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In SharePoint 2013 there’s a “Quick Edit” View Format.  Most people will know this from SharePoint 2010 when it was called the “Datasheet View” View Format. “Quick Edit” in the Ribbon There are some scenarios in SP2013 where the “Quick Edit” View Format can not function properly.  There have been a number of posts on …

If you’ve deleted a site collection (anytime as of or after SP1 in SharePoint 2010 – note prior to 2010 SP1, you’re out of luck), and you want to recover the site collection, it’s actually quite simple. Note that in Office 365 simply go into the admin interface for SharePoint, in the section where you …

The following blog post saved our farm.  Well, maybe not quite that dramatic, but it certainly saved me a lot of time.  Essentially, the only thing I had to do was run the suggested PowerShell, and everything worked perfectly afterwards. “Try running the command Get-SPProduct –local on the server that says it’s missing the required …

Good news Timmy, I jumped on the phone with a very nice and helpful support desk administrator at Microsoft and we managed to resolve this issue together.  If you: Navigate to Site Settings > People and Groups > … Members, then Click on Settings > Make Default Group The error gets resolved. I don’t have …

Office 365 SharePoint Online already has good adoption, but all of the features are still new to many people.  Here’s my question that the great and powerful internet can’t quite answer yet: If a Site Members Group has the Contribute permission level (& not the Edit permission level), does this trigger the “Members cannot share …

We were doing an on-premises install of SharePoint 2013 this week, and realized there wasn’t an easy to find, friendly versions of the following antivirus exclusion information. It’s best to set the scan exclusion on these folders before letting business users into Production. If you have an issue where your users are getting the dreaded …

A customer of ours had an issue with the out of the box photo rotator in SharePoint – every few minutes it kept prompting them for credentials.  After some inspection, I noticed that pretty much every rotator solution would always change the image by swapping between two <img> elements, and changing the URL of the …

The long awaited arrival of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 is finally here.  What I’m really excited about is PowerMap is finally out of Beta as well, and now part of the Excel / PowerBI suite.  Also, not to be left out, Exchange also had it’s SP1 arrive today. http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx

In SharePoint 2013 sometimes you just have to rely on old techniques to get things done.  Take activating the publishing features for example.  Often times I’ve had trouble activating these features using the GUI in 2013, and no mystical combination of turning on the site feature followed by the web feature seemed to make a …

You may have come across the same disappointment as I did when trying to get the version of document while output it to Excel – i.e. the version column does not get exported. The post below goes through a technique for allowing you to capture the version history. https://blogs.technet.com/b/fesiro/archive/2012/12/01/how-to-include-retain-the-document-version-with-export-to-excel-spreadsheet.aspx This post has several gotcha’s regarding …