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 …
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, …
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 …
Mount-SPContentDatabase and Test-SPContentDatabase fail with either Invalid object name ‘Sites’ or ‘Webs’
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 …
Edition downgrade for SharePoint Search Server Express 2010 from SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise to SQL 2012 Express
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 …
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 …
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 …
Office 2013 Preview & Windows 8: OneNote on Office 365 (SharePoint) won’t open in OneNote client and won’t sync
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 …
When cliconfg.exe didn’t work for changing the SharePoint DB
Everyone knows that using SQL connection alias’s are a pretty good idea, as are A records in DNS for when you want to be able swap around your SQL server …