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Access Denied to a site collection, even to SharePoint Site Collection Administrators
This is now the second time I’ve seen this, but it is still a rarity and you should only do the following in extreme circumstances once you’ve determined it isn’t something else. The Problem A SharePoint Farm is humming along nicely when WHAM! all of a sudden you can’t login to your SharePoint Web Application, …
Read onFantastic and Fair Priced SharePoint Documentation Tool
Stumbled across this gem today. The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint from Acceleratio Ltd. As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally …
Read onHow to create a SharePoint visual site map using Smart Art and SharePoint Designer
Those of know me know that I live by ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’. That said, my experience has been that if we provide a visual site map (diagram of sites/webs in your collection), folks appreciate it and understand where data should go. An example: Here’s how it’s done First off, watch …
Read onHow to move a site collection to a different managed path
I pulled this from the old OneNote archives the other day and figured I’d share it with anyone that might need to do the same. The Challenge A customer had us upgrade them to SharePoint 2010. However, they didn’t like that their site collection was at http://go.somewhere.com/sites/department and instead wanted a dedicated managed path (explicit …
Read onAdobe Acrobat finally has some SharePoint integration
Only took about a decade but Acrobat 10 has some SharePoint integration now. To be fair, Acrobat 10 has been out for a while, since the beginning of the year, so I’m pretty late commenting on it. But my friend Tom pointed out this video that highlights the document library integration and I have had …
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