Authenticate TFS and VSTS with PAT

April 8, 2018 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is one of my favorite tool for source code management. It’s not just limited to that. It has appeal to everyone. From a large team to a small team to even a single developer!

If you’re using VSTS with Visual Studio then, you need not have to worry about this setup. VSTS is beautifully integrated with it. Visual Studio, directly, lets you sign-in to your VSTS or TFS account. However, if we have to use it outside Visual Studio, for ex, Visual Studio Code then, this authentication needs to be done manually!

For any application, which do not support Microsoft account or Azure AD authentication, VSTS needs to be authenticated by Personal Access Tokens (PAT).

SharePoint: Local Accounts should only be used in stand alone mode

March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

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I was installing a new standalone SharePoint on my local VM. Post the installation, I started running the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. While running it, I received the following error,

The specified user ******* is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in stand alone mode.

OData $expand not working – SharePoint REST API

March 4, 2018March 4, 2018 Piyush K Singh4 Comments

As I have explained in one of my earlier post that, there are 2 REST APIs to retrieve items from SharePoint: –

Items – GET request and,
GetItems – POST request. CAML query in the body.

In this post, I’ll be discussing about the latter.
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Retrieve Lookup, Managed Metadata, and, Person or Group data – SharePoint

August 31, 2017March 2, 2018 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

In my, previous post, I had demonstrated how to get List Items using SharePoint REST API. In this post, we will see how to retrieve the following fields:

Lookup
Managed Metadata
Person or Group

SharePoint REST API: Retrieve List Items Comparison

July 31, 2017August 3, 2017 Piyush K Singh1 Comment

In this post, I am going to perform a comparative analysis between the two SharePoint REST API methods, getitems and items. Both are used to fetch items from a SharePoint List.

The program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing

May 21, 2017May 22, 2017 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

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I installed MongoDB on one of the Windows prod server. The installation was successful. However, when I tried to start the application, I got the following error:

The program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer.

Office365, Apps and Multi-Factor Authentication

May 4, 2017August 3, 2017 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

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I had just enabled the multi-factor authentication option for my Office365 account. I chose authentication by Microsoft Authenticator app. Once the setup was completed, I was able to successfully access my Office365 account/apps online i.e., in a web browser. However, on my laptop, I was unable to sign into any of my office apps (Outlook, Skype for Business, etc.).
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