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My Surface Pro 4 was recently updated which reset some of my setting. This was driving me crazy because I am not a fan of the Autorotate feature that comes with a surface (when it tries to act like a tablet). Personally, I like everything to remain in landscape mode at all times – that …

Some of the IM and compliance folks out there may like to know there is a great searchable list of audited events for #O365, including admin events (link). From a pragmatic point of view, for basic #recordsmanagement, the fundamentals are: (1) create the right record at the right time with the right business context metadata, (2) …

A while ago I ran into an issue where I was unable to successfully build a new SharePoint 2016 farm because the Products Configuration Wizard was throwing an error. The error was as follows.     Failed to create the configuration database.     An exception of type System.Xml.Schema.SchemaException was thrown. Additional exception information: Feature …

If you’re trying to set up an infinite scrolling script in SharePoint, you may run into issues calculating the height of the document and comparing it to how far the user has scrolled. This is due to how SharePoint overrides typical scrolling behaviour to allow the ribbon to stay put at the top of the …

One of the key steps of being able to utilize services in Office 365 from Office 2016 is to connect the two together. This a fairly simple procedure, and I’ve created an easy step by step process to set this up as seen below.     Start by launching Word 2016.         …

Recently I was trying to sync a new SharePoint library in a site I have setup in Office 365, and after having tried many other blog posts, none of them worked, and I had to come up with my own solution.     The error I was seeing was as follows.   “Microsoft OneDrive for …

Export to PST from Office 365 How to export to PST from Office 365 I ran into the odd situation today where a customer wanted to export away from Office 365 to PST. Using Office 365’s Search & investigation option it was actually really easy. First log into your Office 365 tenancy with an account …

I recently encountered the following error message when running the Products Configuration Wizard (psconfig) in SharePoint 2013.     Exception: System.ArgumentException: The IncomingUrl is already present in the collection in a different zone.  A url may only map to one zone at a time.  Use a different url for requests from this zone.   Although …

I was recently working on a customer SharePoint site when I was running into this issue with trying to import new data into their environment.     Import-SPWeb : Could not find language 1040     It was truly very frustrating as I had already installed what I thought was the correct language pack. Actually …

Recently I was using Office 2016 to save to a new location that I’d never saved to previously. Unfortunately, it turns out I was already connected to a large number of services (as I work as a consultant and am often working on many projects at once). Before I could connect to a new service, …