Author Archives: Dan

How to create searchable user profile properties in SharePoint Online

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dan

In this post I will go through the steps of creating a custom user profile attribute that is searchable and shows on the user profile in Delve. It’s not very hard but involves quite a few steps to keep track … Continue reading →

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Popup opens as new browser window in Edge and Internet Explorer

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Dan

Problem: Opening a popup with JavaScript in Edge or Internet Explorer results in a new browser window instead of a popup window. For example:

Communication between the new window and originating site is not possible either, since both popup (above) … Continue reading →

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How to quickly get the Group ID for an Office 365 Group

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Dan

Microsoft Graph typically requires us to use the Group ID when working with O365 groups and modern sites. But Group ID can be tricky to find since it is rarely displayed. Here are some ways I found to quickly get … Continue reading →

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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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