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I was recently asked to enable and disable certain features across an entire farm that were activated by virtue of having upgraded to the SharePoint enterprise license.  The key is that to do this effectively, I wrote some PowerShell, and I needed the Feature ID.  The table of features with their IDs is below. Short …

As posted by Eric Ligman (Microsoft Sales Excellence Program Manager) https://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx?Redirected=true [Below is a copy of Eric’s post] Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up with a second …

I ran into the recently, and the following blog post covered exactly what I needed to do to resolve it. http://blog.entos.at/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14 The key information in there was the following. This state is ok, as long as it doesn’t last too long. But at one day you need to upgrade the Database. The upgrade is no …

I recently ran into an issue with a customer in a multi-server SharePoint farm (1 SQL server, 1 WFE, 1 APP server), where applying an Enterprise license was not going as easily as it should.  Under normal circumstances, when you have a SharePoint server that is presently licensed for the “Standard feature set”, upgrading to …

Let’s say you’d like to create a custom list that had a calendar view associated with it.  And in that list, you wanted to emulate what the SharePoint calendar list does (which is to pre-calculate the End Date / End Time for you).  How does one do such a thing? Basically, I’m referring to how …

I’m grabbing most of this content from the following link, http://latenightsp.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/sharepoint-config-cache/, just in case the blog disappears at some point in the future – I don’t want this information to get lost.  So many thanks to Mayank Malik over at Late Night SharePoint. Reblogged from Late Night SharePoint What is the SharePoint Configuration Cache?The cache …

Being a Windows Phoneite, Phoner… Phonee?  As well as a SharePointer…? (English is hard)  I’m a big fan of anything that integrate the two of them together.  I came across a number of recently created SharePoint apps written specifically for Windows Phone 8.  In the link below, you’ll find the blog of the author who …

What SharePoint 2013 introduced the concept of 3rd party Apps, which can be remotely added to your SharePoint farm (via the Microsoft SharePoint Store). In order to set this up, an administrator needs to configure SharePoint and their organization’s network settings to allow this integration between their SharePoint farm and the App Store. There are …

I recently got Access Services (2013) in place in our internal SharePoint 2013 environment.  The following is what I learned from trying to go through this install (for the second time — the first time was a failure because we hadn’t setup Apps properly). NOTE: In this article, unless otherwise stated, all references to Access …

This document available from Microsoft is a great reference point to know what each service application, content DB, system DB, and every other SharePoint 2013 DB is all about, and the estimated sizes each one can grow to.  The document is very large (over a meter tall – that’s over a yard for you American …