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…
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…
Recently, I noticed that my OneDrive for Business wasn’t logging in. Every time I checked it by clicking on the little blue cloud in the System Tray, I saw this: No matter how long I let things sit, OneDrive wasn’t logging in. Frankly, I was surprised: OneDrive has been rock solid for a good, long…
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…
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…
A few weeks ago, I started having problems logging into Microsoft Teams in my browser and in a Progressive Web App tethered to the same profile. The profile was my main one with my Sympraxis account, so I knew it wasn’t an actual access issue. It had to be something more insidious. If you aren’t…
I am a huge fan of the Modern Search Web Parts. They are a perfect bridge from classic search to where we all hope Microsoft Search is heading. The team working on these Web Parts is a first class bunch, and they are doing fantastic work. Franck Cornu – @FranckCornu Tarald Gåsbakk – @taraldgasbakk Yannick Reekmans – @yannickreekmans…
Site Designs (See the Site design JSON schema article for all the great things we should be able to do with them) continue to seem like an awesome way to roll out a sound information architecture, yet they are still buggy and lack some basic reliability. I wish Microsoft would pay more attention to this…
Clients often ask us how they can monitor the health of the Microsoft 365 (née Office 365) service. The first place you should check is in the Service Health dashboard in your tenant. You need to be a Global Admin to see this dashboard, so hopefully your admins are communicative and let the general population…
I should tag a lot of my posts with “I’m an idiot, so you don’t need to be one, too”. We’ve been having printing problems at Sympraxis Global Headquarters (aka “My House”) on and off for most of this year. Our devices have beenn seeing the printer as offline, even when it wasn’t. I’d racked…