SharePoint file locked for edit
I saw this in Word live collaboration only last week but it also occurs in Excel. It appears to happen when saving the file and the users Upload Center is …
SharePoint 2013 Make the document icon in a document library work
We have a customer who is using Colligo Engage for Outlook, uploading emails to SharePoint Online and tagging them with some additional metadata for other departments to keep track of …
Creating reports from SharePoint lists
Summary This post covers creating custom reports from SharePoint lists in Excel by joining SharePoint lists together. It specifically addresses the issues with People Picker and Lookup columns returning the row …
SharePoint Online – how to view previous versions of a file without restoring
SharePoint’s user interface can be misleading at times. So when asked how you view previous version of a document without having to make it the most recent version , …
Sharing SharePoint online with external user error “Issue Type: Partner User Invalid”
We’ve now invited about 30 external people into our SharePoint Online customer sites and have seen this enigmatic error pop up twice.
Enable anonymous read access to a Document Library in Office 365 public sites
No, no. Not that type of anonymous access. I’m sure this is of no interest to them. When using an Office 365 public site and you create a document library …
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 …
Our technical boundaries
As a business we get a large chunk of our work through partner organisations who are looking to fulfil projects but they either have capacity shortfalls or lack a particular …
Office 365 SharePoint Online access by an external user
This blog post covers the process you need to follow to accept an invitation to a SharePoint online site when you are an external user, e.g. being invited to your …
Tips and steps for creating a SQL Alias for SharePoint to a new SQL server.
Some quick steps that I take to configure a SQL alias for SharePoint when moving from one SQL server to another.