DIWUG Article
?A new DIWUG magazine has just been published with an article I wrote, really proud to have my first article in DIWUG. Download DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine #15 (eReader Edition) Download DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine #15
Continue ReadingDownload script for Channel9 Content
I have created a script to download all or specific content from Channel9 by using there RSS feed for a particular event. The script is inspired by a script that was published for the SharePoint conference in 2014. I have updated the script to work with any Channel9 RSS feed from an event. The script…
Continue ReadingSharePoint Online default sites
For all the people that used SharePoint online knows that when you start using you get 4 site collections or is it 5? I have been using my environment for some time now. Let’s find out. First start with the browser: The sites in the red are the default sites. The one with the full…
Continue ReadingChange the default title within SharePoint
Today I got the question to change the default title of SharePoint at the top of the page They wanted this default text “SharePoint” to be the title of the site they are. This text is inside a delegate control called “SuiteBarBrandingDelegate”. Now we can create a delegate control that changes the text and install…
Continue ReadingContent Type Hub error after upgrade to SP1
Last week we upgraded our test environment with SP1 of SharePoint 2013. After some testing we found that publishing of a Content Type went wrong with the following error. With a quick search on the Correlation ID with PowerShell Merge-SPLogFile-PathC:\proxylog.log-Correlatione9a8929c-5756-20e8-2a9f-e38b648bc237 We found the following message Failed to get term store for proxy ‘Managed Metadata Service…
Continue ReadingForce renewal of Content Types
This week we had an issue where we had some differences in the Content Types that where pushed from the Content Type hub. We wanted to make sure all Content Types where updated in the next push. After some digging around on the internet I found that there is a property in the SPWeb.Properties called…
Continue ReadingUpgrade Server 2012 to Server 2012 R2 with SharePoint 2013 SP1
With the release of SharePoint 2013 SP1, Server 2012 R2 is now supported. With this release I wanted to try to upgrade my dev environment to Server 2012 R2. My dev machine has all roles, so AD, SQL and SharePoint. The steps below I used to upgrade the machine. Install SharePoint SP1 as you usually…
Continue ReadingSPC14 Sessions
All the sessions of the SharePoint Conference 2014 are now available on Channel9. Like many other people I like to watch some of the sessions I missed during the conference. I also do not like to watch this from my laptop so I wanted to download the sessions I would like to see. After a…
Continue ReadingUnexpected logout with SharePoint 2013 and ADFS
The last couple of weeks I was creating and configuring 3 SharePoint 2013 farm (Test, acceptance and Production) on Windows Azure. We did the provisioning, installation and configuration with PowerShell. This way we had the basics within 1 week running. Because we are on Windows Azure and the company did not want their AD extended…
Continue ReadingUndeclare In-Place records
Last week I had a question to remove a document library with items that where records. Then you have an option to remove the record status of every document by hand, this is ok for a few items but in this case there were a few thousand items and only some of them had the…
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