Takeaways from SharePoint 2012 so far
I’m in the middle of day 2 of the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas and there is a ton of new features that have been introduced so far. Things that have grabbed my attention the most: File drag and...
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This is a neat little trick if you are coding a visual web part for SharePoint. When you catch exceptions, it’s nice to be able to show the exception details to admin users, while giving your regular...
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SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites error – Workaround
While setting up our new intranet I hit an issue deploying SharePoint 2013 prerequisites on our Windows Server 2012 VM. The error stated “unable to install application server role” and linked to the...
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Out of the box document generation in SharePoint
From time to time I’ve seen people asking how to get SharePoint to generate documents for them. Obviously there are a lot of 3rd party products out there that will do this for you, but I wanted to show...
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Troubleshooting SharePoint 2013 upgrade issue “Content database cannot be...
I’m in the middle of a large upgrade project for a client. They are currently live on SharePoint Enterprise 2007 and are upgrading to SharePoint 2013. The process is very well documented via Technet...
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Updating your SharePoint Newsfeed from Lync 2013
If you are not familiar with the SharePoint 2013 Newsfeed, it allows your SharePoint users to keep their team up to date on what is going on and what they are working on. It is a great tool for...
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Changing SharePoint to use a SQL Availability Group Listener
I had an interesting issue crop up from a client this week. They were testing failover of their High Availability cluster and for some reason SharePoint wasn’t working after failover. It turns out that...
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How is a hand sanitizer dispenser like SharePoint?
I’ve just been to my local grocery store and as I was leaving I spotted a hand sanitizer dispenser hanging on a wall accompanied by those ominous “wash your hands or else!” signs. Of course being the...
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Items missing from Search Results in SharePoint 2013
We’ve been pretty busy the last few months putting the finishing touches on a new SharePoint 2013 Intranet for a client. One of the features we have been asked to implement is a detailed search page...
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Azure VM Issue–The Local Security Authority Cannot Be Contacted
I’ve been running my SharePoint dev environments in the Cloud lately. It makes a lot of sense to me, I need AD, SQL and SharePoint and I find that for less than $5 a day I can run those easily as AZURE...
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