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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 …

Mario Kart in VR The Mario Kart in VR Setup: Dolphin Emulator for Mario Kart Wii and VR Oculus Rift DK2 Support. Link Oculus Rift DK2 for head and positional tracking. Logitech G27 Steering wheel and pedals for Kart control. All combined = Awesome Next you need to remove the head of Mario Link and then …

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/ … …