Solving the `npm ERR! code UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY` Issue

If you do consulting like we Sympraxians do, sooner or later you will end up working on a client laptop. There are a number of issues you might run into with this, including different ergonomics, software you don’t need or want, etc., but that’s not the point of this post. Or you may be trying…

New CodeTour Option for SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Upgrades in the Office 365 CLI

I tried out the relatively new CodeTour option in the Office 365 CLI today to upgrade a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Web Part solution. I originally built the Web Part to work in SharePoint 2019, so the underlying SPFx version was 1.4.1. I wanted to get it “up to rev” to 1.10.0 to put a cleaned…

Microsoft 365 Community Docs: Call for Content

Hey, conferences have Calls for Content. Why shouldn’t the Microsoft 365 Community Docs have a CfC? In case you haven’t heard about it, the Microsoft 365 Community Docs is a community-driven effort under the Microsoft PnP auspices. We’ve created a publishing platform for all the great community members out there. FYI: I wrote about the…

An Inconvenient PowerShell Error: “format-default : The collection has not been initialized”

For many months now, I’ve been getting our favorite kind of error – a sporadic one – when I am running PnP PowerShell which loops through the same code many times. The errors look something like this: format-default : The collection has not been initialized. It has not been requested or the request has not…