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Solved: Intermittent SharePoint Framework Caching and 404 deployment errors

Problem

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) offers a flexible approach to building custom solutions for Microsoft SharePoint that leverage modern web development technologies.

Recently whilst deploying a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solution into a SharePoint Online environment, I encountered intermittent caching issues and 404 failures. There was no clear pattern as to why the issues would occur. After staring at the code and pulling my hair out, I eventually came across a solution…

In this post, I’ll be sharing the solution that worked for me.

Solved: Set SharePoint Person Field to Null in Power Automate

16th September 2021 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 2 Comments

Problem

Whilst trying to update a SharePoint Online List Item through Power Automate I noticed that I was unable to clear a Person field within a given List Item.

After some research it turns out that the Power Automate SharePoint Online connector currently does not support this operation when performing an ‘update’ operation.

In this post I’ll explain the solution that I found, and ultimately ended up using.

How to: Change SharePoint Default Permissions Group

16th June 2021 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 0 Comments

SharePoint Default Permission Groups 101

After creating a new SharePoint Online site (aka Site Collection) several permissions groups are automatically created for you to help you manage permissions for the given SharePoint site.

By default, the following default permissions groups are created for you:

SharePoint Group	Default Permissions Level
<site name> Members	Edit
<site name> Owners	Full Control
<site name> Visitors	Read

Fixed: SPFx Web Part Long Load Time

25th August 2020 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 0 Comments

Problem

While working on a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) webpart I noticed some odd performance issues… My SPFx webpart was very slow to initially load.

I was initially a bit puzzled by this however after some investigation I discovered the below solution.

SharePoint – Object Already Exists Error

2nd February 2016 / Shane Bartholomeusz / 0 Comments

Problem

We recently encountered the following error in our SharePoint 2010 environment while trying to remove an existing Web Application.

An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebsiteUnprovisioningJobDefinition named “Unprovisioning XXXXX” already exists under the parent Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService named “”. Rename your object or delete the existing object.

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