MigrationPermanentException error when migrating Google Mail (Gmail) to...
This error (MigrationPermanentException: We had trouble signing in to this account. Please confirm that you’re using the correct user name and password.) can give you a real headache because the guide...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editing Web Part properties with PowerShell CSOM in SharePoint
This PowerShell script can help when you need to change a Web Part property in SharePoint for multiple sites. We have used my script to create around 300 sites using a custom template. Certain sites...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hide / Disable Export to Spreadsheet
I got a question from a colleague where the customer has added an out of the box survey in SharePoint and granted the required users permissions to respond. The scenario has been recreated on my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SharePoint Online site provisioning using Microsoft Flow, Azure Functions and...
A while back I created a provider hosted app using CSOM in C# for creating project sites but this required the users to have sufficient permissions to create a site. Using Microsoft Flow, Azure...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Create SharePoint service accounts with PowerShell
There are a few of these scripts around to create SharePoint service accounts with PowerShell but I decided to create a new one as SharePoint 2019 is coming with a bit more functionality and error...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Generate a new secure password with PowerShell
The PowerShell Gallery is a perfect solution to store your own scripts which you use on a regular basis where other people can use them to. In this case I added my script to generate a new secure...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Collect Office 365, Exchange Online and SharePoint Online data with PowerShell
I’ve created a tool to collect data from Office 365 last year. I decided to create a new one which should be easier to use, easier to expand including the installation of the different required...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Settings or services required to complete this request are not currently...
I received the error “Settings or services required to complete this request are not currently available. Try this operation again later. If the problem persists, contact your administrator.” when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using on-premises data gateway with SharePoint 2019 and Microsoft Flow
I wanted to create a working environment with the on-premises data gateway in combination with SharePoint 2019. The scenario I configured is a simple one as it only sends a mail when a new item has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grant user account Farm Administrator permissions with PowerShell
We had an “unexpected” issue at a customer which I troubleshooted. I was unable to connect to the Central Administration and I tried to add my account to the Farm Administrators group using PowerShell...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sorry, something went wrong while browsing to the Central Administration:...
We encountered the “Sorry, something went wrong” while browsing to the Central Administration of a SharePoint 2013 environment. We analyzed the logs using the ULSViewer and found the following errors...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exclude users from SharePoint search results using crawl rules
We are using the default AD import for an environment to crawl user profiles. The customer requested the ability to exclude some users from the search results. This can be done by changing the search...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sorry, you don’t have access to this page creating documents in SharePoint
We encountered the issue where people were receiving access denied errors when uploading documents while having contribute permissions for a specific document library. Create a document worked most of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The OOTB approval workflow could not update the item in SharePoint
We encountered the issue where the OOTB approval workflow stopped with the error message “The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or more columns for the item require a different...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DestinationType is a duplicate attribute name while editing Nintex Workflow
We encountered an issue where some Nintex Workflow actions weren’t editable anymore. The error was saying “Sorry, something went wrong” while opening for example the “Create item” action and the ULS...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Configure SharePoint managed metadata columns using PowerShell CSOM
I received the request from a colleague to create a script that will configure all managed metadata columns in SharePoint Online to allow people to fill in values. My colleague first tried this using...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Download and synchronize documents from SharePoint using CSOM
I have created a script in 2015 to download all documents from a site collection to a file share or local drive (blogpost) but we now received the request to download and synchronize documents from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Get SharePoint Online Lists with more than 5000 items
I’ve created 100 posts in the last few years and this will be me 101st. I’m currently planning on writing a series of posts on retrieving different kinds of information about your SharePoint Online...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another way to get the correlation ID information on-premises
SharePoint shows a nice error that something went wrong and provides the end user with a correlation ID. Users will then create a ticket or call you asking to verify what went wrong and you may ask for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Get SharePoint on-premises workflow ‘last modified by’ using PowerShell
Each workflow has an author which is the person who last modified the workflow. Some third party products like Nintex allow you to configure the workflow to run as the workflow owner. The workflow...
View Article
