For a long running script that was also executed in a lot of batches in Azure Automation, we recently started getting this error occasionally: Thread failed to start. (Thread failed to start. (Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.)) We contacted MS Support about it, since there were no changes…
While the inventory report supplied by Microsoft already exports quite some information about your videos in Stream Classic, there is also still some things missing. Such as the channels description and logo images. These can be used to setup a video portal with a site for each company-wide Stream classic…
Here are three nice tips for handling the new playlists for videos in SharePoint Online. These could become handy during or after your MS Stream migration into SharePoint and OneDrive. Find all playlists You can find all playlists via search using the managed property ListTemplateTypeId and a specific GUID. See…
The video playlist feature was released just yesterday, but of course the MVP is quite limited. I did however find our a neat trick: You can create a nice overview of the videos in the playlist using the embed webpart! Simply use the embed webpart with the link of the…
Or how to remove SharePoint redirect sites the right way! In some occasions you will want to change the URL of an SharePoint Online site. Maybe the function has changed or the team name for example. You can do that wiht the PnP PowerShell commandlet: Rename-PnPTenantSite. When you do so…
Background: Teams working in an Agile methodology will have regular meetings where they prioritize the work they need to do (the User Stories) and vote for the effort and complexity of every story through Scrum poker. Problem: Due to corona virus measures most Scrum planning and voting meetings happen via…
A (long) while back I hacked a sharepoint site to behave as a Progressive Web App (PWA). I always wanted to improve that solution so it works well and is created using supported tooling. Recently I achieved just that in a Modern SharePoint site. Using only a SPFx Application customizer…
Here's a short blog about a nifty trick a TREMENDOUSLY talented colleague of mine found. Background: Say you are developing a business application using Azure Logic Apps and SharePoint Online. You'll want to deploy it to multiple SharePoint tenants or site collections within a tenant for system testing and user…
Introduction When you're managing a SharePoint online tenant you'll probably need to investigate performance on a regular basis. Sometimes users report issues and you'll need to open up a support case with Microsoft. Without supporting data you'll have a hard time providing the right information to really get a quality…
Background Let's say you’re an administrator for a large company that has a substantial Office365 tenant that consist of many SharePoint sites (e.g. more than 20000). And you want to run some kind of monitoring or maintenance script on all those sites. Of course you want to use…