You built this beautiful new web part and it looks great in SharePoint. You click the Sync to Teams button to try it out there only to find that your icons are missing. You think it’s your issue because maybe your styles are wrong. It’s not. I tried all sorts of things, but it turnsContinue reading “Office Fabric icons not showing in SPFx web parts in Microsoft Teams”
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How to: Use PnP.PowerShell to deploy SharePoint apps with Azure DevOps
Automating SPFx builds and deployment to your environments will save you tons of time after you get it built. I wrote the post How to: Setup CI / CD in Azure DevOps to walk you through step-by-step how to get it working. While this post is largely still valid, there are better ways to doContinue reading “How to: Use PnP.PowerShell to deploy SharePoint apps with Azure DevOps”
Switch to Ubuntu Agent Pools in Azure DevOps for faster SPFx build times
If you have taken the time to set up SPFx builds (CI / CD) in Azure DevOps pipelines, you should take a look at which agent pool you are using. I had always heard that Ubuntu was significantly faster and the rumors are in fact true. I found that Ubuntu cut my build times inContinue reading “Switch to Ubuntu Agent Pools in Azure DevOps for faster SPFx build times”
Conquering undefined with optional chaining in SPFx
If you are a SharePoint Framework developer, you know that you never know what type of data you are going to get back from the SharePoint API. On one page, you can find a deeply nested value in the context object and the next, you get undefined somewhere in the chain. Take a look atContinue reading “Conquering undefined with optional chaining in SPFx”
Using Microsoft Forms with Attachments
I’m a huge proponent of Microsoft Forms. In my organization, we’re starting to use them for everything. Here’s just a sample of some of my forms, they really are making life easier when it comes to collecting data. However one of the gaps when we started implementing them was the lack of attachments. This wasContinue reading “Using Microsoft Forms with Attachments”
Managing multiple identities with the new Edge browser
If you are a consultant, you probably have a lot of Microsoft identities in Azure Active Directory that you use to access resources like Office 365. I, myself, have at least 10 that are active right now and an uncountable number that I’m not using any more. If you use a single browser to accessContinue reading “Managing multiple identities with the new Edge browser”
Microsoft Forms Web Part error: “This is not a valid form link.”
Last week, I was building some simple request forms using Microsoft Forms and I wanted to embed one on a modern SharePoint Page. I created, the form, added the Microsoft Forms web part, but when I pasted the link to the form, I got the following error: This is not a valid form link. PleaseContinue reading “Microsoft Forms Web Part error: “This is not a valid form link.””
Using the Developer Console to exit SharePoint Classic Mode
For some reason on one of my tenants, the “Return to Modern” link simply doesn’t render any more and it hasn’t for months. I don’t go back to Classic Mode very often but it’s a necessity to remove an SPFx package still. Once I remove my package, I get stuck in Classic Mode. I’m notContinue reading “Using the Developer Console to exit SharePoint Classic Mode”
How to: Provision Lookup Columns and Projected Fields using PnP PowerShell
If there is anything that is hard to work with in SharePoint, it’s lookup columns. While it’s so easy and simple to create them through the SharePoint user interface (well the classic interface), they are incredibly complex to provision programmatically. I remember struggles behind provisioning lookup columns going back as far as 2007 if notContinue reading “How to: Provision Lookup Columns and Projected Fields using PnP PowerShell”
How to: Setup CI / CD in Azure DevOps with the help of SPFx Generator
Updated: January 20th, 2020 – Refer to this post to use the latest version of PowerShell and certificate authentication. This post will be updated in the future to include those updates. Updated:May 28th, 2019 to use SPFx 1.8 and node.js v10 Updated: May 8th, 2019 to include use of SecureString There are a lot ofContinue reading “How to: Setup CI / CD in Azure DevOps with the help of SPFx Generator”
