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Today my Office 365 account is behaving strangely. Yesterday I was able to activate my wsp solution using activate button from the ribbon in solutions gallery.

Today I can not activate my wsp solution. It gives blank in popup dialog box. (As shown in below image)

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When I click activate button, nothing happens.

Note: My user has full rights and it is site collection administrator.

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  • Sandboxed solutions containing code has been depricated in SharePoint Online for some time now, is this such a solution? If so, MS might have started enforcing the no-code-policy fully
    – Robert Lindgren
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 5:45
  • Yes, it's containing my event receivers in my solutions. Then how would I attach my event receivers to my list?
    – Dikesh Gandhi
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 5:46
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    That's probably the problem then! In SharePoint Online you need to use the add-in model, more precisely a provider hosted add-in with remote event receivers in this scenario
    – Robert Lindgren
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 5:47
  • Have you tried by activate it using SharePoint Online Management Shell ?or through code/console application enter link description here
    – utkarsh
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 5:53
  • Thanks for your quick reply. As I've searched on google but can not get official announcement by Microsoft for enforcing the no-code-policy. Can you do one favor to provide me that link?
    – Dikesh Gandhi
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 5:55

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There has been an outage listed in the admin portal for most of the week regarding sandboxed solutions:

SP73009 - Custom Solutions and Workflows - Service degradation Service degradation - Jul 27, 2016 3:50 PM

Current Status: We're continuing to perform a detailed analysis of the issue to determine the next steps.

User Impact: Users may be unable to activate or use SharePoint Online Sandbox Solutions. This may include event receivers, workflows, web parts, feature receivers, and InfoPath forms.

Scope of Impact: A few customers have reported this issue, and our monitoring indicates that any user attempting to activate or use this feature will be affected.

Start Time: Friday, July 22, 2016, at 11:30 PM UTC

Next Update by: Friday, July 29, 2016, at 8:00 PM UTC

Upon further updates, it appears this is intentional and they are finally making good on their statement from 2014. http://ow.ly/zeMz302MKN1.

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  • Oh, exiting! Could they just not stop supporting them for good this ime ;)
    – Robert Lindgren
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 13:11
  • Thanks Eric. I was so stupid that forgot to check service maintenance in admin side. I got the exactly same issue that mentioned by you above ;-)
    – Dikesh Gandhi
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 14:13
  • Happy to heard that there is some hope for sandbox solutions...😊
    – Dikesh Gandhi
    Commented Jul 29, 2016 at 14:17
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    Look here dev.office.com/blogs/…
    – Robert Lindgren
    Commented Aug 1, 2016 at 8:18
  • Yep just saw that tweet, updates answer.
    – Eric Alexander
    Commented Aug 1, 2016 at 10:04
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Code in sandboxed solution has been depricated by Microsoft in SharePoint Online for some time now, see Deprication of custom code in sandboxed solutions.

So that is the most possible reason for what you are experiencing.

They are now starting to enforce the no-code-policy, here is new information backing up this statement: Removing code based sandbox solutions in SharePoint Online

What you should do is to convert your sandboxed solution to an add-in, most likely a provider-hosted add-in.

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As per the Microsoft, as shown in the Admin > Service Health currently SharePoint Online service is degraded. Next Update from Microsoft will be on Monday, August 1, 2016, at 8:00 PM UTC.

Check the service health.

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