Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post was most recently updated on November 23rd, 2018.We’ve been observing an issue in SharePoint Online’s Search Index, where the Managed Property “PictureThumbnailURL” is always null, no matter what values the crawled properties it’s mapped to might contain. The issue seems to have first appeared a few months ago. The first time we encountered it was maybe around July, 2018. Microsoft probably made some changes in SharePoint Search schema, and the property “PictureThumbnailURL” wouldn’t get values anymore. Pre-existing values were conserved, though. All things considered, this does not seem like an intentional change. Posts Related to “”PictureThumbnailURL” always null […]
Category: Configuration tips
All the undocumented weird configuration values that make stuff tick, even though they generally speaking likely shouldn’t.
Hopefully, there won’t be THAT many articles in this category… But I guess there will. I mean, what can you do?
Weird configuration hacks are there to stay, after all.
How to interpret SharePoint’s view count managed properties (like “ViewsLast1Days”)?
Reading Time: 6 minutes. Have you ever wondered, how SharePoint’s Managed Properties for Usage & Analytics info actually work? There are all these nice properties available for getting view counts for different items in SharePoint’s search index, but they all seem to act like crazy. And they are pretty nonsensical… And not very well documented! In this post I’ll try to make some sense on how you can use them in programmatic scenarios. Read on… Posts Related to “How to interpret SharePoint’s view count managed properties (like “ViewsLast1Days”)?”:SharePoint Localization – a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!Privacy PolicyGetting Connect-MsolService (and other Azure Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets) to […]
Disabling requests to WsaUpload.ashx (Customer Experience Improvement Program)
Reading Time: 7 minutes. This post was most recently updated on September 17th, 2018.So, I’ve gotten this question from a lot of customers and partners, and I thought it’s worth clarifying the case a bit. “I’m seeing a lot of requests these requests to WsaUpload.ashx. What do they matter? They seem to degrade the performance – so what can I do about them?” That’s a great question! Let’s see what it is, why it exists, and what we can do about it! Posts Related to “Disabling requests to WsaUpload.ashx (Customer Experience Improvement Program)”:SharePoint Localization – a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!A cautionary tale of relying on […]
How to get the user count for Azure AD Enterprise Application
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.Have you ever tried to find out the number of users of an enterprise application in your Office 365 tenant? This could be needed for multiple different reasons: maybe your organization is paying for the app and you want to know who’s actually using it, maybe the usage is required by a company policy and it’s useful to know if organization’s members are actually using it, or maybe you just want to know about the user adoption of an app. For apps with under 100 users it’s easy – just open […]
Solving “Tenant app deployment is only supported in the app catalog site.” -error
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on September 3rd, 2018.Got an error “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! Problem Imagine this: you browse into your fresh SharePoint tenant, open the app catalog, click on an app, try to deploy it, and out comes this error. Tenant app deployment is only supported in the app catalog site. The current site is not the app catalog site. Yes, while trying […]
Solving “Sorry, your files couldn’t be uploaded. The upload might be too large or the server might be experiencing high network traffic.” in SharePoint
Reading Time: 4 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 7th, 2018.This is one of the kind of weird issues that you don’t really run into in your own development environments, but that you more often run into when you actually have non-godlike permissions. Oh, the woes of trying to use SharePoint with anything less than farm/global administrator… 🙂 Anyway, in this post, I’ll describe a couple of solutions to an error: “Sorry, your files couldn’t be uploaded. The upload might be too large or the server might be experiencing high network traffic” You might encounter this issue, when uploading pretty much […]
SharePoint Localization – a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!
Reading Time: 14 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 6th, 2018.Localization – or showing users with different language preferences content in their preferred language – is not SharePoint’s strongest suite. It never was, and probably will never be, unless Microsoft perfects Machine Translation at some point. And even then it would probably require extra subscription, as Cognitive Services APIs are not available (above the peasant-tier) for free now either. In this article I’ll go through a few survival strategies for multilingual organizations – and I’ll try to expand the content as more options pop up! Please note, that this article revolves […]
How to enable custom scripts for a SharePoint site collection?
Reading Time: 6 minutes. This post was most recently updated on December 4th, 2018.This article explains how to enable custom scripts for any SharePoint site collection. Different instructions and solutions apply to SharePoint Online, and on-premises scenarios (SharePoint 2013, 2016 and probably 2019). Different solutions resolve the issue for different target sites: Modern SharePoint Team Sites (attached to Office Groups) SharePoint MySites Personal OneDrive sites Any SharePoint site collection created based on self-service site creation SharePoint Online tenant root site collection Any Classic SharePoint site collection Errors and causes Most typically I run into this when trying to insert a script web part with […]
Fixing issue “AADSTS70005” by enabling the implicit authentication flow for your Azure AD app
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on December 3rd, 2018.Another day, another Azure Active Directory error! So what’s this AADSTS70005 all about? While either developing or just trying to use an application that authenticates against Azure AD, you might get an error message that contains error code “AADSTS70005“. This means that you’re trying to use implicit authentication flow, but it isn’t allowed for your app. If you have access to the Azure AD you’re authentication against, it’s easy to fix! See more below… Reason You might get an error, somewhat like this: AADSTS70005: response_type ‘token’ is not supported for the application […]
How to show more than 30 categories in SharePoint blog/news sites?
Reading Time: 4 minutes. Imagine this: you’re using a good old SharePoint blog site, and have a bunch of categories in use. That’s nice and easy – SharePoint offers the categorization functionality natively, and it works decently. Problems arise when you have a lot of categories, though – not all of them will be shown. Even if you tweak the web part to show more items on a page, this isn’t reflected on the whole blog site! This post article explains how to fix this. Problem For background info – the category listing is actually an XSLT list view web part. It’s not obvious […]
How to fix AADSTS50011: Reply address did not match because of case sensitivity.
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 5th, 2018.So, you got an error with a code AADSTS50011? It’s just Azure AD’s authentication acting up because of invalid reply address! here’s a bunch of different reasons that lead to this error. This post describes the variant where the URL’s case sensitivity differns from what’s configured. For me, the most typical scenario where I run into this error is accessing the app from SharePoint. Problem So, you’re getting an error somewhat like this: AADSTS50011: The reply address <…> does not match the reply addresses configured for the application: ‘<guid>’. More details: […]
How to fix AADSTS50011: The reply address does not match the reply addresses configured… error
Reading Time: 5 minutes. This post was most recently updated on November 23rd, 2018.So, you got an error with a code AADSTS50011? That’s ok – it’s just Azure AD’s authentication acting up because of invalid reply URLs! Since there might be a couple of different reasons for this error, this post also describes a couple of different solutions, that might help you overcome the issues. Error So, you’re getting an error somewhat like this: But why? Did you mess something up? Well, if you’re the person who configured the app you’re trying to use, you probably did! Although Microsoft might still be the one […]
Solving Azure Web Application’s first load perfomance issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.Is your Azure Web Application suffering from absolutely horrible load times every time someone accesses it for the first time every 15 minutes or so? Mine was. It was pitiful. I was developing a web-based service using EF6 and ASP.NET MVC 5, where all the assets were hosted in the Azure. Even though the app was reasonably lightweight and usually responded very fast, the first time someone accessed it in a while it took 20-60 seconds to load AND sometimes even timed out (especially with mobile clients). Load testing revealed only […]
Don’t remove the root web of your classic SharePoint Site Collection!
Reading Time: 5 minutes. This post was most recently updated on November 25th, 2018.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! Why? Whereas you can always restore a normal site from the site collection recycle bin, the root site you can’t. You actually can’t access the recycle bin after removing the root site, nor can you make magic happen with PowerShell commandlets anymore. The Recycle Bin would be located at a […]
How to fix “- – the web site does not support SharePoint Online credentials. The response status code is ‘Unauthorized'” error
Reading Time: 5 minutes. This post was most recently updated on July 11th, 2018.While running some SharePoint Online -PowerShell commandlets, or connecting to a SharePoint Online site from your app, you get a following (or similar) error about your SharePoint Online credentials being unauthorized for something you should definitely be authorized to do: Cannot contact web site ‘https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com/’ or the web site does not support SharePoint Online credentials. The response status code is ‘Unauthorized’. And that’s not all – by digging into the full error message, you find the underlying internal error: MSDAVEXT_Error=917656; Access+denied.+Before+opening+files+in+this+location%2c+you+must+first+browse+to+the+web+site+and+select+the+option+to+login+automatically. What awakens my curiosity, is this line: Access denied. Before […]
How to solve “Unified Groups aren’t supported.” -error
Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post was most recently updated on February 12th, 2018.When trying to use some functionality, that relies on Unified Groups, you’re getting errors in the console, similar to this: “Unified Groups aren’t supported.” In truth, this most likely means, that Unified Groups (that’s the internal/technical name for Office 365 Groups) is not enabled for this particular user. That breaks a bunch of different features for them, since the Graph API for Groups of course won’t work. This post describes one way to fix this issue! How to solve this? Posts Related to “How to solve “Unified Groups aren’t supported.” -error”:Getting Connect-MsolService (and other […]
Using “DetectedLanguage” to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index
Reading Time: 5 minutes. Localization and targeting of content in multilingual SharePoint installations is always an issue. SharePoint offers a multitude of ways profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are fool proof. This post describes how to fetch only localized results from SharePoint Search index, which solves at least some of the issues. Description SharePoint Search index can be used in quite a few different ways. Probably the most typical way is by searching on SharePoint, or using webparts like Content Search or Content Results. However, one can also build custom functionality, custom client-side liftups, webjobs, […]
How to form links to Planner tasks
Reading Time: 3 minutes. Office 365 Planner is a neat tool for task management. However, when you, for whatever use case, need to form urls that point you towards a single task (or a bucket, or a plan for that matter), you might run into trouble with how the url is formed. Custom domains actually make it a bit complicated, but luckily there’s a workaround! Description of the issue If you have multiple domains in your Azure AD, your Planner might end up using your custom domain in its urls. However, if you need to develop some multi-tenant code, that works with any tenant […]
Web part title changes not reflected to some users in multilingual SharePoint environment
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on May 19th, 2018.I encountered another, interesting issue – this time in a SharePoint environment, where multiple display languages were in use. When changing the web part title on a web part on a classic SharePoint page, it seems like SharePoint saves the changes for you. In reality, only some users see the changes. So, in short: Some other users, on some devices, see the old title, whereas some see the new one. It’s a confusing situation and difficult to debug. Why do web part titles get changed seemingly randomly? Imagine this: You have […]
4 ways to fix error AADSTS65001 (The user or administrator has not consented to use the application)
Reading Time: 6 minutes. This post was most recently updated on November 18th, 2018.Fixing issues with Azure AD authentication for Enterprise applications can be tricky. This article contains multiple different fixes to an issue, where granting admin consent has somehow failed. Not all of the different solutions will work for all situations, though! That’s why I included a couple of different options to try. Changes are, one of them works for you! 🙂 What’s the reason for issues with Admin Consent (like AADSTS65001)? Imagine this: You’re trying to add or use an app, but the requires such permissions from your tenant, that only an […]