If you want to test Copilot Cowork in a tenant today, it is not enough to only assign a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and tell users to open Copilot and locate the Cowork agent. At the time of writing we need to both …
After updating a project running in Azure Functions with a pipeline in Github we encountered a problem that no functions was loaded. This shows how to troubleshoot and fix this issue. Problem After the solution had been …
Ideally you would work with greenfield projects all the time, and not spend time working on legacy solutions and troubleshoot why things that worked before have stopped working! Over time hopefully some your solutions …
While deploying some changes to an existing solution the release pipeline in Azure DevOps suddenly failed while running a PowerShell script for releasing a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) app. This release pipeline uses the …
Moving to a new computer made me test out a new organization of my development projects. Before I always have placed this on the root of the drive, in example C:\Projects. After doing a lot of work in WSL and Ubuntu …
Sharing your custom SharePoint Framework (SPFx) apps with guest users might cause some problems if you tenant is not set up for this. Everything can work fine for you, but as a guest users error messages like Something …
When you create new team or communication sites in SharePoint, the first user that visits will be presented with a template gallery picker. This can be disabled by follow these steps: …
When you create new team or communication sites in SharePoint, the first user that visits will be presented with a template gallery picker: This is a great feature for simpler solutions or where you utilize the Site …
Background During a intranet migration there was a requirement to move the intranet from the root site to a site collection under "/sites". When moving site collections around in the SharePoint Admin Center a redirect …
After upgrading SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to the latest version, there still might be a chance for getting into trouble even if you have done everything by the books. An by the books I of course refer to using the …
If you have been an early adopter of the Hub Site functionality (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/planning-hub-sites) in SharePoint Online, you might also get stuck in some trouble with Hub Sites not showing …
From time to time it is necessary to set the LCID or language code for creating new resources like sites. Even if more and more resources get multi-language support, it is usually be required to set the default language …
I work a lot with automation of tasks in Microsoft 365 and Azure, and many of them involve connecting to other Microsoft 365 services like SharePoint Online. Years back Azure WebJob was the only viable solution for …
A common requirement in the past with classic SharePoint solutions was to create start pages utilizing the full canvas of the page. In classic SharePoint this could easily be accomplished by adding a few lines of CSS in …
Lately Microsoft released the new and long awaited modern site template for publishing sites in SharePoint Online (Office 365). The site templates is named "Communication Site" and is the second template released …
You are not any longer able to log into SharePoint using PowerShell, SharePoint Designer and other 3. party tools (ex. ShareGate, SharePoint Search Query Tool etc). The error message states something that you are …
I came across a rare scenario when I was going to convert an existing Office 365 group to a Team. In Microsoft Teams ( https://teams.microsoft.com) I was unable to find the "Create a team" button. In my case I was logged …
This examples shows how to create new lists from custom list templates in SharePoint using PowerShell and CSOM. Custom list templates are STP-files uploaded to the List Template Gallery on the site. This should work both …
In document libraries it is possible to enable ratings, both likes and average score (1-5). In this article I will cover how to enable "Likes" on the Pages library in a publishing site. When configuring libraries …
In provisioning solutions it can be a good practice to add a security group from Active Directory as an additional site collection owner. Unfortunately a security group is not accepted as either primary or secondary …
Scheduling is easily enabled through the web interface when configuring the "Pages" library, but when deploying solutions using PowerShell, this must be automated as part of the configuration. Unfortunately, as many …
By default the XsltListViewWebPart does not support export from the web user interface. I often build solutions by configuring the web parts in the browers, exporting and adjusting the defintions and then deploying them …
This is a summary of an issue we have had with publishing pages not being indexed, and then unable to build the search-driven pages we wanted using for example Content Search Web Part. This occured in SharePoint Online …
Running data migrations with SharePoint 2013 often involves using BCS and PowerShell if you don't have and third party tools at hand. This can be a bit tricky to set up, but once you are familiar the the BCS …
As we more and more evolve from working exclusively with SharePoint on-premises with our complex local SharePoint farm rigged with several virtual machines eating up our highly spec'd laptop, the new way of working with …
There is a compatibility range mismatch between the Web server and database "SP2013_Content_InsertDatabaseNameHere", and connections to the data have been blocked to due to this incompatibility. This can happen when a …
With the Yammer Embed API adding comments, likes and follow content is quite easy to achieve. Using this embed API has a great benefit as it is developed and maintained by Yammer, and will require very little effort to …
Problem Error in Central Admin when accessing the Managed Metadata service application: The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not …
In my previous article I provided a list of all the common used web templates in SharePoint 2013. For demo purposes it can be handy to spin up a copy of all these templates and later easy remove them. Using PowerShell we …
On a SharePoint 2013 intranet project I have been working on, we got a report that a web part had started to perform bad after a while of use. The web part presents a personalized list of tools to the end-user, and uses …
I created a list of all the common used web templates in SharePoint 2013 with a screenshot showing how the site looks out-of-the-box primary to have for my own reference, but thought it might be interesting for other to …
For some reason a deleted task was still visible in the aggregated task list for a end-user. The task itself had been deleted from the source site, so when you clicked the task you got an error message telling you it did …
For some reason I have never until now needed to add web parts to a page from the gallery using code. Why would I ever do this? The code runs inside a Feature Receiver, and is executed when creating new sites. The web …
In SharePoint 2013 you can now as a end-user choose to follow sites to both subscribe to their newsfeed, but also to maintain a list of favorites under "Sites" in your MySite. From the administrator point of view, there …
The "Newsfeed" found on MySite, is a web part with the same name, and can easily be added to other sites if you enable a hidden feature. From what I can tell, this work fine, but not perfect. The reason I don't feel this …
During a content database migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, we also had a requirement to move a few sites (SPWeb) to new locations. The plan was to first mount the Content Database on the SharePoint 2013 farm, …
A common part of a migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, is to include the MySite user profile and personal site collections. Both the User Profile and Managed Metadata service applications must be migrated first. …
When migrating SharePoint from 2010 to 2013, it depend of the migration strategy you choose how the end result will appear for your end users. Two different approaches when migrating to SharePoint 2013 can be: Migrate …
As a SharePoint developer, I am quite often required to set up new servers for development and testing. Every time I set up a new server, I do a basic configuration before I start installing the specific software I need …
The workflow service in SharePoint 2013 Preview is no longer a part of the standard SharePoint server installation, and is provided by the Windows Workflow Manager (Azure). The service it self is a huge improvement to …
In my work with development of SharePoint solutions, I heavily rely on virtualized environments on my own laptop computer. Working inside virtualized environments complicates the configuration of your own infrastructure, …
Profile pictures can either be stored in Active Directory or in SharePoint. The main reason for placing the profile pictures in SharePoint is for easier management, self-service and maintaining high quality images. …