SharePoint – Personalize Web Part Drag and Drop – 2 Page loads
SharePoint – Personalisation This feature requires user to have customisable permissions (Includes all permissions in SharePoint default READ permission Level) Manage Personal Views Add/Remove Private...
View ArticleHow to find your SharePoint Farm Account
Surprisingly, if you are new to SharePoint, you may be confused by the fancy terminology such as, SharePoint Setup Account, SharePoint Database Access Account, SharePoint Central App Pool account bla...
View ArticleDistributed Cache Status Down, CacheHostInfo is null
This problem troubled me for like 2 days consecutively while i have to stay in the data center (with the crazily cool air-con) to troubleshoot, its kinda driving me crazy. I have two (2) SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoing Global Navigation for SubSite not showing Parent Sites Nodes
Despite setting the properties “UseShared” for SPWeb object to “True”, it does not show the correct Parent’s Global Navigation nodes. I have this requirement where the subsites (3rd level, where 1st...
View ArticleFacebook Access Token Request does not work in IE 8
Integrating Facebook Feeds to your Web Application could be a very common thing nowadays. Supporting this integration across different browser could be a headache for most developers out there....
View ArticleLocalhost on Mac is taking long time to resolve
If you are using Mac OS X with MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) installed in your OS and you are still scratching your head asking why “localhost” or MAMP starting page “localhost/mamp” is taking ages to...
View ArticleSharePoint Limited Access Permission – Careful when using BreakInheritance
This post is for SharePoint Developer or Admin who deals with SharePoint APIs (PowerShell or C#) I have recently discovered a killing command from SharePoint that could kill your SharePoint Day. At...
View ArticleHow to bulk insert multiple users into SharePoint People Picker
Sometimes, you will need to add permission or assign multiple users using People Picker field. This post tells you how you can insert multiple user entities using COPY (CTRL + C) and PASTE (CTRL + V)....
View ArticleTarget Audience in Web Part Property is missing.
Or rather how to prevent Target Audience feature in Web Part from missing. I bumped into this problem where I wanted to set a web part to show only to a certain group of users. Checking the Web Part...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps Sorry, there was a problem and we can’t open this document....
Got this error after configuring Office Web Apps for SharePoint. Digging into the ULS for Office Web App [C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeWebApps\Data\Logs\ULS\***] and found the following error...
View ArticleOffice Web App for SharePoint Cannot Preview Word Document
This is rather a Weird problem I encountered when deploying Office Web App for SharePoint 2013. (Not sure about SP2010). After following MSDN technet of deploying/configuring OWA for SharePoint, Ran a...
View ArticleChanging Default HomePage for Document Center to a Document Library
As stated in the Title, it is easier said than done to change the default landing page of a Document Center. If you have done publishing sites often, you will usually go to “Welcome Page” in the site...
View ArticleSharePoint Installation Error – Requires .NET Framework 4.5 despite having...
I was puzzled when trying to install SharePoint 2013 in Windows 2012 R2. For the past few months when I was doing the same steps, this error did not occur. If you have done Prerequisite Installation...
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