Here’s a shortlist of some useful troubleshooting techniques, divided into two sections according to the two main types of MS Office Installations: MSI: “Traditional” Windows installer Click-to-Run: Office 365...
Read MoreI’m re-introducing the Windows PSR (Problems Steps Recorder) as one of those cool tools we...
Read MoreIn order to change a Managed Path for a site collection we need to backup and restore that site collection to the new Managed Path. I attempted to backup and restore a site collection today, with the goal of changing the...
Read MoreIn this post I will explain how to delete a SharePoint 2010 service application database for a service application that was previously removed/deleted. When you remove your service application, you may see on on the page Central...
Read MorePatching SharePoint servers, you’ve probably run into the situation where you try to run PSConfig to upgrade a server and it fails on step three. Looking at the error logs, you’ll may see SPUpdatedConcurrencyException is the...
Read MoreGreat news, the greatest little open source web debugger, Fiddler, has now been aquired by the great vendor of .NET controls, Telerik. Expect some nice upgrades to Fiddler soon, and yes, it will remain free. Full story:...
Read MoreWe ran into an issue with some custom code that was doing a System.IO.File.Copy from a WebDav (SharePoint) to a UNC network share. Everything was working great until the file sizes we were transferring hit approx. 47MB in size....
Read MoreSharePoint is a big product and there’s a lot of people in the world working on it.. so it’s funny to be working on a specific issue, then coming full circle and either Bing’ing upon your own old blog post, or,...
Read MoreIf you try to publish a Nintex Workflow and get the following error, check your SharePoint transaction logs – they may have run out of disk space. “The URL ‘{file reference.xml}’ is invalid. It may refer...
Read MoreWe have experimented quite a bit with having IE9 Compatibility mode turned on in custom SharePoint 2010 Branding. Out of the Box SP 2010 Masterpages come with the following tag:...
Read MoreFirefox does have issues when being used with SharePoint, let’s ID the known issues and workarounds: Feature Limitation Connect to Outlook, Connect to Office, and Sync to SharePoint Workspace Works with an ActiveX...
Read MoreTrying to import an Excel file in as SharePoint 2010 List resulted in the error: The specified file is not a valid spreadsheet or contains no data to import Double-checked the spreadsheet for formula errors, consistency etc....
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