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  Published on

  2018-11-14 9:11 a.m.

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  koskila

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  PowerShellExchangeOnlineOfficeGroups

  How to fix an Office Group with no Owners

  This post explains how to add new Owners to your Office Groups using PowerShell. If your group has ended up without any owners, PowerShell might even be the only option, since the graphical user interfaces for Office Groups management are not that good. Background The hype around Office Groups kind of died down a little bit a while back, since their role wasn't that clear - they didn't really do much, and were confusing for end users.

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  2018-11-07 10:12 a.m.

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  koskila

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  SharePointSharePointOnline

  Help! My "Content and Structure" page in SharePoint Online is gone!

  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. Which kind of makes sense, since it's quite an old feature - albeit, a very useful one.

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  2018-10-20 5:21 p.m.

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  koskila

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  SessionsSpsSPSNE

  Thanks for coming to my session at SPS New England, 10/20!

  I had the privilege of speaking at SharePoint Saturday New England in Burlington (near Boston) on the 20th of October. Thanks for the super-active crowd! A lot of difficult (e.g. good) questions and great conversations.

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  2018-10-17 7:01 a.m.

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  koskila

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  SessionsSpsSPSNEAnnouncement

  Speaking at SPS New England on 10/20/2018!

  I have another exciting announcement to make - I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday New England on 20. of October in Boston! My session about Microsoft Flow, Azure Functions, and a bit of Cognitive Services was accepted for the developer track. I'll be presenting at 9:00 - 10:15 AM in room Cranmore.

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  Published on

  2018-10-16 12:27 p.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureFunctions

  Ignite 2018 recap: What's new for Azure Functions?

  Ignite 2018 is done and dusted, and it's a good time to quickly recap what's new for Azure Functions in the coming months. They've certainly been getting a lot of love from Microsoft, which is GREAT! New features for Azure Functions There were a bunch of exciting new things announced! Not all of the things in this blog post are necessarily completely new - but instead reached General Availability . Let's go through them one by one...

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  2018-10-10 7:35 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ClassicSharePointSharePointSharePoint2016SharePoint2013

  Problematic behavior of web.AddSupportedUILanguage(int lcid) in SharePoint 2013 and 2016

  Every now and then, an API or a method call comes along, that you need to be very careful with. "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web.AddSupportedUILanguage()" seems to be one of them. In this post, I'll try and document my findings and workarounds for said method! Issues and solutions

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  Published on

  2018-10-02 6:49 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureFunctionsCSharp

  Fixing the "The following functions are in error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." error in Azure Functions

  Let me start this article, by reminding everyone that Azure Functions are awesome, and you should use them despite some hiccups. Having said that, let's fix some errors! At the beginning of September 2018, Microsoft started pushing out breaking changes to Azure Functions 2.x. They had announced this a full month in advance, so they expected everyone in the world to update their Azure Functions to avoid the functions from breaking. I guess, however, that in real life, a month is not that much.

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  Published on

  2018-09-26 12:34 p.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureFunctionsCSharp

  How to get application settings for your Azure Function App using C#?

  This article explains how you can access an Azure Function's Application/Environment settings/variables from your C# code. Different versions of Azure Functions have different ways to access the Azure Function settings, but this page should explain the easiest way to get your application setting values for each Azure Functions version! While this is something I need often, it has been another little thing, that I always forget - so better document it somewhere.

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  Published on

  2018-09-18 8:08 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AnalyticsSharePointSharePointSearchUserAnalytics

  How to interpret SharePoint's view count managed properties (like "ViewsLast1Days")?

  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. Plus they are sometimes pretty nonsensical... And not very well documented! In this post, I'll try to make some sense of how you can use them in programmatic scenarios. Read on... Update 12.3.

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  2018-09-05 8:55 a.m.

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  koskila

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  PowerShell

  Properly checking if an item in a folder is a Directory or not in PowerShell

  I got a great tip from a colleague on how to properly check if an item is a file or a directory. In one case we weren't really ever sure if another script had finished its running and unzipped a certain zip package into a folder, and we had to verify it had, before continuing the execution. Our initial implementation worked most of the time... But not quite always. The purpose of this blog post is to explain how we found a pretty well-working and elegant solution!

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  2018-08-28 9:58 a.m.

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  koskila

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  OOTBSharePointSharePointPerformance

  Disabling requests to WsaUpload.ashx (Customer Experience Improvement Program)

  So, I've gotten this question from a lot of customers and partners, and I thought it would be 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!

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  2018-08-22 8:30 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AlertsClassicSharePointModernSharePointSharePoint

  Subscribe to changes on a SharePoint list

  SharePoint List Alerts . That magnificent functionality in SharePoint gives you a heads-up anytime someone touches your precious documents (so you can go and revert the changes) or changes files in Style Library (so you can go and remove that pink custom CSS they tried to add). Very useful for a lot of scenarios! The functionality is ancient, quite cumbersome, and CERTAINLY not pretty, but it's straightforward and quite reliable.

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  2018-08-09 4:56 p.m.

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  koskila

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  PnPPowerShellPowerShellSharePointSharePointOnline

  The fastest way to verify your Client Id and Client Secret are valid with PowerShell

  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! We can use PowerShell to validate them. This article explains a simple way to validate and debug your client id and client secret using PowerShell. Solution By using PowerShell, it's fairly straightforward to verify, that your Client Id and Client Secret work.

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  2018-08-01 10:19 a.m.

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  koskila

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  PowerShellAzureAD

  How to get the user count for Azure AD Enterprise Application

  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 the organization's members are actually using it, or maybe you just want to know about the user adoption of an app.

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  Published on

  2018-07-31 9:40 a.m.

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  koskila

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  DeploymentSharePointSharePointAddInSharePointOnline

  Solving the "Tenant app deployment is only supported in the app catalog site." error

  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! 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.

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  2018-07-24 11:14 a.m.

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  koskila

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  PermissionsSharePoint

  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

  This is one of the 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.

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  2018-07-18 2:16 p.m.

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  koskila

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  LocalizationSharePoint

  SharePoint Localization - a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!

  This article describes the localization/multilingual capabilities of SharePoint, and your options as an organization using it to achieve a seamless and user-friendly experience for your end-users and content editors. SharePoint's definitely a powerful platform, but its multilingual features might leave a bit to be desired - and using them successfully requires some understanding of the platform!

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  Published on

  2018-07-16 8:18 a.m.

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  koskila

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  PnPPowerShellPowerShellSharePointSharePoint2016WebPartOnPremisesSharePoint2013SharePointOnline

  5 ways to enable Custom Scripts for a SharePoint site collection

  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. Different instructions and solutions apply to SharePoint Online, and on-premises scenarios (SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and probably 2019) - so see below for all of them.

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  Published on

  2018-07-11 8:38 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ADALAzureAzureAD

  Fixing an "AADSTS70005" issue by enabling the implicit authentication flow for your Azure AD app

  This article explains the most typical reasons why you might get an error with an "AADSTS70005" code, and how to fix it. Spoiler alert - it usually just requires enabling Azure AD implicit grant flow for authentication! And let me show you - step by step - how to do that. Reason Another day, another Azure Active Directory error! So what exactly is this AADSTS70005 all about?

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  Published on

  2018-07-09 11:24 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ClassicSharePointSharePoint

  How to show more than 30 categories on Classic SharePoint blog/news sites?

  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 article explains how to fix this in a couple of simple steps!

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  Published on

  2018-07-06 8:50 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureDeploymentDevEnvironment

  Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”

  This post describes how to fix the error, where when publishing Azure Functions or Azure App Services you get an error like this: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.” This is luckily another straightforward fix! Problem Azure Function Publish fails with a message: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.

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  2018-06-26 11:42 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureADv2AzureAD

  How to fix "AADSTS50011: Reply address did not match because of case sensitivity."

  So, you got an AADSTS50011 error code? It's just Azure AD's authentication acting up because of an invalid reply address! Here are a bunch of different reasons that could have led to this error. This post describes the variant where the URL's case sensitivity differs from what's configured. For me, the most typical scenario where I run into this error is accessing the app from SharePoint.

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  Published on

  2018-06-19 7:48 p.m.

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  koskila

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  AzureAzureFunctionsIIS

  How to fix an Azure Function failing with error "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

  This post describes one way to resolve a problem, where you receive an error like "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable." when calling your Azure Functions. Problem Another day, another simple, yet kind of weird issue to solve! I was developing a simple Azure Function to access Microsoft Graph API this time.

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  Published on

  2018-06-11 8:02 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AuthenticationAzureADv2AzureAD

  How to fix "AADSTS50011: The reply address does not match the reply addresses configured" -error

  So, you have an error with the code AADSTS50011 ? That's ok - it's just Azure AD 's authentication acting up because of invalid reply URLs ! Most of the time, it's a simple configuration issue. 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. Read on to find out if one of them can help you! Problem So, you're getting an error somewhat like this: AADSTS50011: The reply address ...

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  Published on

  2018-05-24 9:09 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AuthenticationGoogleChromeMicrosoftMSDN

  How to log in to Microsoft's websites (MSDN forums, Azure Portal, SharePoint Online) when you get a "Bad Request" error?

  Every now and then, something like half of Microsoft's websites will suddenly stop working - this applies to at least Azure Portal , SharePoint Online sites, MSDN forums, Office Online, and probably a thousand other sites. The error is most of the time something like this: Bad Request - Request Too Long HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long. Or like shown below: Azure Portal throwing an error: "Bad Request - Request Too Long HTTP Error 400.

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