Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.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 to “Solving Microsoft Teams Licensing Error […]
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!
SharePoint-Teams -integration using a tab
Reading Time: 8 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.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 Slack, and for someone who has […]
Fixing the “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document.” issue
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.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. To enable DTD processing set the […]
Disabling Delve/MySite redirection from SharePoint Site Collections
Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.In this post I instruct a simple way to stop SharePoint (either on-premises installation or SharePoint Online) from redirecting to MySites or Delve. The normal behavior is, that this happens when users click any name of a user anywhere in SharePoint. This is often not desired, and sometimes just confusing or impractical. Problem If your customers are like mine, a lot of them hate Delve or MySite or both. Or maybe they just are’nt willing to yet adopt Delve. Or maybe they just want to simplify the team site experience for […]
RefinableString -managed property in SharePoint Online not populating for all items
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.This post describes a peculiar problem one customer had. In their intranet, all of their employees had a managed metadata -typed managed property in SharePoint User Profile Service and a mapping from that property to RefinableString31. RefinableString31, in turn, was used on Search DisplayTemplates to show the textual value of the managed metadata field. Symptoms The mapping and displaying the values worked beautifully – except for one user. Her people search results profile wouldn’t show her office address no matter how long the customer waited for the content to be reindexed, […]
Tweaking the SharePoint list view search box to filter on managed metadata fields
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.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 the box this field does not […]
How to log in to SharePoint as a different user?
Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post was most recently updated on December 4th, 2018.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 feature (or shortcut) to have, when […]
Identifying IE11 compatibility mode in SharePoint
Reading Time: 4 minutes. This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018.In this post, I describe how you can figure out if IE11 has jumped in the compatibility mode. This is quite important 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 usually does by switching it to compatibility mode. There are a few reasons this could happen. In SharePoint’s case, perhaps the most usual one is that IE identifies the […]