SharePains by Microsoft MVP Pieter Veenstra
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All posts about SharePoint 2010
Quite a while ago I developed tool to monitor SharePoint logs. Since I developed this it’s been available for download…
Currently I’m implementing an appraisal process for one of my customers using Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms. My initial thought…
Last week one of my customers wanted me to implement drag and drop to update a status field for one…
How do you display the first set of characters of a Publishing Page in a display template? Display templates I…
In the many years that I worked with Microsoft products I have liked using 3rd party add-ons. Cimaware AccessFIX Fix…
Today I upgraded my development SharePoint 2013 farm and things didn’t go as they should. The installation of the update…
Uninstall Solution I’m trying to uninstall a sandbox solution in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell. I’m using the following cmdlet Uninstall-SPUserSolution…
Changing Default Views Sergei Sergeev’s post about changing default views helped a bit here However I found that when doing…
Adding a webpart Today I tried to add a web part to a page using the following code: ListViewWebPart webpart…
Update Features Today I needed to add some additional fields to content types. I heard about upgrade features before, but…
Content type failed to be syndicated Yesterday I copied my content database from production to my test environment using a…
SharePoint alerts not working Recently our email alerts stopped working in SharePoint 2013. Or maybe I should say recently we…
While I looked through error messages in the SharePoint ULS logs I found the following weird, typos and other unnecessary…
Today I tried to copy lists including their data from my customer’s environment to my development environment. I needed to…
Internet Explorer 11 giving Faulting application My Internet Explorer 11 keeps giving me the following crash when I visit a…
I have seen quite a few articles mentioning Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell lately. But what is the best way to load this…
Recently I wrote a PowerShell script to collect all Critical, Unexpected and Monitorable messages in the ULS logs. SharePoint ULS…
Connecting SharePoint to AS400 To connect SharePoint 2013 with data on an AS400 there are two options available: 1. Connect…
My Elements.xml looked like this: <?xmlversion=“1.0“encoding=“utf-8“?> <Elementsxmlns=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/“> <WebTemplate Name=“General” Title=“General site” Description=“General web template for sites” BaseTemplateID=“1” BaseTemplateName=“BLANKINTRANET” BaseConfigurationID=“0” DisplayCategory=“My…
Something new today. I’m trying to create a contact us form in SharePoint ( Easy, I know how to do…
Recently for a contact list form I used the DataFormWebPart. First I created a custom list then added the Data…
What do you do when you have a list with custom forms (editform.aspx, dispform.aspx and newform.aspx) and you want to…
My Problem I tried many different option to access a list in Central Administration from a web part in my…
When I deploy a content query web part (CQWP) through my site definition I’m getting the following error: Unable to…