If you have ever deleted a SharePoint site from Office 365 or other SharePoint Online provider, you know that sometimes the sit around for a while. If you are trying to reuse the name of a site you recently deleted, this can be a problem. Fortunately the solution is to Read more
Microsoft has been tightening up security since… forever and the latest round affecting SharePoint Online can be befuddling. If you are trying to upload a .WSP solution to the Solutions Gallery you might see “Sorry, you don’t have access to this page” even if you are the administrator. If you click Read more
If you are attaching files from your Office365 Onedrive Sharepoint cloud storage using Outlook 2016 you will find that it provides a lovely drop down showing you your recently edited files. If you select files from that list and they are stored on OneDrive / SharePoint what it will actually Read more
If you see the dreaded “Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131904” in SharePoint or keep having your SharePoint Error out you will likely try to restart the SharePoint Services and find that it works for a few minutes, BUT the solution is to deal with your SQL install. In my case, I Read more
It is not difficult to remove the left menu bar from Sharepoint 2013 but unfortuately it is not as simple as clicking a checkbox and the steps are tedious: Click EDIT (top right of your site) Click inside the body of your site Click INSERT (top menu) Click WEBPART Click Read more
SharePoint 2013 was much easier to install than its predecessors but to get a site going is still complex, mostly because of the a-typical names Micosoft has developed to describe sites and pages. This cookbook is pretty straight forward and you should be able to go from nothing to working Read more
What this means is that there is a pre-Beta of the next version of Office, but you can’t get it. “Not since Office 2003 has Microsoft taken such an “ambitious undertaking” to reinvent the productivity suite. Today, PJ Hough, CVP of development for Microsoft’s Office division, announced the “technical preview” Read more
I figured out How to Add A Gantt Chart to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation last year, but I forgot and it took me over an hour to figure it out again, so this time I am writing the process down. There are two ready ways to create a Gantt chart via Read more
When attempting to add users to a Sharepoint 2010 site I found I could not find domain users, only local ones. After 3 hours of goofing around, this is what I found. I was getting the following: Requested Registry access is not allowed. Correlation ID: 39aea029-6545-417d-9534-8b8bcbc892aa Date and Time: 12/6/2010 Read more
WebApp vs Site collection. This is a confusing issue: Basically a WebApp is a container for sites. Each Web Application must contain at least one Site Collection. Each Site Collection can contain more than one site A site is usually shown as a tab in a Sharepoint page. This applies Read more
Background: I am a Sharepoint 2010 novice but I have spent considerable time banging through 2010 in recent days and below is information I will need in the future to perform installs at other client sites. Perhaps you will be interested in some of this. If you want more of my Read more
I am a Sharepoint 2010 novice but I have spent considerable time banging through 2010 in recent days and below is information I will need in the future to perform installs at other client sites. Perhaps you will be interested in some of this. If you want more of my tips Read more
Ok… this is what I blew my morning on and man that is not cool! (scroll immediately to the bottom if you just want the easy fix!) I created a new Webapp and Site Collection in a fresh Sharepoint Foundation 2010 server running Server 2008 R2 Standard 64 bit and found Read more