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View ArticleStupid attachments in Sharepoint, adding email attachments
You would think taking attachments from a Sharepoint list and adding them to a mail message would be easy. Well, not that easy. They make you jump through hoops and stream the attachment with the...
View ArticleHow to find which version of SharePoint 2010 is installed
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff721969.aspx Go to the registry key: Regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -SOFTWARE-MICROSOFT SHARED TOOLS-Web Server Extensions – 14.0 WSS-Installed...
View ArticleSharePoint Error in Visual Studio Debugging a workflow: Operation aborted...
Leave it to Microsoft to break every SharePoint Dev server in the world in one fell swoop. When you go to debug a workflow from Visual Studio 2008, it builds fine, but on deploy, it fails while trying...
View ArticleMigrate Alerts from old SharePoint url to new SharePoint url
Here’s a handy powershell script to migrate all alert url’s. Problem: When you perform a content database migration to a new SharePoint farm with a different url, the alerts will not fire as the...
View ArticleCreating a WCF service on a SharePoint 2010 server in Visual Studio 2010 and...
If you get the “Type cannot be found” error after installing your WCF service, go to the section about unloading your project below. Here are the main steps to creating a WCF service and installing it...
View ArticlePowershell script to change Sharepoint Information Policy for large document...
Ran into an issue on a SP2010 farm that had over a million documents in a document library with a hundred thousand folders. Yes, lots of data, but not a bad practice in this case as it was tied to...
View ArticleAccounting for Site / Subsite regional time zone settings
Often times, you will have custom web parts or code that write date values back to lists. In many cases, time zone settings are different across an organization and using DateTime.Now is generally not...
View ArticleCleaner List View Boxed style using jQuery
I’m sure we’ve all customized Lists in SharePoint to create different types of views. While most of the Styles to choose from aren’t always practical, the Boxed view is an interesting view because it...
View ArticleAdding bootstrap apps inside a Page Viewer Webpart
Problem: Adding a bootstrap app inside a page viewer web part in SP2010 causes the formatting to be messed up. Reason: SP 2010 does not have the right compatibility mode required on the master page....
View ArticleDatasheet View error and solution: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet...
Error message: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: – A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed. – Your...
View ArticleCSOM SharePoint Online error: The server does not allow messages larger than...
If you get the following error with CSOM while trying to upload documents to SharePoint Online: The server does not allow messages larger than 2097152 bytes The reason is that CSOM limits SharePoint...
View ArticleUsing Sharegate to copy an entire site collection in Office 365 with a new...
When using Sharegate to copy an entire site collection in Office 365 do the following: Source- your 365 site collection Destination – use the admin site URL, i.e. https://-admin.sharepoint.com Select...
View ArticleSP 2010 User Profile Synchronization service stuck on starting
Symptoms: SP 2010 User Profile Synchronization service stuck on starting, FIM Synchronization service cannot be started manually (you should not start them manually anyways, but use Central Admin and...
View ArticleCleaning the cache on SharePoint 2010 servers
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jamesway/2011/05/23/sharepoint-2010-clearing-the-configuration-cache/ There were many common issues that could occur in WSS v3 and MOSS that would require you to clear...
View ArticleM365 Conference Las Vegas December 2022
What a great conference! It was interesting to see conferences coming back to the MGM Grand. It looks like they combined 3 conferences together at once, Dev Intersections, M365, and AI. Lots of...
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