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Come along with me on a small adventure into the world of free SharePoint. Yes, free! SharePoint Foundation 2013 is technically free (well, included in your existing Windows licenses) and can do a whole lot for you without needing to spend significant amounts of money on Server editions. I am going to walk through a mini-series... Continue Reading →
Last night I had to great privilege to share why I think you shouldn't upgrade to SharePoint 2013 at the Boston SharePoint User Group. No, I'm not an anti-Microsoft guy, I love SharePoint, especially 2013. I wanted to walk through what it's going to take to upgrade, all of the costs (infrastructure, customizations, training, etc)... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Knoots for suggesting the idea for this post, from a comment on Using PowerShell to play with SharePoint Items.Using PowerShell, we're going to walk through handling a Choice field in a list. Specifically, this is a calendar list using the Category field. This may come in handy if you want to automate changing... Continue Reading →
SharePoint has an alternative method for accessing it's files, and that is via a web standard called Web DAV. This connection type has been around a long time, and is supported by the web server. This connection type allows other applications, in my case GoodReader, to connect to SharePoint and access folders and files directly.... Continue Reading →
I just discovered a little trick for easing the process of reading and reviewing the SharePoint logs, so I thought I'd share. Open a SharePoint log and you get an incredibly large file with so much info, especially if your logging is set to verbose. As I develop and I receive generic errors, I need... Continue Reading →
Let's say you have a sweet web part, it might be something cool with JavaScript, jQuery, or SPServices, a simple weather web part, a data view web part, or an image. Whatever you made (with some exception, keep reading), you can export your web part and copy it over to another page or site within... Continue Reading →
If you didn't know, SharePoint libraries can be treated like folders and files you'd use on your local computer. To do so, browse to the library in Internet Explorer (not supported in other browsers), you can click Open with Explorer in the ribbon. This button, from a Windows XP/Vista/7 machine in most cases will open... Continue Reading →
I was handed a SharePoint 2010 farm with some weird issues going on, specifically around PowerPivot. First thing I checked was the status of any updates. Sure enough, there was an upgrade available (as seen in Central Admin > Manage Servers in this Farm). My continual troubleshooting of PowerPivot is in this other post. I... Continue Reading →
I recently had a battle with a SharePoint 2010 farm and PowerPivot. Customer reported "weird things are going on", and that was an understatement. This blog post is a transcript of the errors and what I did to resolve them. I hope this helps someone else in the future. First off, I checked the server's... Continue Reading →
This post was originally posted on SharePoint 365, which has since been retired. SharePoint 2007 had this great little link when you were viewing permissions and groups called All People. This would give you a full list of all people who have logged into your site collection, including any sub sites. This was a fast... Continue Reading →
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