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Power BI
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Power Apps
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Power Apps
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Migration
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Ensuring data accuracy and compliance during content migrations is paramount. As organizations move from legacy systems to modern platforms, maintaining…
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Compliance Purview
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Power BI
Enhance Power BI Reports – Implement Dynamic Colors…
Embark on a journey to enhance your Power BI reports with dynamic color adjustments based on selected measures through our…
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Unlocking Automation – Trigger a Cloud Flow from…
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SharePoint
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SPFx developers must grasp the layout of SharePoint Framework. This means understanding the different types of files included and what…
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SharePoint
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Customizing SharePoint online forms is typically done using SPFx or Power Apps. However, this blog will demonstrate an alternative approach…
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SharePoint Migration
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Data Migration Best Practices for 2024 As we move forward through 2024, the landscape of data migration has transformed dramatically,…
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Power Automate
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Power Pages
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Power Pages
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Power Pages
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This guide provides comprehensive insights into editing forms within the Power Pages environment. Through a structured series of steps, users…
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Power Automate
Using SharePoint Filter Queries in Power Automate: A…
The SharePoint Filter Query is a powerful feature that allows users to refine and manipulate data within their Power Automate…
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Power Apps
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Microsoft
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A records management system, also known as records and information management, is a solution for organizations to manage regulatory, legal,…
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Microsoft
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Microsoft
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With cyber threats evolving constantly, IT teams face immense pressure to safeguard data from malware, phishing, and insider threats. Microsoft’s…
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Microsoft
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Microsoft
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Microsoft
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In today’s digital age, businesses generate massive amounts of data daily, stored across emails, documents, chat logs, and more. But…
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Office 365
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In today’s digital landscape, legal and compliance teams are constantly battling the ever-growing tide of electronic data. Complex investigations and…
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Microsoft
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Power Pages
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This tutorial explains advanced techniques for manipulating forms, enabling users to seamlessly integrate, create, modify, and interpret forms within web…
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Copilot
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Power Automate, a service by Microsoft, presents a valuable feature that facilitates the refreshing of datasets utilized in Power BI…
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Power Apps
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SharePoint Online
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When automating tasks in Microsoft 365, it’s best to avoid logon IDs and passwords. The best practice is to use…
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In the dynamic landscape of data analytics and business intelligence, the seamless integration between Power BI and Excel has become…
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Power Automate
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In Microsoft’s Power Automate, crafting dynamic and personalized Word documents through templates has become a streamlined process. Let’s start the…
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This solution is used to display images of news banner images in Outlook desktop when sending news communication over email.…
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Enterprise Solutions
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Microsoft
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Beyond safeguarding documents and emails, sensitivity labels offer protection for content within various containers like Microsoft Teams sites, Microsoft 365…
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Copilot
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What is Power Automate Copilot? Microsoft’s Power Automate AI Copilot is a solution designed to streamline complex tasks and procedures.…
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Intranet Modernization
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KWIZ and ProvisionPoint, operating as a unified force and recognized as a distinguished provider of Microsoft SharePoint governance and technology solutions, have…
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Power Pages
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Introduction Power Pages are like a toolbox for making websites that help businesses grow. With Power Pages, we create websites…
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Copilot Studio, a part of the Microsoft Power Platform, is composed of several key components that work together to facilitate…
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Copilot
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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance customer interactions and streamline processes. One technology that…
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The ability to efficiently send multiple attachments using power automate via email is crucial. This blog post will guide you through the…
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What is copilot in Microsoft 365? Copilot, an AI-powered development assistance tool, is integrated into Power Apps, enabling app makers…
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SharePoint Migration
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Content migration emerges as a formidable challenge in the intricate world of digital transformation. The seamless transition of vital information…
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Power Automate
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In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where adaptability and efficiency are paramount, customization has emerged as a pivotal strategy to…
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Power Automate
Approvals and Notifications: Streamlining Business Processes with Power…
Efficiency and productivity are critical metrics in today’s fast-paced business environment. Manual processes can often hinder progress and lead to…
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Power BI
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The power of making informed decisions isn’t just advantageous; it’s a prerequisite for success. Organizations across the spectrum are recognizing…
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Power Automate
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Introduction: Efficiency and productivity reign supreme in today’s rapidly changing business landscape. However, manual tasks and intricate processes often act…
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SharePoint
SharePoint for Remote Work: Enabling Collaboration and Productivity…
The world of work has undergone a significant transformation, with remote work becoming increasingly prevalent. The need for robust collaboration…
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Microsoft
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In this data-driven era, organizations face a significant challenge – managing and safeguarding their vast and diverse data assets while…
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SharePoint
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Summary In this blog post, I share the steps for creating the custom template for any SharePoint Online site Now…
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SharePoint Migration
Confluence to SharePoint Migration – Step by Step…
As businesses grow, the need to store, secure, and manage crucial information becomes increasingly important. Microsoft SharePoint is a cloud-based…
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SharePoint
New SharePoint Feature: External File Requests
SharePoint External File Requests With SharePoint, one can now request external files quickly and easily. The feature initially surfaced first…
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SharePoint
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We faced a client challenge for replicating Salesforce content, metadata and objects into SharePoint in real-time, and further, replicate the…
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Microsoft
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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a relatively new solution that helps organizations manage their compliance needs across multiple cloud platforms…
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Power Automate
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Introduction: While SharePoint Online is a powerful collaboration and content management tool, manual tasks can often take up valuable time and resources.…
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Intranet Modernization
Reality Tech Announces Partnership with Mozzaik365 to Enhance…
New York, USA (April 2023): Reality Tech, an award-winning Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint services and solution provider, has announced its…
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Microsoft Teams
Top Features and Benefits of SharePoint Online for…
Introduction: SharePoint Online is a powerful collaboration and teamwork platform offering a range of features and benefits to improve productivity, communication,…
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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Best Practices for SharePoint Online Governance and User…
SharePoint Online is a powerful collaboration platform that can help organizations streamline workflows, improve communication, manage documents and enhance productivity. However,…
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Intranet Modernization
Microsoft Viva: A Guide to Enhancing the Employee…
Introduction: Microsoft Viva is the latest offering from Microsoft, aimed at revolutionizing how we work and enhancing the employee experience.…
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Intranet Modernization
Microsoft Power Platforms – Introduction, Products, Benefits &…
Introduction Businesses today require a wide range of technologies and tools to manage business processes, including approvals, reviews, filings, workflows,…
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Power BI
Power BI’s Interactive Dashboard – Development, Features &…
Introduction: Power BI is a business intelligence service provided by Microsoft that allows users to connect to various data sources,…
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SharePoint Migration
What Are the Difficulties You Are Facing While…
Often businesses seek to streamline their core business operations for enhanced workforce efficiency that contribute towards better business decisions, stronger…
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Office 365
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Why Migrate Email to Office 365 The email platform you use in your enterprise is key to a consolidated and…
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SharePoint
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There are many reasons to fully migrate to Office 365. Before undertaking any project, it’s important to define the major…
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SharePoint Migration
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Even though your company needs the best and cutting-edge SharePoint collaboration technology, are you still using SharePoint 2016 or earlier?…
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SharePoint
How To Choose the Right SharePoint Services Firm…
Since its introduction, SharePoint and now Office 365 more broadly have become an industry standard platform delivering collaboration capabilities for…
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Power Apps
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Repeating controls functionality in PowerApps can be achieved using Gallery Control of PowerApps. Repeating control functionality can be useful in…
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Power Apps
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Power Apps premium license is required only if your application utilizes some of the premium features. If not, a Microsoft…
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Office 365
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Microsoft Office could win the award for the most popular document-oriented productivity suite for business and casual users. There are…
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SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online vs On-Premises – Migrate from On-Premises…
Fewer businesses are migrating to on-premises SharePoint as they increasingly switch to cloud-based SharePoint Online/Microsoft 365. The trend is for…
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Globally, businesses are adopting agile methods for creating and implementing their business and IT strategies, and they are also searching…
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SharePoint
7 Key Reasons to Adopt SharePoint Taxonomy for…
A robust and well thought through taxonomy is mandatory when you’re trying to search within an ECM’s (Enterprise Content Management)…
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Project Server and Web Access
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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Essential Tips and Best Practices for SharePoint Security
Most every collaboration Site Owner is probably concerned about security, which is quite understandable. Companies are now all too aware…
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SharePoint
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Managing a large volume of documents in an enterprise can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone. For document management to be…
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A set of web pages with a single domain name representing your business is one way to define a business…
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SharePoint
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Microsoft SharePoint has been the best collaborative and content management solution for literally decades. When Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2013,…
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SharePoint
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SharePoint
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Microsoft Teams
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Power Automate
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Power Automate
Generate a PDF from Microsoft Automate Method –…
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SharePoint Migration
How to Migrate File Server to SharePoint Online…
Switching to SharePoint entails more than simply transferring all of your data to a cloud server: it’s a completely new…
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SharePoint Migration
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SharePoint was first released as a portal and collaboration platform as SharePoint 2001. It has gradually evolved to cover a…
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Financial Automation
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Enterprise Solutions
SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management – Why Should…
Do You Know? 60% of the global data worth 175 zettabytes will be generated and managed by enterprises by 2025,…
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Document Management System
Why You Should Use SharePoint for Document Management…
SharePoint offers Document Management System (DMS) capabilities to streamline the document lifecycle from creation to archiving and offers the following…
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OneDrive
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Teamwork is the backbone of any successful organization, and effective collaboration is the key. Collaboration is not easy when teams…
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OneDrive
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SharePoint
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Microsoft 365 SharePoint is a web-based platform that can be used by organizations to manage collaboration effectively. SharePoint also provides…
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Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft 365 cloud technology tools have emerged as one of the best platforms for organizations and enterprises to work in…
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SharePoint Administration
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Office 365
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Data is the primary asset for every organization and a data loss can become very costly for respected enterprises. The…
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Enterprise Solutions
Why Is Custom WordPress Website The Most Trending…
WordPress as a framework offers you the opportunity to distinguish your business from the competition with a very broad set…
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Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence Solution: What It Is and Why…
Business intelligence (BI) consolidates data to render valuable insights in a user-friendly manner through dashboards, reports, graphs, and charts. This…
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Management
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Data Analytics and Reporting
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When Excel writes a file in the DIF format, SAS is unable to read the file. Here’s a valid DIF…
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Powershell
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Powershell
Restore SharePoint document timestamp and author from feedfile
Often an administrator during maintenance or checking in a document for a user, “stomps” on a timestamp and who edited…
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Powershell
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A common business process to automate is moving files from an FTP server. To copy the files from an FTP…
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Infopath
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SP2013
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I had a situation when my workflows went to “Suspended” after a few minutes. I noticed this occured when I…
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Powershell
How to Download All Attachments for All Tasks…
Downloading all attachments for a SharePoint task list Tasks can have attachments. In fact, they can have multiple attachments. However,…
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Navigation
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URL to a Location Inside a PDF It turns out, there is no way to specify a URL to a…
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Architecture
Solution for SharePoint incompatibility with Chrome
Solution for SharePoint in compatibility with Chrome There have been a number of issues relating to how SharePoint behaves within…
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Architecture
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Designing for Document Management Excellence There’s a dramatic difference between the Ordinary and the Extraordinary. Here is how to design…
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Architecture
How To Migrate Documents Into SharePoint
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Architecture
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Upgrading Release Candidate is an update to SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 and can be installed over Beta 2, so…
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Powershell
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How to set a site collection as not read-only Is your site collection read-only? It is critical to be able…
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Enterprise Solutions
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SQL Server reporting comes to life when SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) runs in SharePoint integrated mode Report deployment is a…
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C#
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How to deploy multiple Office Solutions in a single setup After creation of all your MS-Office solutions, they can be…
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MS-Office
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Process for creating MS Office Add-In from Visual Studio IDE Step 1: To start constructing an Office add-in, we are…
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SharePoint
Set an Email alert for Document library or…
In this post, I will explain how to add an alert on a document library or list to get notified…
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Powershell
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Working with web parts programmatically across pages is awkward but possible in PowerShell. Let’s start by generating a report of…
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Powershell
Changing the page for a SharePoint Library View
Views are easily created by end users, and can be created through automation. I recently had to change the underlying…
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Powershell
Migrating Documents via SFTP
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Workflow
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Recently I encountered an issue trying to publish SP2013 workflows. Every attempt to save the workflow gave an odd error…
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Search
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It is useful to quickly locate the SharePoint 2013 search index on a farm. For example, it’s useful to exclude…
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Lls
Fixing Repeated Logon Prompts in SharePoint
There’s nothing that annoys users as much as repeated logon prompts. Recently a SharePoint 2013 farm was prompting all users…
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Powershell
Crisply report on script duration
While scripts can get written in a jiffy, it’s best to make them usable and functional as a foundation for…
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Central Administration
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Data Analytics and Reporting
Use of Dynamic SQL for SSIS Data Sources
Quite a set of adventures in SSIS-land today. It seems using parameters on SQL Server Integration Services data sources can…
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Powershell
Copying folder hierarchy with date filter and elimination…
Ever need to copy a tree of folders? I had to do this only for files older than a specified…
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Powershell
Extracting to a CSV the list of files…
It’s easy to extract the set of files in all folders, here’s how using PowerShell: $Files = Get-ChildItem "C:ChooseAnyFolder" -Recurse…
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Ssrs
Using URL Parameters for an SSRS Report in…
SSRS running in SharePoint integrated mode provides a great experience, but how can one pass in parameters to such a…
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Powershell
Filtering out lists that are not SharePoint libraries
The best way to filter out SharePoint lists when iterating the collection of lists is by Template ID. However it’s…
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Powershell
Granting myself site collection admin access
Sometimes one needs to grant themselves site collection admin access, here’s two kinds of site collection admin status assignments: $meStr…
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Powershell
Uploading pictures into ActiveDirectory remotely via PowerShell
One can upload pictures into PowerShell remotely. A few requirements:1. Install RSAT; ; that’s adding the Feature in Computer Management2.…
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Content types
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when creating Content Types in SharePoint, it’s nice to script the process, for planning and repeatability. Here’s a nifty routine…
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Powershell
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In just a few lines, one can generate a CSV of all files and their attributes including size and timestamp.…
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Powershell
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URLs in SharePoint are often filled with “%20” in place of blanks, and other substitutions. However, there are times when…
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SharePoint Migration
Fixing taxonomy terms after a Metalogix Migration
When migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 using the Metalogix Content Matrix 7.0.0.1 migration tool, a taxonomy issue was encountered.…
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SharePoint Development Solutions
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Working with IE11, Web Part pages could not be edited in the browser. Web parts could not be selected during…
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Vba
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I recently encountered an issue when a user within a file-select popup navigated to SharePoint via an http: reference, causing…
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Powershell
PowerGUI vs. PowerShell ISE
Boy, have I become dependent on PowerGUI for PowerShell scripting? I’ve recently been compelled to use the ISE that comes…
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Architecture
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SharePoint is a great platform for application development. However there exist some challenges that need to be kept in mind…
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Powershell
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Metadata navigation offers a quite clever way to navigate documents within a library. It cuts across folders, and allows drill-in…
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Security and Compliance
Checking for a specific permission for a specific…
While the UI allows one to easily check permissions for a given user, how can one do that iteratively? Here’s…
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C#
Enhancing SharePoint breadcrumbs when navigating deeply nested folders
I had an interesting challenge to improve breadcrumbs in navigating a deeply folder nested library. The nice breadcrumb dropdown icon…
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SharePoint Development Solutions
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Converting SQL for embedded use within VBA After creating and testing SQL to embed within a VB or VBA application,…
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Architecture
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Jump-starting a multi-server SharePoint installation After a multiple server SharePoint install, I noticed some issues with SharePoint, including User Profile…
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Powershell
Fixing Checked Out Files
Fixing Checked Out Files I ran into a challenge this evening with a monstrously large library filled with 5,000+ folders…
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Data Analytics and Reporting
Custom SQL Reporting in MS-Project Server 2013
Custom SQL Reporting in MS-Project Server 2013 It is easy to navigate the database schema in MS-Project Server to generate…
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Search
Running SharePoint 2013 search within a limited RAM…
Running SharePoint 2013 search with limited RAM SharePoint 2013 search is very powerful, however if you have limited server resources,…
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C#
The SharePoint internals behind an Append text field
SharePoint internals of the Append text field In configuring a SharePoint field, there’s an option to “Append Changes to Existing…
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MS-Office
Working around the SharePoint document parser for Office…
Working around the SharePoint document parser This blog entry is dedicated to a solution for Cristina, a long suffering user…
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Project Server and Web Access
Configuring MS-Project Server 2013 in CloudShare
Configuring MS-Project Server 2013 in CloudShare I’m a huge fan of CloudShare. You get quick access to great template environments…
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Sql
Diagnosing and rectifying SQL Transaction Log Growth
Diagnosing and rectifying SQL Transaction Log Growth Ever wonder why your transaction logs can grow out of control? First place…
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Powershell
Updating Master Pages across SharePoint Site Collections
Updating Master Pages across SharePoint Site Collections in your farm You can use PowerShell to change the Master Page across…
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Business Intelligence
PowerPivot rollups of the previous slicer period using…
SQL Data Tools is great in SQL 2012, but I had a challenge to show rollups as separate measures for…
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Powershell
How to delete all SharePoint webs in a…
Pretty useful and simple to delete all webs in a site collection except the root web. This worked for me,…
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Powershell
Smoothly activating a Feature across SharePoint Site Collections
It’s useful to be able to activate features across site collections. This two line script grabs the desired feature, then…
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Powershell
Assigning an Application Pool to a SharePoint Web…
the easy/obvious way is the wrong way. The trick is to reassign the app pool to the web app so…
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SharePoint
WebDAV crashes using MS-Office and SharePoint with Win7
There is a issue in SharePoint 2010 with WebDAV with Windows 7. Just making my readers aware, in case other…
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Powershell
Programmatically Targeting Audiences for Audience Enabled Libraries in…
Overview Targeting an audience for a given document is a great capability within SharePoint. There’s a simple Document Library setting…
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Excel Services
Getting PowerPivot working in SharePoint
PowerPivot with SharePoint Diagnostics There are a lot of moving parts to PowerPivot. Here are some common causes of PowerPivot…
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Powershell
How to write a SharePoint File to disk
It is quite common, there is a file in SharePoint, and you want to see it written to a local…
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Book Review
Great new book on SharePoint Disaster Recovery
There’s a great new book on SharePoint Disaster Recovery. Given I wrote a chapter, I’m a bit biased 🙂https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/microsoft-sharepoint-2013-disaster-recovery-guide Disaster…
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Powershell
Getting the absolute URL for a SharePoint SPItem
Getting the fully encoded absolute URL Most properties for an SPFile and SPItem only give part of the URL. To…
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Fast Search
Report on all Search Site references across SharePoint…
I got an interesting request recently to find all search centers configured for all Site Collections. I thought I would…
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Powershell
Generating alternate colors in an email HTML table…
Generating rich text emails with PowerShell In this post: Generating automatic emails with embedded-reports and link to uploaded csvwe explored sending…
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Architecture
Inconsistent SharePoint timestamps with WebDAV
There are situations when moving documents using Explorer mode can retain the correct “Modified” timestamp in the browser, yet show…
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Architecture
SharePoint Database Naming
The primary naming convention to put in place is the Database Naming standard. By default, SharePoint puts a GUID at…
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Architecture
Designing your SharePoint content hierarchy
Key SharePoint Limits Microsoft publishes a long list of soft and hard boundaries and limits within SharePoint. These have not…
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Powershell
Limiting Library Version Storage across your SharePoint farm
There are situations where documents are frequently edited. Each edit creates a new version in SharePoint. In SP2010, each version…
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Architecture
Getting your arms around the database sizing of…
SharePoint Database Size Planning In order to manage your SharePoint farm, and especially for planning for backup/recovery you need to…
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Architecture
Stopping and Starting SharePoint
How to safely stop and start SharePoint for a reboot I recommend in the SharePoint Server(s), Start, Run, services.msc:Stop: SharePoint…
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Powershell
How to recover from a malfunctioning SharePoint Master…
Recover from a broken Master Page Last night I had a bit of fun trying to fix a bad Master…
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Powershell
Reporting on SharePoint MySite distribution by Content Database
Reporting on MySite Content Databases Knowing how sites are distributed among Content Databases is key, such as knowing which Content…
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SharePoint
Report on every library in a SharePoint Farm
Report on every library in a SharePoint Farm It is very useful to be able to examine attributes from every…
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Sql
Metadata Warehouse of SharePoint Content
I often write custom reports to be able to analyze huge data from a SharePoint farm. I can ansewr questions…
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SharePoint
SharePoint Admins – How to Recover
Save your hide by restoring a SharePoint farm configuration I had the scare of the week last night. I was…
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Fast Search
A link straight to a SharePoint document’s metadata
Often users want a link direct to a document’s metadata. That’s easily done using this format: ht tp://SharePoint/sites/SiteCol/DemoMajorV2/forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=[x] Here’s a…
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Powershell
Resetting a SharePoint Farm Passphrase
Resetting a SharePoint Farm Passphrase If you don’t have the SharePoint farm passphrase, you can’t join a server to the…
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Powershell
Tuning SharePoint Search Ranking
Tuning SharePoint Search Ranking in the object model SharePoint Search results are returned in order of relevancy, which is determined…
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Powershell
Feature Reporting and Deactivation across a SharePoint Farm
Reporting on features across a SharePoint Farm Before retracting a SharePoint solution, it is best to deactivate the associated feature…
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Fast Search
Reporting on all SharePoint Search Scopes
Search scopes are often created to refine the results returned on SharePont Search. I’ve written this small snippet of PowerShell…
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Navigation
Adjusting Quicklinks Programmatically in SharePoint
Use PowerShell to set Quicklinks Programmatically in SharePoint Wouldn’t it be great to hide all lists of a certain type…
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Fast Search
FAST SharePoint Property Mapping Report
Generating a FAST SharePoint Property Mapping Report In Search, it is not an exageration to say the property mapping is…
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Content types
Removing a stubborn Content Type from a SharePoint…
Removing a Content Type from a SharePoint Library Having a single content type in a library can make a library…
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Content types
Programatically reassigning Content Types in a library
Reassigning Content Types in a library using PowerShell It is useful to be able to change the Content Type for…
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SharePoint
Clearing out all SharePoint document versions for a…
Wiping out all SharePoint document versions for a set of documents Sometimes users create many versions of a document inadvertently.…
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Alerts
Scripting SharePoint logging to ULS and Event Log
It’s easy to dump output to a text file in a script, but for enterprise-class logging, the two standards are…
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Powershell
How to Fix Bad Taxonomy Terms in Sharepoint…
Fixing bad SharePoint taxonomy term references A given document using managed metadata can have a term orphaned from the termset.…
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Powershell
Granting SharePoint Shell Administration access
Granting SharePoint Shell Administration access via PowerShell Enabling a PowerShell user can be as simple as granting local admin rights…
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Powershell
SharePoint Group Management
Managing SharePoint Groups in PowerShell SharePoint Groups are a great mechanism for managing user permissions, however they exist within a…
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Content types
Content Type Syndication tips from the Masters
Content Type Syndication must-know tips Content Type Syndication is a must for enterprise-class structured SharePoint document management systems. There are…
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Infopath
Accessing SharePoint User Profile Service fields within InfoPath
Accessing the SharePoint User Profile Service within InfoPath Accessing User Profile information is quite useful from within InfoPath. This is…
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Powershell
SharePoint Feature Activation Report
SharePoint Active Feature Report There are times that it is useful to know which site collections have a given feature…
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Powershell
Remote Blob Storage Report
When configuring RBS (Remote Blob Storage), we get to select a minimum blob threshold. Setting this offers a tradeoff between…
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Powershell
Report on SharePoint Quota settings across all Site…
SharePoint Quota settings across all Site Collections It is useful to see what the storage maximums are on each site…
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Powershell
View all Crawled Properties for a given SharePoint…
View all Crawled Properties for a SharePoint Document I often need to examine all the properties of a document. This…
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Powershell
Adding one field to a SharePoint View in…
Adding a field every SharePoint View Sometimes one needs to change a SharePoint library view across all libraries and sites.…
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Powershell
Adding a SharePoint View to every library
How to add a SharePoint View to every library Sometimes one has to create a custom view and deploy it…
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Powershell
Save a SharePoint Library as a Site Collection…
Save a SharePoint Library as a Site Collection List Template SharePoint has the capability to create list templates for future…
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Document ids
Propagating legacy Document IDs into SharePoint
Document IDs in SharePoint Document IDs are generated automatically by SharePoint when configured, but what if you have your own…
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Alerts
Generating automatic emails with embedded reports and link…
Generating automatic emails with the embedded content There’s often a need to automate the generation of reports on SharePoint. I…
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Powershell
Quick Inventory of SharePoint Databases
Inventory SharePoint Databases Often I have to quickly analyze SharePoint databases; both Content DBs as well as the full set…
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Event receivers
Reporting on SharePoint Event Receivers
SharePoint Event Receiver Reporting Event Receivers are a very powerful SharePoint construct. Because of timing issues, they can be tricky…
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Powershell
SharePoint Full Farm Site Collection Admin report
Reporting on SharePoint Full Farm Site Collection Admins Site Collection Administrators retain a great deal of power and capability within…
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Performance
Rationalizing SharePoint Storage
SharePoint Storage Management SharePoint storage tends to grow organically, and in an uneven fashion. Periodically it makes sense to take…
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Powershell
Patching SharePoint: Useful Tips
Patching SharePoint In patching SharePoint, prior to the August 2012 CU (wow, that’s a long time ago), patches had to…
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Architecture
Migrating to SharePoint: A rational approach
Migrating to SharePoint What’s the best way to go about migrating to SharePoint? Of course it depends on where documents…
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Sql
SharePoint Timer Job History analysis
Analyzing the SharePoint Timer Job History At times one needs to analyze the timer job history to see what jobs…
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SharePoint
System characteristics of a well performing SharePoint Farm
Characteristics of a well-performing SharePoint Farm Tempdb data files Dedicated disks for the tempdb Tempdb should be placed on RAID…
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Powershell
Quickly determine unique values in a SharePoint field
Report on unique values in a SharePoint field Ever need to know which values are in use for a multi-select…
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Powershell
Accessing an SPItem via full URL
Accessing an SPItem via full encoded URL One of the most common tasks is to access a document; heck isn’t…
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Alerts
Customized scheduled SharePoint Search Alerts in HTML
Customized scheduled SharePoint Search Alerts in HTML Occasionally I get requests for customized notification about documents within a SharePoint farm.…
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Performance
SharePoint Monitoring Metrics
SharePoint Monitoring Metrics I pulled together some useful metrics for monitoring SharePoint environments: Storage Server drive(s) disk space availability (15%…
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Content types
How to delete a hidden library field in…
Deleting a hidden library field in SharePoint Hidden fields do not appear in the user interface when viewing Library settings.…
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Rbs
Setting the Minimum BLOB Storage Size Correctly
How to set the Minimum BLOB Storage Size Setting the minimum storage size for BLOBs is a bit tricky. It…
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Book Review
Book Review: SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio…
Cookbook is a good term for this book. It is an excellent overview of SharePoint programming, with a task focus…
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Content types
Add a Taxonomy Field into Every Site Collection…
Add a Taxonomy Field into Every Site Collection I recently had to add a Taxonomy Site Column into a range…
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Powershell
Creating a View in each Document Library in…
Crate a View in each Library in a Web App My friend Rob Holmes raised an interesting challenge; deploying a…
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Performance
Configuring Blob Cache correctly
Blob Cache For snappy SharePoint performance, one great option to enable is Blob Caching. Make sure to first back up…
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Powershell
AD User group membership not propagating into site…
AD User group membership propagation issue In some rare instances, users may exist within a Site Collection that don’t receive…
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Powershell
Wiping Taxonomy Values
Wiping MMS Taxonomy Values Ever want to wipe out Taxonomy values in a Managed Metadata field in a library? Assigning…
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Search
Search Crawling in SP2013
Search Crawling in SP2013 In SP2010, we have two types of crawls; Full or Incremental Crawl. In a nutshell, your…
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Powershell
When users can’t access a taxonomy
When users cannot access a MMS taxonomy The Managed Metadata Service is great; but what do you do when users…
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Powershell
Send Email From PowerShell
Sending An Email from PowerShell It’s easy to send an email from PowerShell, and it’s really useful for notifying yourself…
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Powershell
Output User Profile Service Colleagues
Output User Profile Service Colleagues SharePoint User Profile Service maintains the set of colleagues associated with each user registered within…
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C#
Extending the Outlook Ribbon programmatically
Extending the Outlook Ribbon The MS-Office ribbon can be extended programmatically. In this article, I add a new tab to…
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Performance
Output Site Collection and storage information
Reporting on Site Collection and storage information Wouldn’t it be nice to have a single report of Site Collections, the…
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Powershell
Copy files in folders from a Document Library…
Copy SharePoint files in folders to disk A common request is extracting all the files within folders in a document…
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Security
Refining People-Picker
Refining The SharePoint People-Picker In SharePoint there are several locations where a set of users is presented in what is…
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Powershell
Gradually reducing the Change Log for a Web…
Safely reducing the Change Log for a Web Application Content Databases by default contain logs of all change events for…
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Xlst
Adding Banding in a CQWP
CQWP Banding using XLST The Content Query Web Part aggregates SharePoint content. Banding can be added by customizing the associated…
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C#
Folder Metadata Web Part
Creating a Folder Metadata Web Part An interesting challenge I faced was programmatically exposing custom folder metadata within a specific…
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Powershell
Adding a web part to a List View
Adding a web part to a List View It’s quite straightforward to add a web part to a specific library…
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Infopath
InfoPath error when runtime dlls are wiped
InfoPath error for runtime DLLs disappearing I had an interesting problem the other day. One of the users of an…
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Content types
Metadata Defaults for Folders
Setting Metadata Defaults for Folders SharePoint Libraries can be configured with metadata defaults for documents added to specific folders. Column…
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Navigation
Set Portal link for navigating above a Site…
Set Portal link for navigating One of the annoyances in SharePoint is that there is no easy way for end…
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Content types
Content Type Summary Report
Content Type Summary Report Sometimes I get challenged with questions as to which fields are used in which Content Types. …
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Powershell
Report on RBS Configuration by Content Database
RBS Configuration reporting by Content Database Here’s a simple script that will report on the RBS configuration across all your…
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Document ids
Structure Document IDs to be unique across Site…
Configure Document IDs to be unique across the farm Document IDs are only guaranteed unique within a single site collection.…
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Powershell
Programatically setting Site Quota Templates
Setting Site Quota Templates using PowerShell Once sites are created, it can be a challenge to change the quota template.…
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Powershell
Automating Creation of Per-Location Views
Automating the Creation of Per-Location Views SharePoint offers the capability of customizing the Views in Folders. This can be done…
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C#
Writing To ULS From Within C#
Writing to ULS From Within C# Event Receivers and Feature Receivers are notoriously hard to debug. Here’s a little gem…
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C#
Taxonomy Internals Deep Dive
The SharePoint Managed Metadata Service centrally manages Taxonomies within SharePoint. More than one service application can exist within a farm.…
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Business connectivity services
Smart Filtering in BCS
Smart Filtering in Business Connectivity Services Business Connectivity Services allows the rapid creation of reference connections to live legacy data…
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Records Management
SharePoint Document IDs
SharePoint Document IDs The SharePoint Document ID Service is a new feature of SharePoint 2010 that offers a number of…
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Security
Item Level Permissions
Item Level Permissions SharePoint has a robust object model supporting security at each level of the farm. Let’s take a…
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Lls
Consolidation of Application Pools
Automated Consolidation of Application Pools SharePoint leverages IIS, and runs within Application Pools. One should recognize up front that there…
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Powershell
Gradual Site Collection Deletion
Gradual Site Collection Deletion I had a mission to achieve overnight; move 28 site collections into a new managed path,…
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Powershell
Reporting on “Anonymous” surveys
Reporting on Anonymous surveys SharePoint enables the creation of anonymous surveys, but how anonymous are they? If you want a…
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Performance
Sync DB Grows Indefinitely
Sync DB is a database that is a part of the User Profile Service related to Active Directory synchronization. Unfortunately…
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Powershell
Solving asynchronous Event Handler update conflicts
Titus makes truly great and unique software for securing SharePoint documents based on metadata. However I ran into a huge…
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Taxonomy
Taxonomy Site Collection internals
People sometimes run into Managed Metadata Taxonomy fields that show hash signs, semi-colons, numbers; what gives? What you are seeing,…
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Lls
Compression In IIS
There’s a relatively obscure setting in IIS that can have a dramatic effect on the performance perceived by SharePoint users. …
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SharePoint
Clarifying the Security Scope limits in SharePoint lists
Historically, Microsoft has defined it along the more conservative definition as “A scope is the security boundary for a securable…
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Powershell
Joining a Server To The Farm
Joining a server to the farm, how hard could that be? Heck, it’s just a command…let’s have a look at…
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SharePoint
MS-Office Integration with SharePoint
I always assumed Microsoft’s strength was integration between its products, so I assumed that there would be good integration between SharePoint and…
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Powershell
Scripts To Create Scripts…
Everyone writes PowerShell scripts, but writing scripts to create scripts? I had an interesting challenge. I needed to create a…
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Lls
Redirect to Friendly URLs in SharePoint
It’s hard to pull the plug on an old URL host name in favor of a new one. Sure AAM…
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Records Management
Records Management with SharePoint – Information Architecture: part…
There is a good deal of groundwork required to fully implement Records Management in SharePoint. The foundation is the overall…
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Book Review
SharePoint Administration with PowerShell
I just completed a new book on SharePoint Administration with PowerShell. This one by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, called Microsoft SharePoint 2010…
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Records Management
Records Management with SharePoint – part 1
SharePoint 2010 has some great capabilities for implementing a true Records Management policy. Let’s explore both the capabilities as well…
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Security
Library and Folder Security Gotchas
When setting up SharePoint security on sites, libraries and folders, there are quite a few options available, however not all…
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Powershell
Customized Taxonomy Creation from a feedfile
Creating a customized Taxonomy from a feed file There’s an native SharePoint 2013 capability to import termsets using a CSV.…
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Fast Search
Tuning Your Crawl
Want to tune your Search crawling? There’s plenty of benefit to be had refining how Search crawls in SharePoint. Eliminate…
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MySite
Changing Mysite Links
When the User Profile Service is configured, settings are configured for the default location for all MySites, as well as…
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Fast Search
Limiting Search Crawling to a subsite
I had an interesting challenge. I was asked to limit Search Crawling to a single subsite. The underlying issue was…
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Powershell
Memory Management in PowerShell
For limited work in SharePoint PowerShell, memory is freed when the PowerShell session is closed. If your script ignores memory…
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Sql
Direct filtered access to SharePoint Timer Job History
Have you ever needed to scroll through the Timer Job History in Central Administration? Wow, do a lot of jobs…
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Powershell
Reporting on all user permissions in a web…
Frequently I am asked to report on user permissions across the enterprise. While each site collection, probably each site and…
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C#
Using the SP2013 Client Object Model in InfoPath…
Someone asked me today about using the SharePoint 2013 Client Object Model in Managed Code. I’ve done this in VSTA…
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Content types
Eliminating metadata from the Folder Content Type
Once again I was compelled to swoop in to fix a managled set of Metadata and Content Types for a…
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MySite
Trusted MySite Host Location
How often can one make a change in Development that blows up Production? Within the User Profile Service Application one…
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Rbs
RBS external provider invalid reference
Inside every Content Database is a key table called AllDocs; when configured for RBS there is a field called DocFlags…
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Security
Secure Store Master Key Error
Don’t you hate mysterious, scary errors? How about this one? A critical incident has occurred where the Secure Store service…
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Performance
SharePoint Farm Trusted Certificate
We all want our SharePoint farms to be blindingly fast. Here’s an easy step you can take to improve performance,…
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Fast Search
FAST Search and the ticking time bomb
Tick…tick..tick…when you install FAST Search for SharePoint (FS4S), you probably have a time bomb set to go off exactly one…
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Powershell
Removing metadata from Folders
A dear friend of mine inadvertently tagged his SharePoint Document Library folders while using a combination of Default Metadata and…
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Project Server and Web Access
Migrating a full copy of MS-Project Server content
There’s a frequent need to refresh MS-Project Server test environments from Production. The conventional wisdom holds that you need to delete…
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Rbs
RBS (Remote Blob Storage) part 3
A configured and running Remote Blob Storage (RBS) is a ticking time bomb until you’ve configured the Maintainer to run.…
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Rbs
RBS (Remote Blob Storage) part 2
To get RBS going we are going to configure SQL Server, install the RBS libraries on the SharePoint servers, and…
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Rbs
RBS (Remote Blob Storage) part 1
Remote Blob Storage (RBS) is a Microsoft technology for managing large BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) in SQL Server and is…
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