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Moving a OneNote notebook to SharePoint 2010
A customer was having trouble with moving a OneNote notebook to SharePoint 2010 so they could collaborate on it together so I thought I would do a quick post on the process. Creating a local notebook...
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SharePoint 2010 Roles and Skills Matrix Infographic (Structuring a SharePoint...
Structuring a SharePoint Practise – the infographic version I’ve been thinking about putting this graphic together for a while now, ever since I got my copy of The SharePoint 2010 Handbook a few months...
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Outlook 2010 won’t open attachments, right click nothing happens, double...
While on customer site today I got involved in a small support issue with attachments not opening in Outlook 2010. Right clicking on attachments did nothing, double clicking on attachments did nothing....
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Office 2013 Preview & Windows 8: OneNote on Office 365 (SharePoint) won’t...
So the last few days, in some stolen moments between projects I’ve been setting up a collaboration portal for our customers and us to share information, e.g. meeting notes, invoices and various other...
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Stop Excel documents opening in the browser on SharePoint
I had to spend a little time today stopping Excel documents opening in the browser. Following the advice on the web didn’t really help and I was sure I had done the steps required. I was starting to...
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Create a SharePoint group with permissions and add an AD group to it
Requirement Create a SharePoint group in a site collection Assign that group an existing permission for Site Permissions list Add an Active Directory group to that SharePoint group Read the values...
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Edition downgrade for SharePoint Search Server Express 2010 from SQL 2008 R2...
This is just a quick post to highlight issues with two SharePoint Search Server Express 2010 databases when downgrading from SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise to SQL 2012 Express (although applies to any Express...
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QR Codes in a SharePoint List
Connecting the physical and digital world with SharePoint 2010 and QR codes. I’m on-site in Vietnam with a customer who is starting their SharePoint journey as well the wider journey to becoming a...
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Create Search Server Express 2010 slipstream installation media
While reinstalling Search Server Express 2010 for a customer I found there wasn’t a hughe amount of help out there for how to slipstream Search Server Express 2010. The process isn’t really different...
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Mount-SPContentDatabase and Test-SPContentDatabase fail with either Invalid...
While trying to restore some SharePoint 2010 “content” databases I kept on getting errors about invalid objects… Found some links talking about incorrect SharePoint versions but as it turned out that...
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Hide SharePoint calculated columns from display form with PowerShell
While creating a column which hyperlinked through to another list I’d created a few calculated columns which were showing up in the display form of items. You can’t hide calculated columns in the same...
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Free SharePoint 2010 Foundation add-ons everyone should have
We have several customers who use SharePoint 2010 Foundation and are constantly trying to get the most out of the product, envious of what SharePoint standard and enterprise can do, frustrated by...
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Site users web part “add new users” link missing
Recently a customer reported that on some team sites that the “Add new user” link had disappeared off the Site Users web part. Assumptions were initially that the permissions had somehow changed. This...
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