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Here’s a great post by Benjamin Niaulin differentiating the mysterious SkyDrive vs. SkyDrive Pro confusion introduced in SharePoint 2013. http://en.share-gate.com/blog/what-is-skydrive-pro-in-sharepoint-2013 Of course, there was no other possible name they could’ve used than SkyDrive… was there? 

The following is a great post by Tobias Zimmergren about how to change the text in the upper left of the 2013 branding very easily via PowerShell. http://zimmergren.net/technical/sp-2013-tip-change-the-sharepoint-text-in-the-top-left-corner Thanks Tobias, I’ve used this several times (including in our own Portal – seen below).  [code language=”powershell”] $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://[your SharePoint web application] $webApp.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = "Awesome …

Recently, I worked on project where I created a workflow in SharePoint designer 2013, when I published the workflow I got the error message: “Unexpected error on server associating the workflow“. After many dead ends with the Google, and other solutions which weren’t solving things for me, I came across the simple solution that restarting …

You may have come across this message in SharePoint 2010, and thought you did everything to resolve it (except, perhaps the most obvious thing I’ll mention below). Message from webpage: Server was unable to process request. Failed to publish workflow: It appears that Nintex Workflow 2010 is not activated for this Web Application.  Check you …

You may have noticed that in 2013 the default group for “authenticated users” is no longer there.  As you can see below, even typing it in, you get this lovely “No result found” message. Well, have no fear, even though the UI won’t give you any assistance in the matter, all you have to do …

There have been a number of times I’ve forgotten that there’s a kind of black magic going on with the JS Link field in SharePoint List Views.  I’m writing this mostly to remind myself of how to do it properly, but also to help anyone else out there who may be running into the same …

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to sit in on a class to learn how to use OneNote. I don’t know if it’s obvious (she says sarcastically), but I am not always excited or even willing to learn anything new when it comes to computers. Sean has been talking about how much I …

If you want to get a range of cells (say person names) concatenated together in a single cell, you’ll find that you’re not able to provide the concatenate function with a range.  However, you can tell Excel to expand that cell’s range quite easily.     A B 1 Bob   2 Sally   3 …

I’ve had this remote backup in place now for about a month and a half and the results have definitely been “mixed”.  In fact, I have shutdown the remote backup at this point pending moving the customer to a trial of the Enterprise Plus product that enables the WAN acceleration feature of Veeam. I guess …

Site-to-site VPN connections are very easy to create between Sonicwall devices, almost ridiculously easy.  Here’s how to do it. Sonicwall let’s you set up site-to-site VPN’s in a number of ways.  I find the easiest and fastest way is to use the procedure that Sonicwall recommends when one of the VPN gateway Sonicwalls receives its …