Powershell Upload Multiple Files to SharePoint

SharePoint document library enables us to manage documents. In some cases, we need to upload multiple files to that library.  A common approach to automate this process is to integrate via the SharePoint Restful APIs. In this article, we take a look at using PowerShell to create a script that...

SharePoint 2013 Service Cannot be Activated on host-named Site Collection

A host-named site collection on SharePoint has a URL format of apps.ozkary.com. In comparison, a path-based site collection has this URL ozkary.com/sites/apps. When using a host-named site collection for document libraries, we may encounter some behavior that it is not reproducible when using...

Move an Azure Subscription to a Different AD Directory

When managing multiple Azure AD and subscriptions, we need to create subscription on a particular Azure AD to grant access to the users in the directory. This allows us to prevent unauthorized access to other subscriptions. In some cases, we may want to transfer a subscription to a different AD directory.  As...

Microsoft MVP Award - 2017

On July 2017, I was proud to receive my second Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. This year the award came in earlier than expected, as the Microsoft MVP program decided to grant these awards once a year moving forward.   This is rewarding recognition that makes...

SQL Server - Pivot Rows to Columns

On systems that are meta-data driven, there may not be a concrete table schema declaration, and the meta-data values can be stored as rows. To provide an example, let’s build a custom_field table that can hold multiple custom values for a particular entity:CodeProject Pivoting rows to columns Setup...