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You may have noticed that in 2013 the default group for “authenticated users” is no longer there.  As you can see below, even typing it in, you get this lovely “No result found” message. Well, have no fear, even though the UI won’t give you any assistance in the matter, all you have to do …

There have been a number of times I’ve forgotten that there’s a kind of black magic going on with the JS Link field in SharePoint List Views.  I’m writing this mostly to remind myself of how to do it properly, but also to help anyone else out there who may be running into the same …

A couple of weeks back I finally finished my final remaining 2010 certification.  So now I can officially say I have all of the following credentials: SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Certified IT Professional – SharePoint Administrator 2010 Microsoft Certified Professional Developer – SharePoint Developer 2010 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist – SharePoint 2010, Configuration Microsoft Certified …

This may not help anyone but me, but I’m going to post this for myself nevertheless, as it seems to happen enough to me that it’s about time I document this, so here goes. Ensure you have the service “User Profile Service” running in the “Services on Server” on the intended server running UPS. Ensure …

The following is a great article outlying the difference between the preferred SharePoint 2007 (SP1) method of using External Blob Storage (EBS) and the SharePoint 2010 method of using Remote Blob Storage (RBS). http://blogs.alachisoft.com/storageedge/external-vs-remote-blob-storage/

Once both Search and UPS are setup on a SharePoint farm, in order to ensure that the Search Service Application is able to search the User Profile Service Application for users (people), we need to include the content access account in the list of Administrators. Go into Central Admin –> Manage Service Applications. In there, …

I ran into this at a client site recently, and wanted to blog my experience.  I had a number of things not working as expected in the Cache (including Event ID 1000 and Event ID 1026), and at the end of the day, it appears to have boiled down to 2 things.  Firstly, the cache …

My fellow MVP (and friend, and boss, and colleague, and all-round sarcastic guy) Sean Wallbridge wrote this the other day (July 1st, 2013), and it sums it up well. It was like Christmas today at itgroove and we weren’t even open (Canada Day, eh?). First the new and improved OneNote and then immediately followed by …

When setting up a SharePoint Server, you often want certain service accounts to be able to have local log on rights, even though you’ll likely never manually log on to the servers as these accounts (such as the farm account).  This is necessary for back-end processes to be able to proceed successfully in many cases …

I was recently asked to remove a Quick Launch item in all quick launch menus across an entire web application.  The following PowerShell will iterate over all webs in all sites in a web application searching for the menu item labelled “BAD Quick Launch Item” and will delete that node from each location. $FindString = …