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Well, it would seem that the golden rule of “if you rush, it will break” has already kicked in … First, a correction:  I stated in my last post that the free edition of Veeam allows for individual fie restores, that is incorrect.  I was basing my comments on the information on Veeam’s site which …

As promised, this is the second post in a series of posts about work I’m doing at the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary in Victoria.  As you may recall from my first post, I said that I would document the good, the bad and the ugly!  Well, here we go with some of everything! …

I ran into an issue where an InfoPath 2013 form had some Decimal (double) fields, and they were nicely displayed as currency in the View controls.  However when these fields were promoted as properties when the form got published to Office 365 SharePoint Online, the system automatically created SharePoint Number columns (which you cannot edit like normal metadata …

In a recent project, we were working with a customer who was using a fixed width centered design in their corporate intranet (using the Publishing feature’s “/Pages” library and the Site Master Page), but the System Pages of the site were still full width. Since wiki libraries use the System Master Page, they were full …

Branding SharePoint – Peeling the Onion from itgroove Professional Services

In the wise words of my colleague, Robert Dick… We’ve been chatting internally at itgroove about Windows 10 (and playing with it, of course!) and we are taking a stance regarding corporate adoption that is probably pretty common.  Before you jump on the bandwagon you need to put Windows 10 on a test box and …

One challenge we often need to overcome working with Publishing mode in SharePoint is quickly and effectively knowing if a page is in edit mode. This lets us apply different CSS styles or quite often disable functionality that is not needed in Edit Mode. (Especially surrounding Responsive Design). While SharePoint gives some great MasterPage level …

We’ve been chatting internally at itgroove about Windows 10 (and playing with it, of course!) and we are taking a stance regarding corporate adoption that is probably pretty common.  Before you jump on the bandwagon you need to put Windows 10 on a test box and test the daylights out of all of your custom …

NDR 554 5.4.4 SMTPSEND.DNS.MxLoopback A little bit of history on why I was receiving this DNS loop error NDR email (NDR 554 5.4.4 SMTPSEND.DNS.MxLoopback). We have a Hybrid solution with Exchange 2013, DirSync and Office 365. I created a new Office365 user from my on premise Exchange server and Dirsynced the account to the cloud …