As SharePoint grows and morphs and becomes your information beast, it sometimes feels like it slows down. This is usually typical in implementations where the proper optimizations were not applied early on. It's okay, it's still possible to recover and improve some of your SharePoint's loss of performance. Disclaimer Performance can be significantly degraded by... Continue Reading →
My favorite, most used app of all time…
Every once in a while I come across an app that really rocks. The more I use this app the more I love it, and find new ways of using it. This app is Evernote. If you're not familiar with Evernote, it's a note taking application with which you can store notes and access them... Continue Reading →
FAST Search isn’t 100% with Claims Based Authentication
If you have tried to configure FAST search for SharePoint with a site using CBA and/or kerberos, you probably noticed that the thumbnail images won't appear. Apparently a known issue: From MSDN forum post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/2cf51010-7845-47bb-adcf-a009abcfcbb4/ Your reported issue is a known limitation in the current version of FAST Search for SharePoint, main reason being kerberos /... Continue Reading →
How I got into SharePoint
This is a cross post from http://sp365.co.uk/2011/10/how-i-got-into-sharepoint-david-lozzi/. How long have you been using SharePoint?: 8 years What’s your current role: SharePoint Consultant Your Story: I started with SharePoint 2.0, WSS2, when a customer knew of its functionality and said “I want that”. I created a basic case management list, a calendar and a task list. I instantly... Continue Reading →
Giving mobile users the same experience in SharePoint 2010
In most cases, when I design and build a custom branded solution for a SharePoint site, the customer wants the site to render the same for mobile devices. Instead, SharePoint redirects the user to a different layout. This request is quite common across the world wide web. Most sites you visit on your computer will... Continue Reading →
Can’t log into SharePoint from the console?
This is an issue I'm seeing a little too often on SharePoint installs. Trying to access a site that is hosted on the same server will prompt for login credentials 3 times then display Page Cannot be Found. From what I've gathered it's a loopback check issue. I don't know all the technical issues behind... Continue Reading →
Managing SharePoint Sites Suck?
I've discovered that most complaints about SharePoint are from the self-imposed or top-down-imposed SharePoint administrators who are stuck with managing SharePoint sites. I do feel sorry for you guys, you didn't ask for it, or even if you did you probably thought it was suppose to be easier. In most cases, SharePoint was slapped together... Continue Reading →
A poem about SharePoint
Like a nice cold beer that fills our cup We hope that Sharepoint will stay up Our search will work, it will be great Else version 3 you will also hate. The info is there, it is all so handy If this one fails, we’ll all blame Andy As shared by a... Continue Reading →
Country List for Field Defs in SharePoint
Below is a country list for use in a field definition for SharePoint. Enjoy! <CHOICES> <CHOICE>Afghanistan</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Algeria</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Andorra</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Angola</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Antigua and Barbuda</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Argentina</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Armenia</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Australia</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Austria</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Azerbaijan</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bahamas, The</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bahrain</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bangladesh</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Barbados</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Belarus</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Belgium</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Belize</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Benin</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bhutan</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bolivia</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bosnia and Herzegovina</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Botswana</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Brazil</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Brunei</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Bulgaria</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Burkina Faso</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Burma</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Burundi</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Cambodia</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Cameroon</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Canada </CHOICE> <CHOICE>Cape Verde... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Form cannot be rendered
The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator. If you're getting this error, chances are you haven't added the state service. To add the state service, you need to run some PowerShell commands, I created a small... Continue Reading →
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