Tag: Office365

Office 365 is Microsoft’s collaboration & office tool cloud offering. Having been available from 2011, the service has established itself as one of the world’s leading cloud services – no matter how you measure it.

These blog posts handle different configuration and customization cases I’ve encountered in regards to Office 365. Huge part of these are actually related to SharePoint Online, too. Which is kind of natural – SharePoint Online sites form a huge (if not the most visible) part of Microsoft’s Office 365 offering!

 

 

Microsoft Teams context in SharePoint Framework client-side code.

How to solve the error “Property ‘microsoftTeams’ does not exist on type ‘WebPartContext’.”

This article explains how to fix an issue where you’re just minding your own business, trying to access the Microsoft Teams context in your SPFx webpart’s WebPartContext via the built-in property microsoftTeams, but you run into an issue. Simple stuff, but it’s still easy to run into this one, so I think it’s worthwhile to document the solution somewhere. Problem Most likely, the line causing you issues looks something like this: this.context.microsoftTeams. Of like shown below in Visual Studio Code: This error will lead to…Continue reading How to solve the error “Property ‘microsoftTeams’ does not exist on type ‘WebPartContext’.”

Microsoft Teams extensibility

How to resolve “Error initializing application. Error: ***Manifest not found for component id [guid].” when adding an SPFx webpart to Teams?

This article describes one way to fix the issue, where uploading and sideloading an SPFx webpart in Microsoft Teams just brickwalls you with a fairly non-descriptive error, and no way to proceed. Luckily, this is usually simple to fix – I’ll describe 2 different solutions I’ve found so far! Problem You’ve got a SPFx webpart, that you’ve packaged as a Teams extension. You can even find it from Teams extensions, but while adding it as a tab, you run into issues. Oh. That’s a bummer.…Continue reading How to resolve “Error initializing application. Error: ***Manifest not found for component id [guid].” when adding an SPFx webpart to Teams?

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The Scary Anatomy of a Microsoft License Fraud

Note: While this was originally posted around the Christmas of 2018, and some company or seller names might not be relevant as scammers come and go, the principles in this blog post seem to be valid since early 2000s to probably until 2038 (when the Internet ends due to the Epochalypse). Tis the season for gifts, and lots of y’all might be thinking about giving out a digital gift. Maybe some of the more practical ones think about gifting someone a subscription of Office 365…Continue reading The Scary Anatomy of a Microsoft License Fraud

Launching Microsoft Teams

Solving Microsoft Teams Licensing Error “errorCodeTeamsDisabledForTenantForbidden”

This post explains how to fix the “errorCodeTeamsDisabledForTenantForbidden” error when trying to add guest users to Microsoft Teams channel. This issue might arise when a user is invited to a channel in your organization’s Microsoft Teams for the first time. Fixing it usually just requires a flip of a switch, but might also include some waiting. Symptoms You get an error screen like this, when trying to join a Teams channel as a guest user. No fear, though – likely an easy fix! Posts Related…Continue reading Solving Microsoft Teams Licensing Error “errorCodeTeamsDisabledForTenantForbidden”

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SharePoint-Teams -integration using a tab

This post describes one possible scenario for SharePoint-Teams -integration, how to achieve that, and what kind of issues there might be. Teams? What’s that? At Blue Meteorite, we at the Valo team have been leveraging Teams since early 2017 as our main communications channel. For us, it complements Yammer, email and Skype for Business quite nicely, although to be fair, it’s not always 100% clear which channel would be optimal for a certain piece of communication… :) The Redmond Magazine calls Teams Microsoft’s response to…Continue reading SharePoint-Teams -integration using a tab

"For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document. To enable DTD processing set the ProhibitDtd property on XmlReaderSettings to false and pass the settings into XmlReader.Create method."

Fixing the “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document.” issue

This post describes a couple of ways to fix the issue “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document”. At least for me, it appeared when trying to access SharePoint Online using Powershell or a console program using OfficeDev.PnP (which in turn uses CSOM). Error When running any piece of code, whether in PowerShell, .exe console or anything else than in the code behind relies on .NET Framework, you get an error like this: For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document.…Continue reading Fixing the “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document.” issue

SharePoint List View With enterprisekeywords searchable

Tweaking the SharePoint list view search box to filter on managed metadata fields

This post contains minor but nifty tweak to search box in SharePoint list views. Applies to 2013, and Office 365 (for now). Pretty basic stuff, but had to figure this out for a customer so can just as well document it here :) Okay – so a customer needed to be able to filter view items in a SharePoint list by values in a ke yword-field (managed metadata, with values added by editor users), and wanted to use the SharePoint’s searchbox. The problem was, out of…Continue reading Tweaking the SharePoint list view search box to filter on managed metadata fields

SharePoint Online site menu

How to log in to SharePoint as a different user?

SharePoint Server versions 2013, 2016 and 2019 don’t have that old and familiar “sign in as a different user” -option in the site menu, and for the time being, nor does SharePoint Online. However, sometimes it’s very useful functionality to have, so it’s a bit weird Microsoft chose to get rid of the option. This post outlines a method that I’ve found to work quite well for making SharePoint ask for credentials, so that you can use another account to then log in! Really nice…Continue reading How to log in to SharePoint as a different user?

IE11 compatibility view emulator

Identifying IE11 compatibility mode in SharePoint

In this post, I describe how you can figure out if IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) has jumped in the compatibility mode. You run into this requirement every now and then, when trying to figure out some SharePoint browser compatibility mess-up. This is quite frequent, because in compatibility mode IE does its best to screw up your CSS. Compatibility view now and before Microsoft has been pretty keen on introducing new ways to handle browser compatibility and make IE behave in even stranger ways that it…Continue reading Identifying IE11 compatibility mode in SharePoint