Author Archives: Dan

Excluding external users from search results in SharePoint Online

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Dan

Search in SharePoint Online returns both internal and external users by default. This may  not be desirable. Here’s how to exclude external users from the search results. External users have account names containing #ext# which makes them easy to filter … Continue reading →

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Try this if sound in Windows stops working

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Dan

Several of my computers have had problems with sound suddenly not working. Typically this seems to happens when switching context, such as going from plugged in to battery, but sometimes it seems random. At work we use Skype for Business. … Continue reading →

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Enable Mometum on an Alps Glidepoint Touchpad

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Dan

My old computer has a touchpad from Synaptics with a feature called “Momentum”. (I’ve also seen this called “Inertia” och “Inertial Scrolling”.) It causes the mouse pointer move a little bit before stopping after you’ve released your finger, as if … Continue reading →

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Stopping Software Center from restarting your computer

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Dan

IT-departments may require you to restart your computer to complete updates they have pushed out. This is at best annoying, at worst it can ruin your work if you for example have a long running process in progress. (My personal … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer: ScriptImports is undefined

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Dan

Today I spent way too much time on hunting down a bug that occurred in Internet Explorer 11 running our intranet solution on SharePoint Online / 2016. The problem showed itself by throwing the following error in the console: The … Continue reading →

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Beware this limitation when using SharePoint Image Renditions

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Dan

With image renditions you can specify a pixel size when requesting an image, and SharePoint will deliver the image scaled down to this size for you. This is great, because you don’t have to worry about your users pulling full … Continue reading →

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How to backup and restore tables in Azure storage

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Dan

There is currently no built in solution for backing up tables in Azure Storage, but we can easily do it with the help of a tool called AzCopy which is provided by Microsoft. Below is a PowerShell script I built … Continue reading →

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Extending the JavaScript console with history recording

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Dan

The browser JavaScript console is a web developers best friend. Using console.log()  is essential for debugging your web apps. But there are a few annoyances. Two things that bother me for a while are: Reloading the page clears the console. … Continue reading →

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Solution to Azure AD App not able to use given permissions

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Dan

A client I’m working with had trouble adding permissions to their Azure Active Directory Application (AAD App). We added application permissions to allow the app to read all users’ full profiles, read directory data and read O365 unified groups, but … Continue reading →

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I stopped using Google Analytics. Here’s why.

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Dan

For many years I’ve been using Google Analytics (GA) on rlvision.com, but more and more I started questioning myself why. So a month ago I finally cut the cord. Here are my reasons. The first reason is simply that I … Continue reading →

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