Reading Time: 3 minutes. 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? No worries! We can use PowerShell to validate them easily! Solution By using PowerShell, it’s fairly straightforward to verify, that your Client Id and Client Secret work. See the snippets below for 2 different steps: First we validate, that the values work. If they don’t, let’s run another script to see if the Client Id exists but has expired. Validate […]
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How to get the user count for Azure AD Enterprise Application
Reading Time: 3 minutes. 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 organization’s members are actually using it, or maybe you just want to know about the user adoption of an app. For apps with under 100 […]
How to enable custom scripts for a SharePoint site collection?
Reading Time: 6 minutes. This article explains how to enable custom scripting for any SharePoint site collection. Different instructions and solutions apply to SharePoint Online, and on-premises scenarios (SharePoint Server 2013, 2016 and probably 2019). Different solutions resolve the issue for different target sites: Modern SharePoint Team Sites (attached to Office Groups) SharePoint MySites Personal OneDrive sites Any SharePoint site collection created based on self-service site creation SharePoint Online tenant root site collection Any Classic SharePoint site collection Why enable Custom Scripts? Most typically I run into this when […]
Don’t remove the root web of your classic SharePoint Site Collection!
Reading Time: 5 minutes. A quick heads-up – if you remove the root site (or RootWeb, like it’s called in the code) of your classic SharePoint Site Collection, that’s going to cause you some grey hairs. It might even, in some rare cases, be unrecoverable! Why? Whereas you can always restore a normal site from the site collection recycle bin, the root site you can’t. You actually can’t access the recycle bin after removing the root site, nor can you make magic happen with PowerShell commandlets anymore. The Recycle […]
How to output console or PowerShell transcript to a file in Windows
Reading Time: 3 minutes. Every now and then, you run into a situation, where you’ll need to somehow dump the console output (or transcript) of running a console application. I’m actually going to argue it happens a lot more often than one would think – in my case, any time a customer requires a webjob or a function, that one would normally deploy to Azure, being ran on the servers of the customer. This post describes, how to do that. Problem Something breaks or the app crashes, and the […]