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Notes from the field
Add a Staff Notebook to Microsoft Teams
If you are using the EDU SKU for Office 365 you have been able to enjoy creating Staff Notebooks...
Date: 08/23/2018
SharePoint User Adoption
You have deployed SharePoint and now what. Here is a guide to gaining better user adoption within...
Date: 06/25/2018
PowerBI and SharePoint 2013 Search Results
Knowing that the SharePoint 2013 Search API is all REST based, we can user PowerBI to retrieve the...
Date: 06/14/2018
BI and SharePoint Onine
Business Intelligence (BI) and SharePoint online are maturing to the point that it's becoming much...
Date: 04/12/2018
Updating SharePoint 2013 User Information
In SharePoint 2013 there are a couple ways to configure how user information is updated from Active...
Date: 11/07/2017
Supporting TLS 1.2 in SharePoint 2013
In March of 2014 the .NET framework 4.6 was updated to provide support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2. This is...
Date: 11/03/2017
Modifying the Hover Panel in a Document Library
SharePoint 2013 introduced hover panels to search and document libraries. Hover panels provide a...
Date: 07/15/2017
Removing items from the quick launch
When you create a new site in SharePoint, various templates are used that have been configured to...
Date: 07/10/2017
List Item Threshold Explained
Many of us already know the story with the 5,000 item limit with lists/libraries and some strategies...
Date: 05/22/2017
Launch forms in a dialog window
In SharePoint 2013, by default when you create a new list or library the new, edit and display forms...
Date: 04/26/2017
Web Part Page Title Bar property not displaying
The title in a SharePoint 2013 web part page should display the value of the Title property in the...
Date: 03/17/2017
InfoPath - State Service Application is required
When using InfoPath in your SharePoint 2013 environment, if you don't have the State Service...
Date: 02/15/2017
List all the timer jobs using PowerShell
Here is a useful script that will retrieve all the SharePoint timer jobs filtering by the schedule...
Date: 01/12/2017
SharePoint 2013 install error if the .NET 4.6.X framework is installed
When installing the pre-requisites for SharePoint 2013 you may receive an error during the...
Date: 01/06/2017
Error Creating a new Web Application
When you're creating a new web application, you may encounter the following error:...
Date: 01/06/2017
Update a users name in SharePoint
When a user has a name change in Active Directory, the User Profile Service does not update the...
Date: 01/04/2017
Check to see if a managed path exists using PowerShell
Here is a handy PowerShell function that will check to see if a managed path for a web application...
Date: 01/03/2017
Truncate a SharePoint database log file
Since SharePoint is heavily dependent on SQL Server to store not only content but configuration...
Date: 12/30/2016
SQL Server Disk Allocation Size
SQL Server is a major component of any SharePoint installation simply because it stores all the...
Date: 12/27/2016
Setup SSRS on a multi server SharePoint farm
In an earlier post I provided step by step instructions on how to install SQL Server Reporting...
Date: 12/22/2016
Setup SSRS on a single SharePoint server farm
Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in a SharePoint environment requires several...
Date: 12/21/2016
Change IIS Web Application Settings
Once a new web application is created within IIS, changing the settings can be accomplished through...
Date: 12/20/2016