Solving SharePoint Issues - Eric Schrader
Microsoft Azure Cloud Architect/Developer. Tips for SharePoint, AWS, PowerShell, SPFX, TypeScript, jQuery, XSLT, HTML and Security
Day to day issues and support for Administrators of SharePoint
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
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
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 ran into an issue where I could not Remote Desktop to my Azure VM and was getting this error: Remote Desktop Connection An authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported Remote computer: 13.64.xx.xxx This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation. For more information, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=866660 The issue was a … Read more
I ran into an issue where I could not Remote Desktop to my Azure VM and was getting this error: Remote Desktop Connection An authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported Remote computer: 13.64.xx.xxx This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation. For more information, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=866660 The issue was a … Read more
I recently ran into an issue trying to delete a list over 5,000 items from SharePoint. I tried using Metalogix Content Matrix to delete the list/site, but they all were bound by the threshold. I realized I had to use PowerShell, but research lead to even this having issues deleting the list. The solution was … Read more
I had a good call with GoDaddy today to explain the process of what happens to a domain when it is deleted. I was interested in purchasing a domain that I know was deleted today. Of course, the easiest way is to have the account holder un-delete the domain and transfer it, but in this … Read more
I had an issue where when I tried to share my SharePoint Online Communication Site with an external user, I received an error: Your organization’s policies don’t allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it. But when I went to my O365 tenant, … Read more
Problem After about a week of troubleshooting the classic SharePoint Online blog subsite template (BLOG#0), I was FINALLY able to figure out why I could not edit the homepage. Solution: There is a site feature called “Site Pages” that needs to be activated. Once activated, you can edit the blog homepage (assuming you have permissions). … Read more
UPDATE 9/27/2019- Microsoft this month is releasing a way to “Swap” sites. So create a new modern site collection, then swap it with the root. Invoke-SPOSiteSwap https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/invoke-spositeswap?view=sharepoint-ps#description If the target is the root site at https://tenant-name.sharepoint.com, then the following preparation activities should be performed prior to performing the swap: Any Featured links defined in SharePoint Start … Read more