SharePoint -tag has all of my posts concerning all the different versions of Microsoft SharePoint under it! Yes, that’s a lot of posts. That’s a lot of SharePoint Problems, after all.
But hey – what can you do? SharePoint really is quite the multi-headed beast, so no matter how many problems you solve and which services you tame, there’s always new ones coming up. Endless amount of work to be done.
I guess that’s part of its enhancment, though :)
I’m posting new content on a roughly monthly basis under this category. I’ve split the posts under more refined sub-categories, too. You can check them out below:
So, in short, you can find an ever-growing number of debugging and gotcha -articles, related to Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office Servers, SharePoint Online (or, like it’s often known, SharePoint 365), SharePoint 2010 and later incarnations under this category.
This article explains how to add multiple aliases to one managed property in SharePoint Search Schema Management. Yes, it’s possible, just a bit unintuitive! I’ll explain the process below. Solution This seems to be another “gotcha”, that’s missing from the official documentation, but is super helpful to know when you…Continue reading How to add multiple aliases to a Managed Property in SharePoint Search?
This article describes one way how to fix seemingly non-sensical “Access denied” errors, that you get when running Set-PnPAvailablePageLayouts. Problem While running the PnP cmdlet for enabling or selecting the available publishing page layouts for a web, you run into this, fairly generic error: Access denied. You do not have…Continue reading How to fix “Access denied” errors when running “Set-PnPAvailablePageLayouts”?
I’ve been posting about different localization/globalization / multilingual options of SharePoint for quite some time. It’s a topic that’s kind of close to my heart, being a non-English speaker with a really difficult native language – one, that Microsoft always gets wrong even though it’s not for the lack of…Continue reading SharePoint linguistic search features
This post is about two of my favorite tools: Chrome SP Editor, and SharePoint Search Query tool. Or maybe better yet, an amalgamation of the two! Description I’ve mentioned the Chrome SP Editor before, and for a good reason. It’s a great tool for any IT Pro or Dev working…Continue reading SharePoint Search Console – Now available inside Chrome SP Editor!
Microsoft is gathering all kinds of telemetric data out of the usage of SharePoint. I ran into an interesting JavaScript file, fp.js, on SharePoint Online doing just that and gathering data. It loads on pretty much every single page request, so it’s something you’ll bump into any time you open…Continue reading What is “fp.js” – and why is it snooping on your SharePoint usage?
There are a thousand possible things that can throw a “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException”, but fewer things, that are ambiguous enough to be called “Unknown error”. This post describes one fairly usual fix for this issue! But let’s get back to the beginning for a second – you get what and when now?…Continue reading Solving yet another “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException: Unknown Error”
This was a peculiar case! An issue I hadn’t run into before, and luckily a disturbingly simple fix. But first, let’s set up the scene: We were running a long-ish PowerShell script using a Global Administrator account. One part of the script was supposed to add and deploy a couple…Continue reading How to fix Add-PnPApp failing with an Access Denied error
