A few great SharePoint references
I’m sorry that this week’s blog is just a list of my thoughts on a few really great tools that…
Category: SharePoint Development
Central Admin running with vanity URL and on SSL
Running SharePoint sites on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is critical to information security and SharePoint Central Administration is no exception.…
Getting Distributed Cache started on SharePoint 2016 Beta 2
First of all I’d like to thank mvan for the post located here: http://www.sharepointconsultant.ch/2013/03/07/adding-a-local-sharepoint-2013-development-server-as-a-cache-host-to-appfabrics-cache-cluster/ please read this before continuing, as…
Modify the view of SharePoint Discussion board.
NOTE: These instructions only apply to SharePoint farms that are Pre July 2014 CU, if you are working with…
Change the look of Central Admin
You can change the look of Central admin using one of the OOB themes by navigating to the Change the…
HNSC is recommended best practice
Straight from Microsoft – USE HOST NAMED SITE COLLECTIONS – recommended in SharePoint 2010 and preferred in SharePoint 2013 Main…
SPCommon.png image tattoo on my page – get it off
If you ever run into an issue where your site is showing the spcommon.png, as shown here: Follow these…
Creating Host Named Site Collections
The following is based on the Exam Ref 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 by Troy Lanphier. Check…
Sometimes you have to be forceful
When a solution was not correctly removed from a farm, features will be left behind, because they were not deactivated…
A few Random development tricks – slighted trickery
CSS to block quicklaunch etc. <style> .ms-quicklaunch { display:none; } .ms-navframe { display: none; } .ms-globalTitleArea { display: none; }…
An error has occurred after removal of an extended zone
Let’s say you’ve applied the advice from unextending an extended zone and are now either getting a blank page after re-using the the…
Enable and Use Developer Dashboard to see how your page loads and view metrics.
Pre-requisites: Site-collection administrator Follow these steps, or ask your admin, to enable the developer dashboard in on demand mode: (green-can…
Exporting and Importing – Cannot import site due to wrong template
When you’re migrating sites using export-spweb and import-spweb, you might receive an error message on the import, when reviewing the import…
SharePoint Virtual Labs and SP 2010 vs 2013
Sorry to be blogurgitating this week. Here’s a really good technet site with a load of virtual labs: SharePoint Server…
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