally selected “Consumption”?
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. So how did you do this now… Turned out to be pretty easy, and borderline obvious! Still, yet another thing to document. Solution So, back to basics – how do you access the Site Collection App Catalog on a SharePoint Online site?…Continue reading How to access the site collection app catalog in SharePoint?
This article explains how to fix an issue when updating a module in PowerShell. The error is something along the lines of: “System.InvalidOperationException: PowerShell Gallery is currently unavailable. Please try again later.” The whole error looks something like the one below, although you can probably get it for many different commandlets. The main point is the latter part of the error: PowerShell Gallery is currently unavailable. This, quite simply, stops you from installing or updating any modules, as you can’t access the PowerShell gallery, that…Continue reading How to fix “System.InvalidOperationException: PowerShell Gallery is currently unavailable.”
I recently started playing around with Microsoft Lists. What a fun and friendly tool – makes SharePoint lists far more approachable offering a great editing experience, easy sharing, and hopefully in just a bit, awesome integrations and great mobile app (I mean, there’s iOS… But who has an iPhone in this day and age? 😉 However, as is usual in my tech endeavors, I immediately ran into an issue. Problem Some background: I’ve selected either EN-US or EN-CA as my locale everywhere on my work…Continue reading How to change Microsoft Lists language?
This article explains how to fix your account, whenever it gets completely FUBAR due to your account being added as a guest in another AAD organization. And this might happen in multiple different situations – my most typical woe is Visual Studio’s Cloud Explorer, which stops showing me my subscriptions due to authentication against the other organizations failing. Add some extra difficulty by having someone in the other directory block your account from signing in, and you can’t even remove the account by any usual…Continue reading How to leave an Azure AD tenant?
