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SharePoint 2019

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!...

Adding the SharePoint “stubs” to your VS Code PowerShell profile

[update] if you use OneDrive to store your Documents – the default on a new install of Windows 10 - you must ensure the WindowsPowerShell folder exists and is set to be “always on this device”. Ahh, SharePoint. Ahh, SnapIns. Yeah. 2009 faxed and before the ink faded, told us the old crap is hanging around like a bad hangover. I hate SnapIns more than most, but that’s a story for another day. For the time being we are stuck with them when working with our “built from the cloud up” versions of SharePoint Server. One of...

European Collaboration Summit follow up: Tutorial Scripts and Identity Manager Demos

Many thanks to everyone who attended the European Collaboration Summit in Mainz, Germany, last month. It’s safe to say that the event overall was a runaway success and yes, we have already started planning for the 2019 edition! At the event, I promised to publish some additional resources. These are a little later than I had hoped but with a new job and a variety of “more important” things on a rather large to-do list, the delay was inevitable. At any rate, this post serves as a landing page for these resources....

RPC Server Unavailable when creating a SharePoint Farm… the curse of dodgy legacy NetDOM!

Every so often a real blast from the past comes back to haunt me. Usually it’s some obscure “infrastructure” gubbins – you know, the sort of thing that 80% of so called IT Pros knew in 1999. These days thou. Not so much. With SharePoint in particular there is a whole boat load of legacy. Not that legacy is bad. Lot’s of it is awesome. That’s why the product remains so successful. On the other hand some of it is real, real, real nasty!  :) It always seems to come in waves. Over the last two weeks...