Several people have found the bug that existed in setting a custom access denied page (or other custom layouts pages) in SharePoint 2013. The PowerShell cmdlet Set-SPCustomLayoutsPage “should” set the new custom page. However, it never worked: http://blog.randomdust.com/index.php/2013/07/custom-access-denied-page-in-sharepoint-2013/ http://deepinsharepoint.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/fix-custom-access-denied-page-in-sharepoint-2013/ Good news is, this has been fixed in April 2014 Cumulative Update(CU). We did find though, that there is one key … Read More
SharePoint 2013 Custom My Site Master Page – 401 Unauthorized
[Update 2014-02-18]: I spoke too soon, after some further testing, it turned out it wasn’t the CU that ended up resolving the problem (although it may still be a contributor…I’ll need to find another environment to do some testing). I also found some features that weren’t activated/deactivated the same between the environments. After setting all the features the same and … Read More
SharePoint List REST Query filter contains
I was recently venturing into the world of SharePoint Development using REST. I wanted to do a query for list items containing a particular string, rather than just equals a string. I had some trouble coming up with the solution at the time (this was about 7 months ago) and just never got around to writing up a blog post. … Read More
SharePoint 2013 Prerequisite installer, Error with .NET 4.0 and Windows Server 2012
This week I was building a SharePoint 2013 farm for a client. We were using the AutoSPInstaller (Awesome tool!). However, we got ourselves caught in an infinite loop. Essential, the installer would start, try to install the prerequisites, throw the errors: WARNING: 2013-08-07 18:19:01 – Error when enabling ASP.NET v4.0.30319 WARNING: 2013-08-07 18:19:01 – Error: The tool was unable to … Read More
Adding SharePoint 2013 Calendar to Office 365 P1 Public Site
If you’ve ever tried to add a Calendar to your Publish SharePoint site running on the Office 365 P1 plan, you’ve probably noticed that it isn’t an option. However, with a little bit of work, you can get around it. Sign into your Public Facing Site, go to Site Settings and Site Content. Add a “Custom List” App Give you … Read More
Hide column header in a SharePoint list web part
I was working on a site today and I added a list web part to the site. I wanted the information to be displayed in two columns so I created a new view using Boxed, no labels as the style for the view. The only problems was the column headers that end up at the top that really don’t make … Read More
Hide Web Part Headers with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
[Update] – I ussually don’t update previous blog posts, but in this case it wasn’t worth writing a new one. The following steps also work for hiding web part headers in SharePoint 2013. A while a go a write a short post on how to hide web part headers in SharePoint 2007. Recently I had some inquire how to do … Read More
Remove the Scroll Bar from a Custom SharePoint Web Part
Normally this should be pretty straight forward. However, today I had a custom Silverlight web part that had the vertical scroll bar appear whenever I set it to a fixed height. It wasn’t that the content was too large for the fix height, it just felt I needed the scroll bar and no matter how large I set the height, … Read More
Orchard, Intelligink and Baby
It’s been a while since I posted anything, so although this won’t be anything directly related to SharePoint, I figured I would write a brief update about what I’ve been up what’s going on. The New Blog Some of you have already noticed, or may be noticing right now, that I’ve switch my blog hosting. I used to be using … Read More