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A little late, but Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you! Wendy and I ushered in 2013 with family, friends and our new puppy. We had a nice Christmas meal and spent much of our time in the living room playing with the kids – yours truly was in charge of assembling Lego. We were grateful for the past year and …
Read onHeads up SharePoint 2010 Admins–kb2756920 is trouble
Hey folks, Seeing a lot of buzz in the forums and while I haven’t stumbled across this myself yet, this one seems worthy of being aware of. Note, I don’t believe there is a clear direction/instruction out of Redmond yet so take the below with a grain of salt. The below is only what I’ve …
Read onProvisioning the Work Management Service Application
I was bumbling around with Tasks today in anticipation of plotting out our new issue system and the idea of aggregated tasks is interesting (not finishing exploring if it is a fit yet however). On my site under tasks, I got the following however when looking to see all of my tasks in one place: …
Read onIncoming Emails to SharePoint 2013 lists or libraries suddenly stop working
I ran into a strange one today, that I don’t believe was replicable in SharePoint 2010. Note, this article isn’t about the steps or actions necessary to get that going, there are plenty of posts out on the Interweb that cover that. What I had SharePoint 2013 working perfectly fine for incoming emails to SharePoint …
Read onImplementing Custom Business Templates in your SharePoint 2010 Departmental Document Libraries
This blog post has been sitting in my drafts folder for almost 2 years (pathetic). So, after finding it again, I figured I’ll get it out there in case it helps someone. This is an update from my original post some 3 years ago for SharePoint 2007 (and I suppose a 2013 version is due, …
Read onSharePoint MVP Predictions
Honoured to be included with this bunch again for Dan Holme’s Annual SharePoint Predictions. Check it out here: SharePoint Predictions 2013
Read onDisplay Search Box nowhere to be found in a SharePoint 2013 Web Part
This one was a little frustrating and not altogether obvious, so I thought I’d share the result What SharePoint 2013 has an amazing inline search feature for lists and libraries. I love it and it won’t be long before it is the one thing folks without 2013 moan about… The idea of being able to …
Read onEmail Address Sync with SharePoint UPS and Cloud Email Hosting
I ran into this situation today in our farm and figured while there is already a handy post out there that outlines the fix. However, I figured I’d share the background here as this will likely become a more common scenario going forward with more and more businesses looking to the cloud (Office 365 particularly) …
Read onI’m liking the SharePoint 2013 Blog Site Enhancements
As I continue our journey of moving our SharePoint platform and content over to SharePoint 2013, I wanted to take a moment and pass along some of the improvements I’ve noticed in SharePoint 2013 blogs (as you may know, I’m a big fan of Blogs or Shhh, we don’t call them blogs, we call them …
Read onSharePoint sites and reserved words may not be what they appear to be
I ran into the following today and from memory, I’ve done this before too. Luckily it only took me a few minutes to reach back into the mental archives or I might have been pulling some more hair out. What Well, I’m in the thick of a SharePoint content migration from 2010 to 2013. We …
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