Effect on SharePoint sites that use ADFS/SAML and Forms Based Authentication in Chrome version 80+
Issue : You are using Google Chrome 80, and when you have ADFS/SAML or FBA configured site, you notice that intermittently, users logging in fails and goes into a login loop. The following error is received on ADFS : "An error occured. Contact your administrator for...
Troubleshooting Explorer view and mapped drives to SharePoint
Overview Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) is an extension of the HTTP protocol that allows the user to interact with and manipulate files stored on a web server. The Windows implementation of the DAV protocol as a mini-redirector is handled by the WebClient...
Introduction to SharePoint Online Search
Microsoft SharePoint Online Search is an integral part of SharePoint Online and it is the backbone of many features across Office 365. Below is a list of a few features that are driven by search and used daily: Enterprise Search center Site Search List and library...
SharePoint provider hosted add-ins stop working in Safari 13.1 browser
The Problem When using the new Safari 13.1 browser with Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), 3rd party cookies are not allowed by default to remove the ability for websites to track you using cookies. When an iframe is hosted in a page, it's cookies, even if they...
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 93
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Ayça Baş, Cloud Advocate from Microsoft concentrating...
Network optimization tips for on-premises Office installs and updates
There are a variety of scenarios including but not limited to, installations of Office using Content Delivery Network (CDN), lean 2nd installs (removing the Office source files from the install packages), right-sized first install (only include most used language...
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Community (PnP) – August 2020 update
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Ecosystem (PnP) August 2020 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from Microsoft or from the community for the community. This article is a summary of all the different areas and topics...
Patching Distributed Cache for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016
Is your SharePoint 2013 or 2016 farms Distributed Cache services Healthy? If not you might need to patch. One way to validate your Distributed Cache service is healthy is to pull some ULS logs from one of the Distributed cache servers in the farm. Using...
Boost security of your remote workers with confidence using Security Policy Advisor
When it comes to securing the Microsoft 365 Apps using policies, IT Pros often face a challenge: You want to tighten security as much as possible to keep the bad guys out, but at the same time you do not want to impact your user’s productivity. And you would...