We have a small SharePoint Foundation 2010 site here, which contains some information which we wanted to protect. The size of the site did not particularly warrant the purchase of a license for any specialist backup software, so we were looking for a way to back it up, send some notifications and retain a specific
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SharePoint 2013: Renaming the Database Server
There are a number of posts on this online, but none of them exactly described the steps that I needed to take in order to rename the server that was hosting the SQL databases for our SharePoint installation. I was in the fortunate position that the system had not yet gone live, so rebooting and
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Sharepoint 2010: Unable to Display This Web Part. Error while executing web part: System.StackOverflowException: Operation caused a stack overflow.
I have got a live testing version of a SharePoint 2010 based room & reservations bookings template (which I promise I will one day finish!). Randomly, users were getting an error on their screens though. Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML
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Could Not Open file.doc from SharePoint Server 2010
I have found a couple of solutions to this on the web, but nothing like this. We have SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010. I was browsing to a file located on My Site, but other documents . Excel or Word would open and then i would be told: Could not open filename.doc You would
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Combining SharePoint 2010 and Windows Media Services
This may already be covered elsewhere, but I am writing it up anyway. We use SharePoint 2010. We also have a lot of video content, shared amongst many staff, of which presently there are multiple copies of the content scattered around the network. The aim was to remove all these duplicate copies of ‘static’ data,
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ISA 2004: Configure HTTP Greyed Out
To set the scene, we have just created a WSS 3 site using forms based authentication. Published it through ISA 2004. Browsed to the site and we get this error. Following Microsoft’s guidance and information on various blogs, it suggetsed to disable the Verify Normalisation and the Block High Bit Characters options in the HTTP
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XSL:Sort by Date Time
If you are stuck trying to sort XML date by date/time then this snippet of code may help you. Been stuck in head first into some XSL scripting, so learning at quite a rate. <xsl:sort select=”ddwrt:FormatDateTime(@DateTimeField, number($lcid), ‘yyyyMMddHHmm’)” /> In the above line, @DateTimeField is the name of the field to sort, $lcid is your
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Room and Equipment Reservations
Right, after an extremely frustrating day trying to get my head around XSL – something I never want to repeat again – I am near to having completing a re-hashed template of the Room and Equipment Reservations template originally provided by Microsoft for SharePoint 2007. Following the post by Samantha – http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2010/08/18/sharepoint-2010-products-upgrade-and-the-fabulous-40-application-templates.aspx – which explains that
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SharePoint Search – Access Denied
Having a bit of a SharePoint day. Had recently noticed that no People were being returned in search results, even if you type in their name exactly. Went through the check list of possible causes: Default Content Access account permissions to the User Profile Service (Read Profiles for Search Crawler) Full Read permissions on the
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization
Just found two guides, which between them have saved our SharePoint farm from the scrapheap. The first – and most important for this: http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx A great resource – detailed, and very nearly worked. However, because we were not starting with a fresh install, as it suggests, I am guessing there were some remnants left over
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