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SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Updates Mismatch
We ran into an issue this week in which the SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Updates installed on the servers did not match what the SharePoint farm thought it was. We had the March 2013 Cumulative Update...
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2017 – Drawing 1: “January 2nd”
My son and I decided to have a little drawing challenge where we pick a topic and spend 45-60 minutes drawing something separately from each other and then comparing the results. We are going to...
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SharePoint: Cannot complete this action. The URL is invalid. It may refer to...
After we recently upgraded our SharePoint environment we had a few pages that would throw the error whenever we attempted to check it in or discard checkout: “Cannot complete this action. The URL...
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PowerShell to cancel all SharePoint solution deployments
The following PowerShell script will cancel all solutions that are waiting to be deployed without having to go to each one and cancel it: Get-SPTimerJob | ? {$_.Name -like "Solution-Deployment*" } | %...
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SharePoint 2013 Upgrade-SPSite Only Doing One at a Time
Just a word of caution if you are upgrading site collections in SharePoint 2013. Many examples will show you the following PowerShell command if you want to upgrade all your site collections:...
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SharePoint 2013 Edit vs. Contribute Solution
I recently wrote an article about how Microsoft added a new permission level called Edit that allows people to modify more things than the old contribute permission level. The solution is simple –...
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SharePoint 2013 Document Libraries Missing View Selectors and Search Box...
This is probably the most major problem we ran into during our upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 using the Content Database Attach method. We spent a great deal of time trying to...
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Query SharePoint Database for Project Server Fields and Content Types
We are in the process of upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 and as part of that upgrade, we are removing Project Server. The problem is that there was many areas where the Project Server...
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SharePoint 2013–Setting Default My Site
I’ve made a couple posts in the past around how to set your Default My Site with SharePoint 2007 by clicking the “Set as Default My Site” button when visiting your My Site. This option does not exist...
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SharePoint 2013 – Get the most out of SharePoint dialog explained
The purpose of this post is to hopefully to add some clarity around the “Get the most out of SharePoint” dialog box that appears when visiting your My Site for the first time. What is the purpose of...
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SharePoint 2013 Edit vs. Contribute – What the hell happened?
Today I discovered an interesting change to the security model in SharePoint 2013. Create a new team site with the three (3) default groups: Visitor, Members, and Owners. Without observing this too...
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SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Updates Mismatch
We ran into an issue this week in which the SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Updates installed on the servers did not match what the SharePoint farm thought it was. We had the March 2013 Cumulative Update...
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Solved: Surface RT Battery Issue
Ever since upgrading from Windows RT 8.1 Preview to Windows 8.1 released, I’ve been experiencing horrendous battery life on my Surface RT. I’d use it for 5 minutes, set it down, and then the next day...
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Nelson Mandela: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
1918 – 2013 I was born in South Africa and spent most of my childhood there until 1992 when my parents moved our family to the United States. With the recent passing of Nelson Mandela I’ve had many...
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SSRS and Permissions granted to user are insufficient for performing this...
If you are running SharePoint 2013 and SSRS 2012 in SharePoint integration mode and you attempt to do anything related to SSRS such as Editing Data Source, you might receive the following error: The...
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Claims / Domain Users via Object Model Cautions
SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 have moved over to claims based authentication hast he recommended authentication method. If you do any programming against the object model here are a few things...
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SharePoint Explorer View Does Not Open via Action Menu
I ran across an issue in our organization a few weeks ago involving Explorer View in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. The user stated that when they clicked on Explorer View from the View dropdown...
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Supported High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for SharePoint 2013...
Microsoft has documented the supported options for HA and DR for SharePoint 2013 databases (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj841106.aspx) but did not have it in a format that was easy to...
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Using SQL to find declarative SharePoint Designer Workflows
Upgrading your SharePoint environment? Need to find declarative workflows through all your content databases for analysis and testing purposes during the upgrade? The following SQL query can be run...
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STSADM Import and Object reference not set to an instance of an object
If you ever try to import a site using STSADM –o import within SharePoint and you receive the following error message it could be caused by permissions. However, I have come across this issue when...
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