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December 2019 Blog Posts

Adding the Office 365 “stubs” to your VS Code profile

Quite some time ago I posted about the SharePoint “stubs” – a PowerShell module that allows for remote authoring with intellisense within your favourite PowerShell editor (i.e. VS Code!) on a machine that does not have the SharePoint bits installed. This was put together by the SharePointDSC folks ostensibly to help them with unit testing, but it’s much wider use was around being able to create scripts properly and easily on a remote machine. Well, now the OfficeDSC project has done the same thing creating a gargantuan “stub” for the cmdlets available in the following services and frameworks: ...

Azure AD & SharePoint (On-Premises) update following SPS Lisbon and ESPC

Here’s a quick update on the issue that occurred during my recent Azure AD and SharePoint sessions at SharePoint Saturday Lisbon and ESPC. For those interested, once I had configured the AAD Enterprise Application and created a Trusted Identity Provider in SharePoint to use it – and attempted a (seemingly successful) login via AAD the glorious Yellow Page of Death was returned by the SharePoint Web Application. It was, perhaps obviously, a basic error – albeit one that is not *that* obvious, especially when you are brutalised by a head cold and a very dodgy furry podium!...