[SharePoint 2010] Specifying Which Server a Custom Timer Job Will Run On
By default timer jobs in SharePoint are scheduled for all servers in a SharePoint farm and whichever server picks up the job first is the one that runs it. There may be times when creating a custom...
View Article[SharePoint 2007/2010/2013] Identify Version of SharePoint Programmatically
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has introduced a small monkey wrench in where solution files get deployed when mapped to the LAYOUTS (/_layouts) folder. Files in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 would simply...
View Article[SharePoint 2013] No More In-Place Upgrades
With SharePoint 2013 Microsoft has decided to remove the option for in-place upgrades from the previous version. This means that upgrading from previous versions of SharePoint will require building a...
View Article[SharePoint 2010 / 2013] Display Messages Using the SharePoint Status Bar...
SharePoint 2010 and 2013 have a very useful control for displaying status messages, the SPPageStatusSetter. The SPPageStatusSetter can be used to provide the end user messages in the same fashion that...
View Article[SharePoint 2010] Updates are currently disallowed on GET requests. To allow...
I was working on a WCF web service that is hosted by SharePoint 2010 that provisions a users My Site and I kept getting this error message when trying to run the service: Updates are currently...
View Article[SharePoint 2010] JavaScript Errors in sp.ui.rte.js and sp.ui.rte.debug.js
In SharePoint 2010, there is a bug in the SP.UI.RTE.js file (and it’s debug version) that causes a JavaScript error in a few different situations. For myself, it was occurring when using the...
View Article[SharePoint 2013] Restore the Breadcrumb (Navigate Up) Navigation
Update: I have packaged this solution up in a SharePoint solution. You can get the packaged solution and the source code here: [SharePoint 2013] Restore the Breadcrumb (Navigate Up) Navigation Part 2....
View Article[SharePoint 2010] Service Pack 2 Available for Download
Microsoft has just released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint 2010. It is available for download here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687453. Service Pack 2 adds support for Windows Server 2012. It is...
View Article[SharePoint 2010] Fixing the web part on the blog site home page
After removing the blog posts web part on the home page of a SharePoint 2010 blog site, you may have noticed that there isn’t a simple way to get it back. There isn’t a web part in the Web Part Gallery...
View Article[SharePoint 2016] IT Preview Available and Backwards Compatible
Today Microsoft has made available an IT Preview of SharePoint Server 2016. Head over to the Microsoft website to download the ISO. After playing with the IT Preview for a few hours, here are my...
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