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The latest book I’ve helped contribute to is now available in print.  Many thanks to Sean Wallbridge for help getting me involved, Keith Tuomi for fighting over the chapters with me , and most of all, the author, Stephen Cawood, for being cool with letting the whole itgroove team join him in the technical editing …

I recently ran into a situation where I wanted to pull some content from another web site, however, due to a configuration constraint, I was unable to to this in a normal fashion.  Essentially, there was a table of data (a subset of the content on the page) on another site which I wanted to …

Unlike in 2010, where you can change the search topology with a few clicks of your mouse in the UI (found about half way through this article under the title “Adjusting the Search Application Topology”), SharePoint 2013 does not play as nicely, at least if your mouse is your precious. In SharePoint 2013, this is …

As most people have realized by now, the folks over at SharePoint 2013 headquarters have remove the option for “Sign in as Different User” from the user menu.  They have posted this article about the change (also described here), and how to work around it.  However, reading the fine print “This option uses an unsupported …

As detailed in this post on the topic, you may sometimes see the follow error message when running a PowerPivot report (either when opening the report, running an explicit data refresh, or it may pop up on its own if the worksheet is setup to refresh automatically).  You may also encounter this error in other …

There’s a useful PowerShell script out there which is designed to iterate over all your SharePoint Web Applications and “warm them up”.  But what happens when you find that there are other pages within your site that should be warmed up, and that script isn’t cutting it for you?  Well, it turns out there’s a …

To paraphrase a wise man, once you’ve got PowerPivot, “all your SharePoint’s are belong to us”.  I’m going to demonstrate how, using Excel 2013 (which has PowerPivot built right in – you just have to enable it), and SharePoint 2013 you can really easily be crunching some of your SharePoint data, without ever having to …

The latest SP dev tools are now available for full release.  A few articles on the topic can be found below. Office and SharePoint 2013 Developer Tools Now Available: http://winsupersite.com/office-2013/office-and-sharepoint-2013-developer-tools-now-available Download the Office and SharePoint Visual Studio tools! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/05/download-the-office-and-sharepoint-visual-studio-tools.aspx The tools themselves can be obtained here. Office Dev Tools for VS2012: http://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2012 Office 365 Developer …

Ok, here’s the situation, my parents went away on a week’s vacation.  Oh, wait, no, never mind – I’m not the Fresh Prince from the 1980’s.  The real story begins like this.  I was working on a problem for a customer where I needed to copy an item with metadata from one library (with a …

I threw this together for a customer, and figured I’d blog it, as it’s generally fairly useful to remember how to do this again in the future.  The steps below help to guide you through the process of adding the “Link to a Document” content type to a document library. 1) Go into the Site …