Enable external site content using client side object model on SharePoint sites in tenant.

12th of September, 2019 / / No Comments

Background

Adding content to SharePoint’s Online Modern sites is easily done using SharePoint’s built in “Embed” web part. The Webpart does have a few limitations though. Firstly, the default behaviour for displaying external content is only limited to sites that have been added to the “Secure Sites” list. And, although site administrators are able to control what external content is allowed on the site, all new external domains must be explicitly added by administrators to the Secure Sites List each time.… [Keep reading] “Enable external site content using client side object model on SharePoint sites in tenant.”

SharePoint site template error : IsProduction field is not valid or does not exists

9th of July, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction

In this post I will be talking about exception “IsProduction field not accessible or does not exist”. In our case we had saved an existing site as site template in solution gallery and created a new site collection from saved site template but it was breaking with the below exception message.

Error message:

“The field specified with the name IsProduction is not accessible or does not exist”.



Background

The idea of using Site templates feature in SharePoint OnPrem helps with saving site as template and reusing the site template to pre provision the standard site elements in new site collection such as list, libraries, views, workflows, logos, branding and other elements for different department.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint site template error : IsProduction field is not valid or does not exists”

Web Application ADFS integration error: Invalid Cryptographic Algorithm

9th of July, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction

In this post I will be talking about invalid cryptographic algorithm exception in web application. We have a multi-tenant single sign on asp.net application which connected with different identity provider to enable single sign on experience.

Background

Single sign-on multi-application scenario has been a soughed feature lately to make the user experience seamless across applications. In this case web application (service provider) was integrating with the ADFS 2.0 client hosted on Windows server 2012 R2 to implement single sign on experience for the end user on their network.… [Keep reading] “Web Application ADFS integration error: Invalid Cryptographic Algorithm”

Handle Throttling in SharePoint Online

3rd of May, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction

In this post I will be talking about handling throttling in SharePoint online custom code. I had recently faced throttling issue in custom CSOM code running from a console application which was working fine with the exponential delay pattern suggestion by community to handle throttling but lately started facing some issues.


Background

For one of our client we had console application to migrate documents from network file-share to SharePoint and update the corresponding managed metadata using the client side object model.… [Keep reading] “Handle Throttling in SharePoint Online”

Automate deployment pipeline tasks using Gulpjs APIs

1st of February, 2018 / / No Comments


Introduction

In this post I will be talking about gulpjs api and how gulp can be useful in automating deployment tasks. In a greenfield project there are a lot of post development tasks that a developer has to focus on besides development and with CI/CD being in focus now, post-deployment tasks are expected to be automated to make deployment pipeline more consistent and repeatable. These repetitive and common tasks not only adds-on to the project time and effort for the developer but also takes the focus away from the primary task.… [Keep reading] “Automate deployment pipeline tasks using Gulpjs APIs”

SharePoint Online forecast storage requirements

10th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Background

Office 365 users get quite a bit of storage on SharePoint Online for content, be it files, metadata, etc. But still to manage the storage and forecast as to when additional storage has to be added becomes a challenge with very limited analytics available in SharePoint Online. Since adding more storage cost money so adding before you actually require or a bit too late would not be ideal.
SharePoint Online provides two ways to track the storage one from the admin center and other one from within the site collection using Storage metrics.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Online forecast storage requirements”

SharePoint Online external user access error "User Not in directory"

10th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Background

Organization wants to share their SharePoint online site collection, documents and collaborate with external partners, vendors or customers. By default site collection are shared to internal user’s only. But this can be extended to authenticated external users or also with limited sharing to anonymous users. External users do not have a license to office 365 subscription, they are limited to basic collaboration tasks.
I had recently enabled external access for site collection on the SPO tenant only to selected domains and authenticated external users.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Online external user access error "User Not in directory"”