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Move to WordPress
Following Microsoft’s announcement that they are phasing out the Public SharePoint Online sites I’ve moved my blog to WordPress. https://www.sjlewis.com
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Deleting SharePoint Online Root Site Collection
Today I had a lengthy conversation with Microsoft Support regarding a number of failures we have been experiencing while deleting and recreation the Root Site Collection for a particular SharePoint Online Tenancy. I was using the following PowerShell commandlets to delete a site collection: Remove-SPOSite Remove-SPODeletedSite After running the commands (and checking that the root […]
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SharePoint: Can’t deploy a Sandbox solution (WSP)?
Trouble Shooting SharePoint Online Well I’ve been seeing these problems with one of my tenant and it turns out that Microsoft has rolled out a so called “fix” (apparently started back in October 2014), to prevents Users from run custom scripts… From the description you may have thought that it was to stop contributors adding JavaScript […]
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Virtual Machine: Configuring for daily development use
Every time I create or given a new Development Virtual Machine (VM) I find myself repeating the same steps. Make sure the VM has been added to the Domain Start > right click: Computer > Properties > Change settings In some circumstances you may need to remove and re-add the machine the domain and restart […]
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Virtual Machine: SharePoint failing to create a Web Application
So your Virtual Machine doesn’t quite have enough resources to create a new Web Application using Central Admin, then you have two choices PowerShell or the workaround I’m going to describe today. Before I describe the workaround let me describe why you might be here in the first place. Normally you would open SharePoint 2013 […]
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Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 3
In this post I want to talk about Fixtures and a major pitfall I’ve found when working with Chutzpah Test Adaptor for the Test Explorer.
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Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 2
Last week I wrote about how to configure Jasmine to run within Visual Studio using Chutzpah Test Adaptors. However since then I’ve run into a number of issues for which I will share my thoughts in this post.
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Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 1
This blog does not describe how to perform JavaScript TDD (test-driven development) or BDD (behaviour-driven development). It does however describe how to set-up Visual Studio and configure an App for SharePoint project to get you started.
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Client-side Development Techniques with CQWP(s) and JavaScript…
The other day I was talking to one of my colleague John Holah about retrieving large amounts of data from a SharePoint 2010 Lists using “client-side” v “OOB” techniques for a particular client, who has set use a number of challenges/limitations: Our access is limited to Site Collections We cannot deploy server-side code Internet Explorer […]
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Cool Visual Studio 2013 plugin called Javascript Parser…
Found a cool plugin which improve support for JavaScript within Visual Studio 2013 and therefore help the performance of development process and avoid possible bugs. Excellent! However the best thing I like about “Javascript Parser” plugin is that I can now use the “// TODO: …” Task List Tokens in my JavaScript code just like we […]
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