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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 – 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–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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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 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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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 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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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: 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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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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