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I’ve been working with SPFx for SharePoint Online for quite a while and have done numerous client projects for it but recently I’ve been asked to create a few SPFx web parts that would work on both SharePoint Online (SPO) and SharePoint 2019 (SP2019).

I was working on a recent SharePoint Framework (SPFx) project where one of the requirements was that a list of data be displayed using the DetailsList Office UI Fabric React control and specific columns needed the width set based on the data contained within the list.

There are many challenges when migrating from SharePoint on-premises to SharePoint Online and one of the more common ones that I’ve encountered is handling email enabled libraries. These are libraries in SharePoint on-premises which are configured to allow a user to send an email with an attachment to a specified email address and the attachment is then stored in the library as a file.

When troubleshooting SharePoint, you often have to dig several levels deep to discover the root of an issue. Recently one of my clients was running into an issue where the IIS application pool that was associated with their PowerPivot service application was crashing regularly at a specific time (within a minute or two) every day.

Today I discovered an interesting issue with the new SharePoint Modern Library views on Office 365. One of my clients for whom I had built an application that loads some content within an iframe element on the site was suddenly no longer able to get the Modern Library pages to render correctly – they would simply show up as a blank page.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the previous article, Working with Lists and List Items Using the SharePoint REST Service and Windows PowerShell, I showed the PowerShell equivalents to the examples in the Working with lists and list items with REST MSDN article.

Update 10/25/2017: The ITUnity.com site no longer exists and as such my articles and author profile aren’t there any more. I’ve reposted the articles on my own blog and updated the links below to point to them instead of ITUnity.

I’ve been pretty slow to learning how to use github for the management of my open source projects but I’ve finally managed to take the time to at least learn enough so that I could move my main projects over.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the previous article, Using a Custom Windows PowerShell Function to Make SharePoint REST Service Calls, I detailed a custom utility function, Invoke-SPORestMethod, that can be used to make RESTful calls against a SharePoint REST Service endpoint.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the article, Using the SharePoint REST Service with Windows PowerShell, I detailed how to use Windows PowerShell to make simple RESTful calls against your SharePoint Online Site Collection.