SharePoint Online causing trouble again

How to solve “You don’t have permission to invite people to this item, but you can still add people and send an invite request to the file owner.” in a SharePoint document library?

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 permissions to anyone. Turns out this…Continue reading How to solve “You don’t have permission to invite people to this item, but you can still add people and send an invite request to the file owner.” in a SharePoint document library?

How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service

This article explains a couple of ways to fix an issue where after deployment, your Azure App Service suddenly starts throwing an error along the lines of “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.at System.Web.Security.Cryptography.HomogenizingCryptoServiceWrapper.HomogenizeErrors”. The error or the StackTrace doesn’t point to anything helpful (understandably, it’ll point to a StartUp.cs…Continue reading How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service

How to fix “The term ‘winget’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.” in Windows?

This article explains how I fixed Terminal / PowerShell being unable to locate my winget when I was trying to install something with it. This was quite unexpected as I knew for sure I had installed winget, and I had also used it before successfully. But alas, things break down…Continue reading How to fix “The term ‘winget’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.” in Windows?

Azure DevOps is a lot of things but it's not insecure

Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it’s for your own security!

This article explains how to get around new security limitations (did I say “limitations”? I meant “features”) in Azure DevOps to make it tolerable to configure your Azure DevOps Deployment Environments. Because the recent changes to Azure DevOps have made it, quite frankly, intolerable. But – let’s take a step…Continue reading Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it’s for your own security!

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How to fix winget when it’s throwing a “0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing”?

This article offers a couple of different ways to fix the “0x8a15000f” error that winget might throw at you in seemingly random situations. It’s a great tool especially for headless scenarios on Windows, but this was an odd one – and required an odd solution. Background Another day, another headache…Continue reading How to fix winget when it’s throwing a “0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing”?