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The Problem A customer was experiencing strange ‘access denied’ errors when attempting to their home page (http://portal.somewhere.com/). It appeared very random in nature and we were very confident that permissions were not the issue. Server event logs and ULS yielded no results either.   The Solution It appears the problem is that the Wiki Page …

This post is about removing the ‘Add New Item Button’ from a list. And it is short but to the point 😉   Use the following in a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) if you need to remove from a single page Add it to a stylesheet and link to a site via master page …

The Problem Okay, another strange one. In this case, there doesn’t seem to be a KB regarding it so it is 80% gut feel and 20% confirmation from Spence of similar behaviour. The problem is, after applying (seemingly/timing wise and based on 2 environments to date) Service Pack 1 (SP1) to SharePoint 2010, if you …

We were inspired by a number of sites, including http://utah.gov and opted to change our SharePoint Intranet/CMS home page to be focused on Search (why not, isn’t Google or some form of search engine your preferred start page?). We *borrowed* the Bing search box style and incorporated a bunch of images into a rotator, complete …

Here’s another one for the books.   Problem Are you missing some of the Social Collaboration Web Parts? For example, following a SharePoint 2010 upgrade, I was expecting to find the Note Board, Organization Browser, Site Users, Tag Cloud and User Tasks and instead, was only able to pick 2 of them (Site Users and …

So this was an interesting one. First off, curses to the third party vendor who will remain nameless for requiring that we access their database on a sub site creation (ya, I followed their instructions to a tee, they need to fix their product…). Now on to the problem and resolution.   The Problem When …

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We all (should) know about adding our SharePoint site to the Local Intranet zone on computers we trust, to ensure ease of login while inside the corporate network. But did you know Firefox can do the same thing? Here’s how…   The Add On Way There is a Firefox add-on called NTLMAuth for Firefox”. If …

If you ever need to hide this on a single page (i.e. not hidden through a master page globally), the Style Reference is below to plunk into a Content Editor Web Part. Figure 1 : Don’t wanna see that? Use the Style from below in a CEWP Add this in a Content Editor Web Part …

Now hang on a second. I’m not saying download it and install right now. Like always, the service pack will be addressing a number of things that cumulative updates have in the past but this one is special (or dangerous 😉 as it is delivering some new features as well. So take the time to …