An angry crowd protesting about SharePoint Lists (of all things)

CSOM suddenly throwing exceptions when trying to access list contents in SharePoint? A weird fix.

This article explains one possibly reason why some C# code, powered by CSOM, suddenly stops working and can’t access a SharePoint list anymore that it could before, throwing annoying and misleading exceptions like “The list is not DocumentLibrary, VersionPolicies is not supported” instead. Oh – and of course, there’s a…Continue reading CSOM suddenly throwing exceptions when trying to access list contents in SharePoint? A weird fix.

SharePoint is not broken - it just does't work

How to fix “The website does not support SharePoint Online credentials. The response status code is ‘Unauthorized'”

Whilst running some SharePoint Online PowerShell commandlets, or connecting to a SharePoint Online site from your app, you get the following (or similar) error about your SharePoint Online credentials being unauthorized for something you should definitely be authorized to do: Cannot contact web site ‘https://[tenant]-admin.sharepoint.com/’ or the web site does…Continue reading How to fix “The website does not support SharePoint Online credentials. The response status code is ‘Unauthorized’”

Omnia Intranet by Precio Fishbone

Joining the Omnia team!

Exciting news right after the Easter break (and a bit of a change from the usual flow of technical stuff) – I’ve joined the Omnia team at Precio Fishbone. Over the last 12 months, I have been working mostly on Azure IoT projects and was already debating renaming the blog.…Continue reading Joining the Omnia team!

SharePoint is not broken - it just does't work

App authentication woes on SharePoint (Token request failed. The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.)

This article explains how to get rid of sudden and unexplainable 401 Access Denied errors when trying to authenticate against a fairly fresh Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Online tenant. This issue seems to be caused by a long-ish project to finally retire ACS – Azure Access Control service) on SharePoint…Continue reading App authentication woes on SharePoint (Token request failed. The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.)

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SPFx | Failed to load component.

This post describes the typical reasons why one might encounter the following error, and the ways I’ve found to fix them: “Failed to load component. Original error: ***Failed to load path dependency ContosoSPFxWebPartLocalization from component [guid] (ContosoSPFxWebPart)“. The error typically looks something like this in the screenshot below: Problem This…Continue reading SPFx | Failed to load component.