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About pgbhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar is a Microsoft AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Professional. He currently works as a Senior Solution Architect at WithumSmith+Brown, P.C. (formerly Portal Solutions), one of the top 30 advisory and accounting firms in the United States. He is a trusted advisor and Subject Matter Expert in Intelligent Business Process Automation, development and post-implementation adoption of complex custom solutions in AI, Machine Learning, Bots, Azure, Office 365, and SharePoint. Prashant has supported a multitude of government agencies and non-profit organizations in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Prashant is the co-author of the book “PowerShell for Office 365 “and is the technical reviewer of the book "Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration." He serves on the leadership committee for the Azure Data Fest conference, Artificial Intelligence Fest conference, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning User Group, DC Metro Office 365 User Group, SharePoint Saturday Baltimore event, and SharePoint Saturday Washington DC event. He is a renowned international speaker and actively speaks at technical conferences, most recently in India, Canada, England, Bangladesh, Peru , Washington DC, Austin, New York, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Fun fact??, Prashant is a recipient of the "Antarctic Service Medal of the United States of America" for his outstanding service in Antarctica.

SharePoint 2019 Workflows stuck on starting with error None of the trusted issuers specified by the server’s 401 challenge match the client’s known issuer

We recently deployed the Workflow Manager in SharePoint 2019 farm. After we deployed the April 2020 CU, the SharePoint 2013 style workflows were getting stuck on starting with the following error. System.Net.WebException: The request was aborted: The request was canceled. … Continue reading

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PnP Provisioning Error: Field not found Issue with the Repost Page Content Type

Recently we encountered an error in the provisioning process using PnP Provisioning Engine in SharePoint Online. The processing process was working fine from last 1.5 years and suddenly in the middle of May 2018, it started failing with the following … Continue reading

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Office 365: How to force log out multiple users using PowerShell Script?

To force log out users, we can use the Office 365 Admin Center or PowerShell. In Office 365 Admin center, use the following the following steps. Office 365 Admin Center Users -> Active Users ->Select the User and in the OneDrive … Continue reading

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New Book Released: PowerShell for Office 365

It gives me immense pleasure to announce that the book I co-authored with Martin Machado is released by Packt publishing. The title of the book is “PowerShell for Office 365“ and the contents are geared towards the administrators and the … Continue reading

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How to find ID of Office 365 Group?

Recently I worked on a Project where I had to provision and modify the Office 365 Groups using the Microsoft Graph APIs. During testing, I had to get the Group ID and pass it to a custom REST endpoint we … Continue reading

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How to update the License information in Visual Studio 2013/2015?

With the introduction of MSDN accounts in Visual Studio 2013/2015, we can now use the same settings across the different environment. Gone are the days where every time we start a new project, and use new server/machine we need to … Continue reading

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SharePoint Workflows Migration Scenarios

“What happens to the workflows post migration? Do they run as SharePoint 2010 style workflows or SharePoint 2013 style workflows?” Continue reading

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Podcasts I listen to..

So much is happening in the technology world and it is really hard to keep up with all the latest and greatest information. Podcasts are one of the mediums we can use to keep ourselves up to date. Since Podcasts … Continue reading

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Eliminate The Paperwork Bottleneck With Custom SharePoint Intranet

Frustrated by the constant feeling of drowning in paperwork? If you’re annoyed by the slow response times or lack of accountability in your organization, your organization should seriously consider adopting a digital collaboration intranet solution. As one of our clients … Continue reading

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How to setup Gmail as SMTP Relay Server in SharePoint?

Emails are one of the important functionalities of SharePoint. Often when we create our own development environment we have to create our own SMTP server or rely on our company’s SMTP server (which may not be accessible outside company’s firewall). … Continue reading

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