Storytelling With Analytics

Today marks exactly 12 years since I started this blog. My first post went up on 3rd October 2008 and the posts that followed went on to shape my career with opportunities am so thankful for to everyone that gave them to me.  Unfortunately, in the last 4 years, I took a back seat from blogging here and later on did a slight career pivot, from SharePoint into the world of data engineering and data science. I had thought long and hard about retiring this blog because I had initially dedicated it to a vertical field of SharePoint, at least that's what it was known for anyway. However, I realized that I can still continue to use it, albeit in a new field being data engineering and data science which I've embraced over the last 4 years, since my last post, while at the same time retain my blogging journey. In there is a message as well, to those that might be looking for hope, wondering whether the pivot is even possible.  As part of rebranding this blog and making it fit for purpo...

Hello SharePoint Community. Don't we just love sharing code sometimes? Well I figured this might help someone somewhere in the community. First off, some basic house keeping. Are you still running #Microsoft #SharePoint Server 2010? Are you looking at migrating/upgrading to a more recent version of SharePoint but you would like to first clean up your environment and potentially reduce the size of your content databases? Did you activate version history on some of your document libraries? Did you forget to set the maximum limit of versions to retain on some of your documents libraries? Do you wonder why some document libraries have grown so much in size and yet they don't have a lot of documents stored in them?

Hello folks, its been a while since my last post, but that is about to change. I recently spoke at the Digital Transformation Conference in Cape Town, to our esteemed Western Cape customers and potential customers, on the Top 10 SharePoint 2016 features and in a nutshell, I would like to share with you what those are. By the way, the RTM version of SharePoint 2016 came out last Tuesday the 15th March 2016.

During installation of SharePoint 2013, you may come across the above error. A SQL 2008 configuration setting required for this was only a recommendation in the previous versions of SharePoint installations but now is a prerequisite for SharePoint 2013 installation. To configure it, here is how:

After a migration and upgrade of SharePoint from 2010 to 2013, where you had the web applications created in classic authentication, you might want to now convert them to SharePoint 2013's claims authentication. To do so, here is how:

As you may already be aware, when you create a new web application in SharePoint 2013, it by default creates in claims authentication mode. If you are under going a migration and upgrade from SP2010 to SP2013 and you would first want to create classic authentication web apps to attach the DBs to, here is how:

You might have already noticed that "Sign in as different user" by default does not show in a new installation of SharePoint 2013, here is what you can do to bring it back:

If this error comes up in the Search Service Application Administrative Status page

In SharePoint 2013, the Distributed Cache service can end up in a non-functioning or unrecoverable state if you do not follow the procedures that are listed in this...

3 Important tips to note when creating calculated columns that display color coding, robots, hyperlinks, that are generated on SharePoint page rander. - When you place your JavaScript code in your content editor web part, always remember to move the webpart to the bottom of the page. Somehow its like SharePoint Pages load webparts bottom-up. - The HTML codings in columns don't work on personal views, only on public views. - The HTML codings in columns don't work when your view is has groupings and the view loads with groupings collapsed. Cheers.

The new CAML Query Builder now allows you among other new features to query via Client Object Model. You can download it from here Thanks to the Belux Information Worker User Group for sharing. Happy coding!

Its out, and you can download it from here Note that some functionality has been discontinued, find the initial list here Enjoy!

The June 2012 Cummulative update for SharePoint is out, find it here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2012/07/03/june-2012-cu-for-sharepoint-2010-has-been-released.aspx Remember to have SP1 installed before running this CU. Thanks to Stefan Goßner

What a great event it was! Great sessions! Great venue and setup! Great speakers! Thumbs up to the Chief Organizer ( Veronique Palmer from Lets Collaborate ) and team! So I was a speaker at the 2012 SharePoint Saturday, for the second time (first was 2011 SP Saturday Cape Town and this time it was Johannesburg), giving a session on Stripping Search Service Application - Level 400 (Managed Properties). Thanks to the great audience, and as promised, the slidedeck is ready for download, so is the source code that I used during the demo. Once again, lets keep the interaction going, via twitter , email and LinkedIn Happy days!

I was this one time faced in a situation where list items that should have kicked off a K2 workflow automatically, had been created but the workflows had not started. Firstly, the reason the workflow could not start was because...

Thought I could share this one. I was creating a SharePoint 2010 Project Web database subsite and was faced with an error message " The formula contains a syntax error or is not supported. "

After configuring User Profile Synchronization, I found that SharePoint People Search could still not work as the the content source for the user profiles was being denied access.

This one time I was trying to programmatically modify an SPListCollection, and I stabled into the error " Collection was modified; Enumeration operation may not execute ". This error came about during the code block that looped through the SPListCollection and attempting to update the collection.

This one time I was trying to figure out why every time I created a SharePoint lookup field, be it programmatically or via the UI in SharePoint 2010 and 2007, which looks up to another SharePoint list field, it would always have a value "none" in it when in use. So now I really wanted to eliminate that value...

Hello folks. Once upon a time, I was trying to create SharePoint Task list Alerts programmatically for each user that had been granted permissions to the specific site. The requirement was that these users would be assigned tasks and they needed to receive notifications summarising all the tasks that they had been assigned, on a daily basis.