For those of you who have been around SharePoint PowerShell for a while, this cmdlet may be old new, for those of you that are new, you’re missing out and for others this may just be a good reminder about this cmdlet. While it doesn’t do anything flashy, in my opinion, it is one of the most useful cmdlets in … Read More
Running a SharePoint Dev or Test Environments in Azure
So here it goes, I’m officially committing to writing this series of blog posts. I thought about doing it all in one post and quickly realize this was way to long to be a single post. So, I’m going to break this up into a series of blog posts. Currently this is what I’m thinking (although it’s subject to change … Read More
Display Link Lists in the SharePoint 2013 Content Query Web Part
There are lots of articles out there about how to display a Link List in the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. However, today I had to set one up for SharePoint 2013 and things have changed slightly. First of all, what hasn’t change is the XSL you can use to create a new display … Read More
SharePoint 2013 Excel File Won’t Open in Browser
SharePoint 2013 Excel File Won’t Open in Browser While I had this problem in SharePoint 2013, this could also apply to SharePoint 2010. Another detail to note, especially when you look at the screen shots, is this was SharePoint 2010 upgrade to 2013 and the visual upgrade hadn’t been performed yet. I’m honestly not sure if this happens with every … Read More
Incoming Email Stuck in Drop Folder? PowerShell to the Rescue!
I had a weird issue a few months back working with incoming email in SharePoint 2010. I went through the whole process of enabling incoming, setting up the proper connectors in Exchange, and creating a list with an incoming email address. Everything appeared to be configured and working properly. However, emails were getting stuck in the drop folder on my … 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
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
SharePoint 2010 with Office 2013 Installed on Server
Just a quick blog post, if you have a SharePoint Development Server that you happen to have installed Office 2013 on, you may run into issues when installing a Cumulative Update. I recently installed Office 2013 on my SharePoint 2010 Development Server. Tonight I went to update to the February 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010. The installation worked just … Read More
Error running SharePoint Configuration Wizard on KB2687564 – October 2012 CU
Over this past weekend I was helping a client with some issues with the 4-server SharePoint 2010 farm. As part of the process we decided to go ahead and put the October 2012 CU into their farm. I know, test in a dev/test environment first, we didn’t follow best practice. We were in a bit of an emergency/time crunch and … Read More