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Bypass PowerApps End User Consent
When List forms in SharePoint Online are customized with PowerApps, your end users may start to experience a minor inconvenience. This inconvenience is simply bypassed by applying a consent policy to that specific PowerApps app you are working on. See below for details. 1. Download and Install the PowerApps PowerShell modules (see reference below)2. Find…
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Event ID: 8085 – Business Data Connectivity Service Application is not accessible
Hey all, it has been a while since I last blogged about something. I’ve been pretty busy lately. Most of us, SharePoint guys and gals, are I think. Fun stuff though. I visited my family in Lebanon this summer. It has been since 2004 last time I saw them. It was good. I really enjoyed…
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Prevent your Contributors from adding Scriptable Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
We all heard of the Content Editor Web Part and how SharePoint users can take advantage of it. You’ll find blog entries here and there talking about the God-given powers of the editor web part and how in few lines of JavaScript code, or may I say JQuery code, you may do this and do…
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SharePoint can TXT while it drives – Configure SMS Text Messaging for SharePoint 2010
While for us, in some States, to TXT when driving is to break the law, SharePoint 2010 can do it while it drives and behind the scenes legally. See, in addition to sending Alerts via Outbound Email Servers using the SMTP protocol, SharePoint 2010 can send you TXT messages using Short Message Service or SMS.…
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Content Deployment in SharePoint 2010 – A Brief Report
Content deployment in SharePoint 2010 has improved a bit. Some of the new improvements include the following two items A. SQL Server Database Snapshots (only available in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise) – This is a cool feature. It allows us to take a snapshot of the source content database before the export operation happens. This…
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Installing Language Packs on Windows 7 for SharePoint Server 2010 RC
A quick note on language packs for SharePoint Server 2010 RC. Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 RC are installed the same way you would install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. See “Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server” article on MSDN. Step 1- Extract the language pack using the *.exe /extract: switch Step…
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Fixing Error 1500 Another Installation is in process
A quick note here on options to fix MSI Installer error 1500. The other day, I spent a good chunk of my morning digging into this. I was really surprised as to why this is happening. My machine is brand new Windows 7 and everything else on it is, well, except for few 2010 programs…
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Personal Sites or My Sites Customization Options in SharePoint (Part 1 of n)
We all know that the question of how and what should be customized in regards to My Sites in SharePoint often comes up in the branding and customization conversation. I recently had one of those and thought would share my thoughts with you and expand on the subject a bit. I am thinking a couple…
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General Approach to Portals and Collaboration Utilizing SharePoint
Today, I would like to share with you a couple of thoughts on the subject of how to approach a Portals and Collaboration project in relationship to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). Over the years, many approaches have been developed on how to deploy solutions based on SharePoint Technologies. Aside from the normal…
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Browser Support in SharePoint 2007 (v3)
The other day, we were looking at some of those ActiveX DLLs that SharePoint uses in order to offer us a better, more richer experience when working with and/or browsing its sites and pages. I remembered looking at some browser compatibility articles on TechNet a while back while working on another WCM project. So I…
Johnny Harbieh 