Last week i had been struggling for hours trying to create a sharepoint online Sitecollection via PNP Powershell. It was a Tenant with German language as Default. Problem I started the follwing script and indicated 1033 as LCID, which should create an english Sitecollection New-PnPSite -Type TeamSite -Lcid 1033(English) -Alias $alias -Owners $owners But, the … Continue reading New-PnpSite ignores language App-Only
SharePoint REST API : List Items CRUD and Namespaces
The SharePoint REST API was Since 2013 introduced and offers Endpoints for almost all needed Operations on all levels(Sitecollection, Sites, Lists, Fields, Permissions, Document, Items...etc.) In this article I am going to describe how to manage List Items(CReateUpdateDelete) using the REST API, AJAX...etc. Endpoints REST Webservices are based on 2 things : URL URLs are … Continue reading SharePoint REST API : List Items CRUD and Namespaces
Azure Active Directory : Bulk Create + License assignment / attribution via Powershell
One of my colleagues told me, how she struggles with creating 10 CRM Accounts everytime she has a new Demo(she does more than 3 a week). Plus manually assigning the licenses. And as a hero i told her that Powershell is always the solution, so i wrote this script that bulk creates and assigns licenses. … Continue reading Azure Active Directory : Bulk Create + License assignment / attribution via Powershell
SharePoint Search crawler : Object was not found sps3
Today i ran into a problem while trying to crawl/index from the User Profile : The start address sps3://.... cannot be crawled The object was not found sps3 is the protocol to crawl User Profile informations on SharePoint. Possible reasons : You are having a multi farm architecture and configured AAM : solution is to … Continue reading SharePoint Search crawler : Object was not found sps3
SharePoint : Connection with Office Web Apps via SSL/HTTPS : new-spwopibinding the server did not respond
Office Web Apps, which is now Office Online Server, allows to display/edit Office documents(Word, Powerpoint, Excel...etc) on a Web Browser, which is advantageous when working with SharePoint, thus Users don't have to switch from a Browser to Office App to see or to edit a document. Today i faced a Problem that made me crazy … Continue reading SharePoint : Connection with Office Web Apps via SSL/HTTPS : new-spwopibinding the server did not respond
SharePoint – AAM : Alternate Access Mapping with HTTPS/SSL
When you install a new SharePoint Farm the default URL will be the name of the server, which is usually not beautiful(http://sp-srv, http://sharepoint...etc). Today we will se how to configure the AAM with HTTPS. Certificate : I will not explain how to get the certificate in this article, you can also use a self signed … Continue reading SharePoint – AAM : Alternate Access Mapping with HTTPS/SSL
SharePoint custom fonts and styles
SharePoint is also considered as a Web CMS. Whether it is a Content Editor Webpart, a Rich HTML Field or a Publishing page the Ribbon offers formatting and design capabilities, which looks like all Office Products. To make the redaction of articles easy and standard(in case of a corporate design) we can add both … Continue reading SharePoint custom fonts and styles
Hyper-V Copy VM : blinking point on boot
Today i needed another dev VM(SharePoint 2013), i wanted to copy my 2016 VM and reinstall SharePoint, without having to install sql and AD again. I copied the vhdx and created a new VM based on it. When i started it a black screen with a blinking point comes Solution : I figured out … Continue reading Hyper-V Copy VM : blinking point on boot
SharePoint foundation 2013 Offline Installation
I was trying today to install SharePoint foundation 2013. The Prerequisites Installer could not download the dependencies, i did not search why and i wanted to perform an offline installation. Solution : Download all the prerequisites. Extract the sharepoint installer : sharepoint.exe /extract:"C:\SharePoint2013\prerequisiteinstallerfiles" Copy the downloaded prerequisites to "C:\SharePoint2013\" Run again the prerequisiteinstaller. Microsoft .NET … Continue reading SharePoint foundation 2013 Offline Installation
SharePoint 2013 Foundation Installation : This product requires Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5
I was trying to install SharePoint 2013 Foundaiton on a Windows Server 2012 R2. Microsoft says that only a SP1 pack is installable on a Windows Server 2012 R2. I run the prerequisites and installed the dependencies offline including .Net Framework 4.5. Problem : When i start the installation i get this error : This … Continue reading SharePoint 2013 Foundation Installation : This product requires Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5
