For me the issue was this part of the XML request: <AddWebPart xmlns=’http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages/’> (with a / at the end of the url) instead of <AddWebPart xmlns=’http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages’>.

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Sometimes, when I open a new tab in Chrome, it first tries to get chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html and while it’s doing it, I cannot enter any URL. Eventually it will popup a message asking me if I want to wait or exit the page… The way I found to fix it is to go to the page […]

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Gmail could report back this error message: “Our system has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your IP address” If your DKIM, SPF and DMARC are all set and your emails are correctly identified, then you may want to check the both links: Good links to get help on what to do: […]

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Due to the 5,000 items threshold limitation it can become very frustrating to administrate Sharepoint. For example, if your list has more than 5,000 items, you cannot add an index, delete a lookup/people column, delete the list or the website, and more ! Hopefully some of the operations can be done with REST API, and […]

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Finding the documentation for the Search REST API of Sharepoint is difficult…. There is a very old blog post that I’m going to replicate here to give more visibility:   Location of the Search Rest service The Search REST service is located at the following URI: http://host/site/_api/search   The Search REST API The Search REST […]

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After diging around for an exim4 problem (remote_smtp: message is too big (transport limit = 1)), I found the answer in this post: Add “IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT=1” in the exim4 config file (/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf), then restart exim4

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With Sharepoint you can use SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail to send email in JavaScript, however you could receive the below error: “The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the e-mail has a valid recipient.” After searching the web, I found the solution: instead of using an email address for the recipients you have to use the userDomain […]

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When I want to reload my MariaDB server, I receive the below error: /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed error: ‘Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: NO)’ The solution is to provide the root’s password in the file `/etc/mysql/debian.cnf` and then the error is gone!

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As explained in some threads, Internet Explorer adds some invisible extra characters when returning a date from the JavaScript function new Intl.DateTimeformat. var day = “Thursday”; var intlDay = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(‘en-US’, {weekday:”long”}).format(new Date(2019,1,7)); console.log(day === intlDay); // return FALSE with IE intlDay = intlDay.replace(/\u200E/g, ”); // replace \u200E console.log(day === intlDay); // return TRUE with […]

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Sources: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44988163/create-self-signed-certificate-for-testing-localhost-and-have-it-accepted-by-the http://woshub.com/how-to-create-self-signed-certificate-with-powershell/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4691699/how-to-convert-crt-to-pem/4691749#4691749 https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserver-https If you develop with Webpack under Windows and you want to open your localhost server in HTTPS with IE11 you may receive a message like : “Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate.” Below I explain the steps to make it work with IE11: […]

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