Solving SharePoint Issues - Eric Schrader
Microsoft Azure Cloud Architect/Developer. Tips for SharePoint, AWS, PowerShell, SPFX, TypeScript, jQuery, XSLT, HTML and Security
Eric During the 2021 MS Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the ability to rename your default SharePoint Online Office 365 tenant URL. There are quite a few limitations (such as you have to delete the desired name if you have it in another tenant and wait 3 days, sizing limitations, you can only rename a site once … Read more
To sign your Xamarin Android app using Visual Studio, you can use the keystore setings in the project properties. This will generate a jks file for Windows. See Compile steps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/release-prep/?tabs=windows#compile Then continue to these steps to export the JKS file: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/signing/?tabs=windows Once you export the app, you can copy the file: C:\Users\EricSchrader\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Mono for Android\Keystore\DevOps … Read more
There are quite a few steps to run apps on the App Center while configuring Test Runs in Xamarin. First, install the following: Android SDK https://developer.android.com/studio Visual Studio 2019 with the Xamarin addon in the Visual Studio Installer: Java SDK http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Once everything was installed, I restarted my command prompt, opened my Xamarin Android app … Read more
Using PowerShell, you can quickly create a test file on your computer. I use these for testing SharePoint attachment upload sizes. You can generate files in mb, gb, etc. easily. This example generates a 5gb test file in C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Temp called testfile.txt $path = “$env:temp\testfile.txt” $file = [io.file]::Create($path) $file.SetLength(5gb) $file.Close() Get-Item $path Example of the above … Read more
During the 2020 safer at home order, a lot of people have been purchasing web cams and recording hardware, leaving many suppliers out of stock or back ordered until July 2020. I have been tracking availability and noticed Best Buy has been getting shipments in recently, and back-ordered products ship in a week. After researching … Read more
We recently ran into an issue when creating SPFX Azure Active Directory App registrations using an O-Auth Implicit flow that our SharePoint Admin Center API Access page then gave an error: Could not retrieve Global Service Principal ID Error: Error: {} And when using O365 CLI, I was getting the same error trying to add … Read more
Our team has been working on converting legacy SharePoint applications written in server side code to client side code on a newer version of SharePoint. The old environment lifted the List View Threshold to a non-default range, which the new environment did not have/support. Our goal was to have these applications respect the list view … Read more
This week at #MSIgnite, there has been a lot of talk about Home Sites. This was released a few months back as a PowerShell command to transform any modern communication site collection into the O365 SharePoint Online landing page for your organization. More can be read here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-home-sites-a-landing-for-your-organization-on-the/ba-p/621933 SharePoint home sites are the landing sites … Read more
I recently upgraded to a larger 15″ screen laptop with a HD display (3840×2160). The issue was Remote Desktop Connection Manager. I tried changing the Scaling size to 200% in each session, but then the fonts would be cut off, “scaling change the size of all items” by clicking “Let me choose one scaling level … Read more
Our VoIP solution here at the office was previously Ooma. They are great, and rarely did we have issues with their service. However, we wanted to consolidate our VoIP phonelines with Skype for Business/Microsoft Teams. So here is the process of how we ported the numbers. I believe this article is unique because I do … Read more