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“or edit this list” (Quick Edit Part 1)
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 …
Read onRestore a Deleted Site Collection in SharePoint 2010 SP1+ and SharePoint 2013
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 …
Read onPSConfig Fails with Missing / Required Error Message After Applying CU or Service Pack in SharePoint 2010
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 …
Read onO365 — Yammer
I’m going to state right up front that I am an old fart … I don’t “get” Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of the always on, always plugged in social networks. I really don’t understand the need to be constantly informed. Of course my younger colleagues just look at me totally askance when I …
Read onDoes SharePoint Manage Records?
Digital records management seemed fictional for most organizations even as late as 2013. Joe Shepley of Doculabs threw out the challenge that no one was really doing it right, “The problem is bigger than SharePoint – Now before I get accused of bashing SharePoint here, let me let you all in on a dirty little …
Read onO365–Do you need a partner to help migrate to O365?
The quick answer to this is, of course, no. You don’t need a partner to help you migrate to O365, you could do it yourself. But you might want to have a partner, specially so if you do not have internal resources that understand all that is involved with a migration. Office365 is built on …
Read onWindows Server 2012 Upgrade to Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 Upgrade to Server 2012 R2 The chaps in my office wanted to use the new version 2 Hyper-V VM’s on one of the hosts in our rack so I took it upon myself to upgrade one of our Server 2012 hosts to R2 (non DC). After some researching it looked pretty painless …
Read onO365 MultiFactor Authentication in depth–Part 2–how it works inside O365
In my last post I outlined the basics of multifactor authentication and also discussed the method that Office365 uses to implement it. In this post I will describe how it actually works. O365 multifactor authentication can be enabled user-by-user within O365 by your O365 admin. Once your account has been enabled for mutlifactor authentication the …
Read onO365 MultiFactor Authentication in depth–Part 1–what is multifactor authentication?
I wrote a quick post a few days ago about O365 and multifactor authentication but then I realized that many people don’t know what this is or why you might want it. So, this is my primer on multifactor authentication as it pertains to O365. First off, what the heck is multi-factor authentication? For that …
Read onThe final piece of my Oculus Rift Setup
The final piece of my Oculus Rift Setup I finally got my hands on a Razer Hydra the other day which completes my Rift setup until the DK2 is released. The Razer Hydra was a PC based motion controller released by Razer/Sixense. It looks sort of like a dual wielding Wii remote. As far as …
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