There’s a really easy way to get the name of a feature that SharePoint requests from its provided GUID. For…
Category Archives: SharePoint Server
How to: Create a SP2010 view filtered by Group
We all know that it is easy to create a view that only displays list items to specific users. You…
How to: Troubleshoot “Server Error in ‘/’ Application.” error after SP2010 SP1 update
In case you just installed SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1, or one of the new August/September 2011 updates is giving…
Quick tip: Troubleshoot “Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.”
If you’re trying to restore a SharePoint 2007 backup file of a site from one SharePoint installation to another, you…
How to: Troubleshoot “Error: Access Denied” SharePoint message
Say one of your users sends you a screenshot proving that they do not have access to a web site…
How to: Rename a Web Application in SharePoint 2010
Today, I opened up my Central Admin on my test environment, only to be greeted by numerous web applications that…
How to: Create a SP2007 Site Collection Template in VS2008 in XML only
So, the other day, I got a curious request. I was to provide a new site collection template, a custom…
Quick tip: Add a “Create New Document” link on a page outside a document library in SP2007
If you want to display a link that allows you to create new items in a SharePoint 2007 document/form library,…
Quick tip: Publish an InfoPath 2010 form template for use with SharePoint (or, how to troubleshoot a malfunctioning web form)
I tried to publish an InfoPath template the other day and ran into an issue: my form was only being…
Quick tip: Add new property in SP2010 site collection property bag
The property bag of a site collection is a hashtable keeping key-value pairs. You can add as many as you…