Mario's Mo' Betta Blog

A tech journal with all my tricks for making things mo' betta. I work for Microsoft. Posts are my own opinions

SharePoint Online Sandboxed Solutions Disabled

Credit to Brian Jackett who let us know about this change. The Office Dev Center released this post...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 08/02/2016

O365 PowerShell error "DTD is prohibited in this XML document"

I was trying to admin an Office 365 E3 tenant from my home office. I followed the instructions...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 06/05/2016

The Mystery of the missing OneNote Section Group

This happened in OneNote 2016 but I imagine it's the same on 2013 as well. I make extensive use of...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/07/2016

Upgraded to WordPress, Twitter feed added

Looks like I've been sleeping on the latest changes to the TechNet blogs hosting platform. We've...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 12/11/2015

My Coffee Tips

I know this isn't technology, but I think coffee and techies are spiritually related topics. I...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 06/25/2015

Your Azure credentials have not been set up

I recently upgraded to version 0.8.16 of Azure PowerShell and I got the following error when trying...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 04/22/2015

Shut Down Azure VM’s Automatically

I’m focusing more on Azure Technologies in order to complement my SharePoint workloads. To this end...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/13/2015

SharePoint 2007 SiteMap Script

I’ve had to dig up some PS scripts from my SP2007 days and I thought I’d share. Here’s a script that...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 02/11/2015

RIP SharePoint Conference

Yesterday Julie White announced that we will have a new unified event in Chicago in 2015 that will...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 07/22/2014

Multiple Azure Subscriptions

I am working writing a script that leverages with Azure IaaS via PowerShell. I also have access to...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 07/07/2014

Missing Azure PowerShell Features

I had already downloaded the Azure PowerShell modules a while back, and I noticed that the...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 06/30/2014

OneDrive Sharing for Non-Techies

A non-techie colleague though he had shared one of his OneDrive folders with me. The link I got was...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 06/05/2014

SharePoint SP1 Temporarily Pulled.

Yeah, kind of like that. The SharePoint team has temporarily pulled Service Pack 1. Per the...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 04/03/2014

Windows Phone Sync Error 80070057

All of a sudden my Microsoft account (aka outlook.com) would not sync on my Lumia 920 running...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/14/2014

Outlook 2013 SP1 Breaks Drag and Drop Email

I installed Office 2013 SP1 today and I noticed that my Outlook client would no longer allow me to...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 02/26/2014

SharePoint Conference 2014

I’ll be attending the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year. This will be my 3rd SPC. I feel...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 02/18/2014

Installing the SharePoint Online Management Shell on Windows 8.1

I’m running Windows 8.1 and attempted to install the SharePoint Online Management Shell. The...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 01/23/2014

All Day Events and GMT

I am observing a weird quirk with All Day events in a SharePoint calendar. The problem is the “All...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/22/2013

Passing Parameters to NewForm.aspx

User Story A customer wanted to distribute a survey that would anonymously collect information from...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/21/2013

Custom CRUD forms break when list schema changes

Symptom A customer has a list with custom New, Edit and Display .aspx forms. The customer later...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/20/2013

Shrink Database Size for SAT

I routinely have to backup and restore databases from customer’s prod environment to the SAT...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 11/02/2012

PowerPivot “Unsupported Features” warning on EWA

Problem An Excel workbook displays the following warning when viewed through Excel Web Access (EWA)...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 08/20/2012

SharePoint 2010 Templates for Government

Microsoft Gold Partner TechSol has released a collection of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 07/16/2012

Account SID’s

If a user's account gets deleted and then re-created with the same name you will have an orphaned...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 07/05/2012

Create InfoPath forms as another user

A customer had an InfoPath form library with hundreds of forms already posted. He encountered an...

Author: Mario Brandan Date: 03/28/2012