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With a client of ours, I was investigating why several translations weren’t working properly. It turns out things weren’t translating properly because of several different reasons.  I’ve described them below, so hopefully you can look for these yourself in the future.  It appears that one of the bigger issues is often that the apostrophes are …

To enable the developer dashboard in 2013 is fairly simply, so long as you’re willing to delve into PowerShell.  The developer dashboard toggle in SharePoint 2013 – This is OFF by default in your farm, you will NOT see this unless you turn on the developer dashboard at the farm level.   The developer dashboard …

I ran into exactly this issue as described by the post below. http://blog.mwiedemeyer.de/post/2012/10/11/Search-Host-Controller-Service-in-Starting-state On the "Services on Server" page, the "Search Host Controller Service" showed the status "Starting". Basically, running the following PowerShell as the Farm Admin Account (run as administrator in PowerShell) solves the issue. [sourcecode language=”powershell”] $acl = Get-Acl HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName $person = [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount] …

Today I successfully completed the 70-573 Application Developer exam (having previously completed the 70-667 exam).  I’m now well on my way down both paths of the SharePoint exam hierarchy.

If you’ve ever needed to change the master page of a specific page in a library, this technique is for you.  For example, if you have a page in the /SitePages/ library, and you wanted to assign a single page to a specific master page, all you have to do is change that pages’ “MasterPageFile” …

When trying to quote a customer on a new server installation, you have some important numbers you need to consider, and one of those is definitely how licensing works for server licenses.  A co-worker and I ran into a scenario the other day where we weren’t entirely sure of the rules for licensing once we …

I had a scenario where the contents of the value I was looking for was a multiline rich text value.  The contents I cared about displaying to the end user was simply the text nodes contained within this value.  In other words, what I cared about seeing was this: Important Information: Exact timing and details …

Using a SQL Server alias, you’ll be able to change the database server in your SharePoint farm.  In addition, setting an alias should really be a best practice for most new farm builds.  This technique is useful when moving or virtualising your database server, setting up a test environment, or especially when migrating from SQL …

The next generation is now available for Customer Preview.  This apparently includes a preview of the next version of SharePoint as well. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Jul12/07-16OfficePR.aspx

The article below describes how if your underlying SQL server’s IO performance is crap, you can expect that your SharePoint performance will suck too. http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/SharePoint-performance-sinks-swims-with-SQL-Server-throughput