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SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint List Items (in Root and in...
SharePoint PowerShell How To Series - Foreword I often find myself scratching around the local drive of my development machines for remnants of PowerShell scripts to generate list & libraries in...
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How to bulk upload/copy a folder structure and files to SharePoint
So you’ve got a bunch of files nicely arranged in a folder structure sitting on your computer or a network drive that you want to copy up to a SharePoint library and preserve the directory structure....
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How to fix issue with opening Visual Studio solution from tfspreview.com by...
This problem arises if you were using Team Foundation Services (TFS) Online while it was still in preview. You will be accessing TFS on a URL such as: https://mycompany.tfspreview.com A recent change...
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Getting Started: The Basics of Using PowerShell with SharePoint
I’m a SharePoint guy, and certainly no PowerShell expert. I know enough PowerShell to get things done in SharePoint from time to time. I can often go months without using PowerShell and talking to...
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Is the SharePoint brand going away?
The big push from Microsoft over the last few years has been towards the cloud, and in the SharePoint area this means Microsoft wants you on Office 365 instead of on-premises SharePoint servers. None...
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Running Fiddler with OnePlaceMail – Fixing “The requested site does not...
Here’s a workaround to get Fiddler working with OnePlaceMail and SharePoint 2013 where you normally get the following error message in OnePlaceMail as soon as Fiddler is enabled and capturing traffic:...
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Beware SharePoint 2013 Search Results and the ListUrl Property
I was recently looking into the results returned by SharePoint 2013 under the scenario of alternate access mappings. Essentially this boils down to the same SharePoint content being available on...
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More out-of-the-box ways to get Email into SharePoint (2013 and Office 365)
This is a continuation of an article I wrote back at the beginning of 2012 Five out-of-the-box ways to get Email into SharePoint. Since then we have seen the launch of SharePoint 2013 and also more...
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Getting Started: What are .ps1 files and how do you use them?
What is a .ps1 file? If you want to save a series of PowerShell commands in a file so you can run them again later then you effectively creating a PowerShell script. This is simply a text file with a...
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How to install/enable the WebClient (WebDAV) Service on Windows Server 2012...
Are you having trouble opening/editing files stored in SharePoint, especially non Office files on Windows Server 2012? By default the WebClient service is not installed on Windows Server 2012. Without...
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Fix SharePoint Performance Issue with ‘Open in Explorer’& opening non-Office...
I was recently working with documents stored in SharePoint (Office 365 to be exact) and was seeing poor performance when trying to open file types with applications other than Office. At first I just...
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Office Lens: The simple and free way to create an Outlook Contact from a...
I’ve found Office Lens to be an awesome app for Windows Phone. Recently the app was enhanced to allow for the specific task of scanning business cards. So how does it work? Simply fire up the free...
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How to fix frequent WebDav “path not valid” errors
After experiencing some intermittent “path not valid” and very frustrating errors trying to open different types of files from my SharePoint server I’d had enough. I had to know what was going on....
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How to: Enable outlining (collapsible statement blocks) for C# code in Visual...
I’m often modifying existing C# code in Visual Studio and find myself trying to line up opening and closing braces and trying to figure out what level of nesting I’m currently at. It’s easy when the...
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SharePoint CAML query examples of working with People and Groups
Some of the more elegant and powerful solution built with SharePoint have some level of personalization for the user. Here are some example CAML queries that allow you to query a SharePoint list and...
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How to enable “Hey Cortana” with Windows Phone 8.1 Update in Australia
Currently only USA and UK Windows Phones can access Cortana Beta. Some other countries such as Australia have access to Cortana Alpha. The “Hey Cortana” feature which allows you to start Cortana...
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Preparing for Microsoft Ignite 2015
The excitement is starting to build as the Microsoft technology conference of the year is almost upon us. I feel this year is going to be a first time experience for all attendees. We’ve got many...
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My favourite announcements from BUILD 2015 (Day 1)
Microsoft’s really long Build developer keynote, condensed into 2 minutes http://mashable.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-build-keynote-video/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link Welcoming Developers to Windows...
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Photos from Microsoft Ignite 2015 in Chicago
As the dust settles on the first Microsoft Ignite conference and the tech crowd disperses from Chicago I look over these photos and think I’ll remember this conference as much for the character of the...
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New OnePlaceLive Scenarios Blog Series
With the recent launch of the OnePlaceLive product, I’ve commenced writing a series of articles on the OnePlace Solutions website. This series of articles is designed to introduce the OnePlaceLive...
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