Erwin Bierens

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The tag present in the reparse point buffer is invalid

2020-03-17 1 min read OneDrive for Business
I ran into this issue recently where some files and folders were not accessible in using the File Explorer, command prompt or even PowerShell. When trying to open / rename or delete the folder the following error pops up: The tag present in the reparse point buffer is invalid The files / folders were located in OneDrive for Business and enabled for the on-demand feature. Based on saome other blogs, those files / folders are junction and got in a bad state. Continue reading

OneDrive For Business/SharePoint Sites Trouble shooting

2015-11-18 2 min read OneDrive Sharepoint Erwin Bierens
OneDrive For Business/SharePoint Sites Trouble shooting Syncing problems with Office 365 SharePoint sites – sometimes they’re easy to resolve and sometimes they are very difficult, tedious and nearly impossible to resolve (unless you are very well acquainted with SharePoint-speak and have some pretty deep networking/IT/Microsoft knowledge). This is the story of how I resolved a tough (for me), syncing issue with O365 SharePoint sites. Problem The problem: client said some of their SharePoint sites would not finish syncing. Continue reading