Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Problem: When trying to open a SharePoint Online site through SharePoint Designer, got this error message, “We can’t sign you into your company portal because something on the server isn’t configured correctly” Solution: Login to the site through Internet Explorer, so that your authentication cookie gets generated!
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Problem: When trying to run a PowerShell script in SharePoint, got this error Get-SPWeb : The term ‘Get-SPWeb’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and…
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Problem: When trying to delete a SharePoint Online site collection, getting an error message “Can’t Delete Site: A compliance policy is currently blocking this site deletion”. Also, in SharePoint Admin center, we get an intimation saying “This site has a compliance policy set to block deletion.” Root Cause: This is because of…
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Problem: Getting “The sign-in name or password does not match one in the Microsoft account system” Error in SharePoint Online. Solution: I’ve experienced this error in SharePoint Online PowerShell scripts a couple of times and this could happen in any of the PowerShell methods like CSOM, SharePoint Online Management Shell, or PnP…
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Problem: When trying to change site theme in SharePoint Online through “Settings >> Change the Look >> Theme” got an error message “There was an error while attempting to get the themes”. Workaround: When you do multiple changes to the site’s look and feel like changing header, icons, and themes in one…
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Problem: I was trying to install SharePoint Online PnP PowerShell module with “Install-Module -Name SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline” and got this error message: Install-Module : The term ‘Install-Module’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,…
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Problem: Getting “Access Denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource” error when trying to upload a File or creating a folder in “Style Library”. Also, we get a similar error when trying to create a new folder: Solution: This is because the Custom script is…
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Problem: Getting “Get-SPOSite: The managed path sites/URL is not a managed path in this tenant.” error in PowerShell. Solution: A simple PowerShell script to get a site collection in SharePoint Online gave this error message. After a while, I noticed the error is because of the “/” character at the end of…
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Problem: When trying to import the PnP PowerShell module, got an error message “Import-Module: The specified module ‘SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline’ was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory” Solution: This is because the PowerShell console or ISE is unable to get the module from given module path’s in…
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Problem: When trying to open a SharePoint Online site in SharePoint Designer, got this error message “You do not have permission to open this website in SharePoint Designer” Solution: By default, SharePoint designer customization are disabled in modern group sites in SharePoint Online. To enable SharePoint designer, You have to set the…
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