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I ran into this today at a customer, where they had SharePoint 2010 with PowerPivot/Analysis Services and Reporting Services installed on SQL Server 2012.  They were trying to view an Access Services Report, which takes advantage of the SharePoint Reporting Services integration – this was throwing an error in the UI.  However, as they were …

Following on this forum post, and this blog post, I wanted to be able to undeclare a specific record.  In my case, I wanted to undeclare a record by “ID”, but you could really do this by any (unique enough) attribute of a record. The code I used to do this was essentially as follows. …

I began working on a new Office 365 site I had just created, and wanted to use Visual Studio to add an app to the site (using the Visual Studio deployment mechanism).  Unfortunately, I ran into the following error when I tried to run a “deploy” of the app. “Sideloading of apps is not enabled …

The following question came up the other day. If I have a SharePoint list with an InfoPath form (front-end) on my Office 365 site (obviously built by a user with sufficient permissions to design such a form), can my K level (Kiosk) users fill that form in? In our case, a customer wanted to have …

This list, with over 40 items on it, is a great place to go to find everything you need to get started with any of the above categories (dev, design, or test).  Once you’re started, it’s also a great place to improve your environment, add some tweaking, improve you experience, and step up to all …

As posted on CNet, (some) office documents can now be opened in Chrome.  Apparently not designed for chromebooks, and also doesn’t seem to work with my Windows 8 desktop, but it supposedly works somewhere. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57581475-93/new-chrome-extension-can-open-office-docs/?ttag=fbwp

A couple of weeks ago I needed to buy a new lawnmower.  I bought a Honda mower from a company that I’ve bought other tools from in the past; they give great service, their prices are reasonable and the fellow I dealt with actually seemed to care about what my needs were.  Anyway, I bought …

Here’s a great (fairly comprehensive list) of web sites that sell 3rd party web parts for SharePoint (some 2010, some 2013).  Many thanks to T3chnicalLead and Lawrence Cawood. http://technicallead.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/list-of-companies-that-sell-sharepoint-web-parts/ I’ll just add one more to the list…  http://store.itgroove.net/

So you’ve decided to get into the SharePoint app world, and are suddenly faced with a dilemma, how does one manage your app licenses once you’ve obtained an app?  There are several scenarios that one must be aware of, some more fun than others.  We’ll start with the good ‘ol MSDN table – don’t worry, …

This cool little sample pack from Microsoft is a great starting point for SharePoint app developers/development.  Broken down into C# and VB.NET or a combined pack.  Apps for SharePoint sample pack:  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps/Apps-for-SharePoint-sample-64c80184 Be aware, when extracting the Zip file, some filenames are very long, so don’t try to expand it deeply nested in a folder …