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.
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! The following post describes what kind of issues you…Continue reading Don’t remove the root web of your classic SharePoint Site Collection!
Localization and targeting of content in multilingual SharePoint installations is always an issue. SharePoint offers a multitude of ways to profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are foolproof. This post describes how to fetch only localized results from the SharePoint Search index,…Continue reading Using “DetectedLanguage” to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index
This article describes an interesting feature of the Multilingual User Interface in Classic SharePoint. So, in short, I encountered another, very interesting feature of Classic SharePoint Publishing sites, where multiple display languages were in use. When changing the web part title on a web part on a Classic SharePoint page,…Continue reading How to resolve Webpart title changes not reflecting for some users?
With the usual configuration of Office 365 and Azure, there might be multiple Azure AD (AAD) instances associated with your subscription. When creating registrations to whatever SharePoint-related apps that you might be using, if you create the registration to the wrong Azure AD, it can’t access the data in your…Continue reading How to use the Azure AD associated with your SharePoint Online
Have you ever noticed that your SharePoint site just gets slower and slower? That’s probably because the performance of Structural Navigation is absolutely horrible, especially vs. Managed Navigation. This blog post includes our findings about the issue, and I also include some explanation of the reasons behind the difference and…Continue reading The effect of using Managed Navigation instead of Structural on SharePoint Online
This blog post briefly describes how to solve some of the most typical errors about missing PnP Cmdlets when using Windows Powershell (or SharePoint Online Management Shell). Symptoms When trying to run some PnP-related cmdlet, you get an error similar to the ones below: Connect-PnPOnline : The term ‘Connect-PnPOnline’ is…Continue reading How to solve errors about missing PnP Cmdlets on PowerShell
This post describes a couple of ways to fix the issue “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document”. At least for me, it appeared when trying to access SharePoint Online using Powershell or a console program using OfficeDev.PnP (which in turn uses CSOM). Error When running any piece…Continue reading Fixing the “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document.” issue
If you’re working on SharePoint deployments, and aren’t familiar with the SharePoint Search Query Tool, you’re probably doing something wrong. Or you’ve got a really troublefree tenant and simple requirements.. :) At least for technical issues, it’s the #1 tool for debugging what’s in the index and what isn’t. This…Continue reading Using SharePoint Search Query Tool
