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Recently we discovered that the help in our SharePoint site was not working properly when performing an online search for content. Below: 1) Enter Content then 2) Press the search icon. Note that by default SharePoint will be configured to search online first. The result we were seeing was similar to this below: The problem …

Following up on my last post “SharePoint 2013 Moving the Search Query Component to a WFE“, again, I’ve used a variety of others (blog) posts to do this in the past, some of which have gone offline and as such, I wanted to keep track of how to do this for myself, so I’ve gone …

I’ve done this a number of times, and have used a variety of others (blog) posts to do this in the past, some of which have gone offline since I first started using them, as such, I wanted to keep track of how to do this for myself, so I’ve gone ahead and grabbed the …

This article is a complete reprint from “SharePoint.Sharron”. As her site is now deprecated, I wanted to ensure this information wasn’t lost to the ether of the interwebs. Many thanks to SharePoint Sharron (Sharon Richardson), and I wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Originally posted here: http://www.sharepointsharon.com/2013/03/sharepoint-workflow/ Complete copy (for my own …

I recently was working with a customer and trying to get a PowerPivot workbook working. We were running into the following error. I found the following blog post, which helped me get past the issue. http://www.bidn.com/blogs/DevinKnight/ssis/5362/dealing-with-power-pivot-to-tabular-upgrade-errors The recommendation in the blog post is as follows: Translation: The Service Account that is running the SSAS Tabular …

I was reading through the following article recently and found there was a really cool section about how to create a custom callout in an image library (in SP2013) simply using the JSLink override functionality. They even give you all the code you need to do it yourself. Below is an example of what they …

Recently I had a need to get rid of some old search topologies on a customers’ SharePoint farm. I found this awesome line of PowerShell that does exactly that in one neat little package. Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication | Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology |? {$_.State -eq “Inactive”} |% {Remove-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $_ -Confirm:$false}; Many thanks to Chris Rumel and his blog post …

I recently ran into the error 6398 on a customer machine and was stumped. The error was something along the lines of this (below). The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUsageImportJobDefinition (ID [GUID]) threw an exception. More information is included below. Access to the path ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS’ is denied. To resolve …

I found this brilliant (and short) blog post about how to pre-expand the annoying “Show More” link in a SharePoint task list. Namely this sort of thing, seen below: Here’s the blog post (link), and just for good measure, I’ve captured the heart of it below, just in case the link goes offline. http://ingessharepointnotes.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/expand-long-list-forms-by-default/ … …

If you’re unable to refresh the data and you’re seeing the following issue (below) when trying to refresh content, follow the steps described below. Note this was written with SharePoint 2010 in mind, but it should apply equally to SP2013. The “PowerPivot Data” value will be whatever the name of your connection is (see below). …