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Change SharePoint Wiki Page Title

Microsoft SharePoint Logo At the time of writing this article, Microsoft has already rolled out the modern experience to all the lists and libraries.

In the old classic sites, there was a possibility to change the the title of Wiki pages and now that is almost gone, but still there is a way to change the title.

Follow the steps below to change the wiki page title.

  1. In the SitePages/Pages switch to “Return to classic SharePoint” at the bottom left.
  2. Edit the views of “By Author” or “All Pages”.
    1. Add the column “Title”.
    2. Save the changes to the view.
  3. Go back to the view.
  4. Click on the ribbon and expand tab “Library”.
  5. Click on the “Quick Edit”.
  6. Make the changes to the respective page’s title column.
  7. Exit “Quick Edit” to save the changes.

Do please note that for now this works but not sure how long Microsoft will keep this option open.

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SharePoint

Enabling SharePoint App catalogue at site collection level in SharePoint Online

Microsoft SharePoint Logo Sometimes we require to deploy SharePoint apps to a development site collection instead of tenant app catalogue. During those scenarios the following PowerShell command can be used to enable the app catalogue at site collection level.

Please note that you will require SharePoint Online Management Shell for this PowerShell to work. Please refer here for installation.

Enabling site collection app catalogue

Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourtenant-admin.sharepoint.com

# Reference of the site collection where the site collection app catalogue should reside
$site = Get-SPOSite https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursitecollection
 
# Create app catalogue in the site collection
Add-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalog -Site $site

Disabling site collection app catalogue

Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourtenant-admin.sharepoint.com

# Reference of the site collection where the site collection app catalogue should reside
$site = Get-SPOSite https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursitecollection
 
# Remove app catalogue from the site collection
Remove-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalog -Site $site
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SharePoint

Remove the title banner from SharePoint modern page

Microsoft SharePoint Logo The title banner in the modern pages of SharePoint takes a lot of space.

Even if you try to switch to “Plain” title layout, the title area still will take some space.

To completely remove the space, you can run the following PnP PowerShell command with the ID of the page.

For more about PnP PowerShell, visit this link.

Set-PnPListItem -List SitePages –Identity <id> -Values @{"PageLayoutType"="Home"}

First connect to the site using the following command

Connect-PnPOnline https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/site-where-the-page-exists

Then find out the ID of the page using the following command. This command assumes that the page is located within “SitePage” library.

Get-PnPListItem -List SitePages

Finally set the page’s layout type to “Home” by running the following command.

Set-PnPListItem -List SitePages –Identity <id> -Values @{"PageLayoutType"="Home"}

Now the title area is totally gone.

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Windows

Logon attempt failed for remote desktop Windows 10

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Scenario

  • My remote PC is a Windows 10 Pro v1809.
  • The remote PC Windows user is an Office 365 user.
  • I’m trying to login to my remote PC and I get the error “Logon attempt failed”.
  • The following are the various user IDs I tried and none of them worked.
    • user@domain.com
    • AzureAD\user@domain.com
    • AzureAD\user
The logon attempt failed

Solution

  1. Save an RDP connection as file with parameters like name of the PC.
  2. Open the RDP file using a text editor like notepad.
  3. Modify the entry “authentication level” to “authentication level:i:0”
    1. Make sure the “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication” is unchecked in the remote machine’s settings.
  4. Add the entry “enablecredsspsupport:i:0”.
  5. Now save the file.
  6. Run the RDP file and it should connect to remote machine and show you the login screen of the remote machine
  7. Type in the username as AzureAD\user@domain.com
  8. Password as login password and not the Windows PIN.
  9. Now you should be able to login.

Refer here for more information.

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SharePoint

Using React and Office UI Fabric React Components by Andrew Connell

Microsoft SharePoint Logo For a long time I was trying to switch from Angular to React for building SharePoint Modern Web Part but was finding it difficult to start off.

The lab posted here by Andrew Connell, helps to get started.

You can also view the video below.

You can also view the lab as document from the below pdf file generated on 09 May 2019

SP-dev-training-spfx-react-fabric-lab.pdfDownload
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SharePoint

Sharepoint Online’s modern experience web parts and their quivalent classic experience web parts

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SharePoint’s modern experience web parts is an easy and fast way to bring content to the viewer. But at the same time it’s not as configurable or as exhaustive as it is when compared to classic experience web parts.

The following URL shows some of the modern web part equivalents of classic web parts. Please note that these are not a 1:1 matching, instead they have similar functionalities.

Click here to visit “Classic and modern web part experiences” by Microsoft

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SharePoint

SharePoint Online Data Restoration Timeline

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SharePoint online has a data backup and restoration policy which for some users might be confusing. The following article will provide you a clarity to an extent.

In short a data can be restored within 108 days until unless it’s prematurely deleted by admin, in which case the data can be restore 14 days from premature deletion by admin.

User deleting a data:
When a user deletes a list item, or document library item or any site object, that deleted data is moved to a site’s recycle bin and stays there for 93 days or till user deletes it or site collection recycle bin quota exceeds.

User deleting a site recycle bin item:
When a user deletes an item from site recycle bin, that item is moved to site collections recycle bin. Only the site collection administrator will have access to this recycle bin. Here too the item stays there for 93 days from the date the user deleted it originally or till admin deletes it or site collection recycle bin quota exceeds.

Note:
Make a note that an item deleted by user will stay for 93 days regardless of it being there in site recycle bin (can be restored by user) or site collection recycle bin (can be restored by admin).

Admin deleting an item from site collection recycle bin/auto deletion:
Once an item is deleted from site collection recycle bin, it still can be restored if it’s available in the data backup by Microsoft
taken twice daily. Again this backup is available only for 14 days and SharePoint admin has to raise a support ticket.

Note:
When Microsoft restores the data, they will restore it as a whole site collection and not as individual item.

Pictorial Representation:

SharePoint Online Data Restoration Timeline
SharePoint Online Data Restoration Timeline

Source:https://kannan.page.link/XQFV


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SharePoint

Get folder and files recursively in SharePoint using REST call

There was a simple requirement I came across for which a page should list all the files and folders in a SharePoint document library.

I came up with a solution using ODATA call. Following is the REST call I made to get the list of all folder and files.

/_api/web/Lists/GetByTitle(‘Documents’)/Items?$select=FileLeafRef,FileRef&$orderby=FileRef asc

Following is the code which quickly prints them out in a table. Just add this code to a script editor web-part.
Please make sure the URL is updated based on your site URL.

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $.ajax({
        url: "<site url>/_api/web/Lists/GetByTitle('Documents')/Items?$select=FileLeafRef,FileRef&$orderby=FileRef asc",
        type: "GET",
        headers: {
            "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
        },
        success: function (data, textStatus, xhr)
        {
            $.each(data.d.results, function (index, item)
            {
                // alert("The items in list are : " + item.FileRef);
                $("#table1 tbody").append("<tr><td>" + item.FileRef + "</td></tr>");
            })
        },
        error: function r(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown)
        {
            alert("error:" + JSON.stringify(xhr));
        }
    });
</script>

<table id="table1">
    <tbody></tbody>
</table>
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SharePoint

Enable tree view in current navigation within SharePoint

Sometime we need to enable tree view in current navigation to help navigate within document libraries.

Traditional Way:

Site Settings -> Look and Feel: Navigation Elements -> Check ‘Enable Tree View’

Programmatic way using PnP Powershell:

try {
    $web = Get-PnPWeb -Includes TreeViewEnabled
    Write-Host "Setting options to enable tree view..."
    $web.TreeViewEnabled = $true        
    $web.Update()
    Invoke-PnPQuery
    Write-Host "Completed."
}
catch {
    $ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message
    Write-Host "Error enabling tree view. $ErrorMessage"
}
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SharePoint

Disable ‘Allow items from this site to be downloaded to offline clients’ in SharePoint

Sometime we need to disable the “Sync” button in SharePoint document libraries and that can be done by the following methods.

Traditional Way:

Site Settings -> Search: Search and offline availability -> Set ‘Allow items from this site to be downloaded to offline clients?’ to “No”

Programmatic way using PnP Powershell:

try {
    $web = Get-PnPWeb -Includes ExcludeFromOfflineClient
    Write-Host "Setting options to disable 'Allow items from this site to be downloaded to offline clients'..."
    $web.ExcludeFromOfflineClient = $true        
    $web.Update()
    Invoke-PnPQuery
    Write-Host "Completed."
}
catch {
    $ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message
    Write-Host "Error disabling offline clients. $ErrorMessage"
}