Reading Time: 10 minutes. 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 – and why not, it’s a pretty useful present, right? However, you might want to think about where you get that subscription from. Don’t get the bootleg option – you might end up regretting it! I’ve stumbled upon a few online retailers, that sell Microsoft Office 365 (Microsoft’s subscription-based Office offering) […]
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!
Solving Microsoft Teams Licensing Error “errorCodeTeamsDisabledForTenantForbidden”
Reading Time: 2 minutes. 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 […]
SharePoint-Teams -integration using a tab
Reading Time: 8 minutes. 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 […]
Fixing the “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document.” issue
Reading Time: 3 minutes. 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. […]
Disabling Delve/MySite redirection from SharePoint Site Collections
Reading Time: 2 minutes. 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 […]