Scenario You open SharePoint Designer and load a site from a tenancy for the first time, you are prompted for credentials and the site opens. SharePoint Designer caches those credentials so that you’re not promted to enter them again. You now wish to open the site again in SharePoint Designer using different credentials, but when you … Continue reading SharePoint Designer Cached Credentials and Sorry, another account from your organization is already signed in
Understanding the OAuth2 redirect_uri and Azure AD Reply URL Parameters
When you register an Azure AD application, amongst other things you are required to configure a Reply URL, which by default takes its value from the Sign-On URL value you enter during the Azure application registration wizard. The explanation for the Reply URL parameter is in most cases a little vague… From Authentication Scenarios for AzureAD… Reply URL and Redirect … Continue reading Understanding the OAuth2 redirect_uri and Azure AD Reply URL Parameters
Grokking the AzureAD OAuth2 Implicit Grant Flow
References: Authentication Scenarios for AzureAD The OAuth2 Implicit Grant flow is designed for use by applications which cannot maintain the security of an application registration client secret, typically applications which run in a browser. Unlike the Authorization Code grant flow, the implicit grant flow returns to the client an access token upon successful authentication when the … Continue reading Grokking the AzureAD OAuth2 Implicit Grant Flow
SharePoint Client People Picker Control Helper
The SharePoint people picker client-side control is a bit of an opaque beast, many times when you’re doing a client-side customisation you might want to Add or Remove person or group entities or otherwise examine the list of entities the user has selected. The good news is that there is an API of sorts found in clientpeoplepicker.js, as … Continue reading SharePoint Client People Picker Control Helper
SharePoint Search and the Inconvenient MetadataExtractorTitle Crawled Property
References: Confusing titles and PDF files in SharePoint Search Show more relevant Titles in search results in SharePoint 2013 plus some other improvements SharePoint 2013 Search Configuration for Title I recently came across a problem in SharePoint Search which had me flumuxed for a while, looking at the search results below is displayed the results of … Continue reading SharePoint Search and the Inconvenient MetadataExtractorTitle Crawled Property