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I’ve had the odd occasion where the SharePoint PowerPivot thumbnails (in the gallery view) haven’t shown up properly for me, and a while ago I compiled a collection of debugging procedures. I figured I’d share this collection with the world. Some of these were meant more for SP2010, and SQL 2008 / R2, but many …

I recently had a need to filter a SharePoint list view by a hyperlink column and found that unlike most column types in SharePoint, the edit view UI did not provide me with the ability to filter by this column type. It’s an odd choice, but… ok? As it turns out, you can actually create …

I was working with a client recently and after running some OS updates on their SharePoint servers, I tried to run the Product Config wizard (PSconfig).   The command I was running was as follows. PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures   Unfortunately, at one point (later in the sequence …

I tend to need to do this sort of thing a lot recently, and it’s not as simple as looking for a pre-fetched value sitting in the DOM somewhere, so I figured I better blog it and then I’ll know where to find it. Here’s my code (below). All you have to do is call …

I recently had an adventure with a customer related to the need to delete and recreate a service account in SharePoint, retaining the exact name before and after recreation. Of course, we had to do this without being able to remove it from SharePoint cleanly beforehand. Unfortunately, this didn’t go so smoothly, and the main …

I’ve run into problems at times when trying to activate the SharePoint site feature “SharePoint Server Publishing”. In the instance below, essentially the problem boiled down to the fact that there was already a “PublishingImages” library. As it turns out, this is simply a library by the name of “Images”. To resolve this, simply rename …

I recently had the need to determine which delegate controls were activated on my site collection. Unfortunately I quickly discovered there was no easy way to do this in the SharePoint GUI. As such, I went searching on the Google machine, and I came across the article below. It has a great, concise overview of …

I recently came across an issue where a client of ours was using the “XSL Link” in the Miscellaneous section of a list view web part. What was happening was when the user clicked on the context menu of an item in the list, they would receive the following error message. Item is no longer …

Note: The technique described below is designed for SharePoint 2013.  It could be adapted to 2010, but it’s not likely to work in 2010 with a simple copy/paste. Note 2: This also should work just fine in Office 365, so get ready to knock some socks off. In SharePoint 2013 we at itgroove have a …

What I was looking to determine was what would happen if I sent an email to a SharePoint group, as opposed to explicitly defining a set of users in a workflow variable.  Up until now, I’d never really known what would happen when sending email to a SharePoint group, so here’s what I found. As …