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.
While running “New-PnPSite” (or actually any other site creation method in PowerShell or programmatically), the site creation fails, and instead you get back an error like the one below: Ouch! Where does this come from? In the code of New-PnPSite, the actual function call is shown below: (Source) So, the…Continue reading New-PnPSite fails with “SiteStatus” : 3?
This article applies to a lot of different issues you might be having with your SharePoint-powered site or even custom functionality like mobile apps using SharePoint’s search index. I’ll list a few of the situations, which could be caused by these issues, below: Reason for the issue These issues are…Continue reading Issues with User Profile Property visibility in Search-powered functionalities
This post describes the status of an ongoing issue in SharePoint Online, where the Managed Property “PictureThumbnailURL” will return null no matter what you do. This Managed Property is used for a few different use cases – most notably, Delve blog post’s hero or header photo’s URL is mapped to…Continue reading Bug: “PictureThumbnailURL” always null in SharePoint Online Search results
First of all: you’re right and your eyes are serving you well. It has indeed disappeared. Starting in October, it’ll be hidden from end users. Microsoft is retiring the “Site Content and Structure” tool in SharePoint Online. Which kind of makes sense, since it’s quite an old feature – albeit, a…Continue reading Help! My “Content and Structure” page in SharePoint Online is gone!
Every now and then, an API or a method call comes along, that you need to be very careful with. “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web.AddSupportedUILanguage()” seems to be one of them. In this post, I’ll try and document my findings and workarounds for said method! Issues and solutions
Have you ever wondered, how SharePoint’s Managed Properties for Usage & Analytics info actually work? There are all these nice properties available for getting view counts for different items in SharePoint’s search index, but they all seem to act like crazy. Plus they are sometimes pretty nonsensical… And not very…Continue reading How to interpret SharePoint’s view count managed properties (like “ViewsLast1Days”)?
SharePoint List Alerts. That magnificent functionality in SharePoint gives you a heads-up anytime someone touches your precious documents (so you can go and revert the changes) or changes files in Style Library (so you can go and remove that pink custom CSS they tried to add). Very useful for a…Continue reading Subscribe to changes on a SharePoint list
