SharePoint 2013 – the awesome, if already slightly legacy portal solution by Microsoft. These posts handle the on-premises installations and their issues.
Luckily, SharePoint Add-ins (or App Parts, like they were called earlier) are slowly getting killed and rooted out of all the sites they once were deployed to – and I don’t think anyone’s going to miss them. However, as so often happens with legacy implementations, there will still be thousands of sites,…Continue reading Updating files in an App Part (SharePoint Add-in)
This post is about managing Anonymous Access on a SharePoint site (SPWeb) using PowerShell commandlets. It’s often a lot more feasible and even easier than using the browser interface! In some cases, it’s borderline impossible to avoid it anyway – since accessing the GUI switch might not be possible. Description…Continue reading Using PowerShell to modify anonymous access permissions on SharePoint On-Premises
Have you ever run into this, very non-descriptive and weird SharePoint error message “Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed”? You could encounter it while running some PowerShell scripts – most typically when trying to update a wsp solution. I have, and luckily often easily solved! Symptoms Assume…Continue reading Powershell Error: Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed.
Sometimes – pretty often in the good old on-premises world, actually – you’ll need to have a copy of all the packages that are deployed to a certain farm. So – how to download all of the deployed farm solutions (essentially, cabinet files renamed to .wsp) from a farm? Luckily,…Continue reading The quickest way to download all the wsp-packages in a SharePoint farm
SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 versions don’t have that old and familiar “sign in as a different user” option in the site menu, and for the time being, nor does SharePoint Online. However, sometimes it’s very useful functionality to have, so it’s a bit weird Microsoft chose to get…Continue reading How to log into SharePoint as a different user
In this post, I describe how you can figure out if IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) has jumped into compatibility mode. You will run into this requirement every now and then when trying to figure out some SharePoint browser compatibility mess-up. This is quite frequent because in compatibility mode IE does…Continue reading Identifying IE11 compatibility mode in SharePoint
This post describes the easiest (probably) and most straightforward way of creating a new Thread in your SharePoint (or any other .NET) server-side/desktop code. Solution Let’s face it – one should not create new Threads lightly when developing SharePoint solutions, but sometimes it is difficult to avoid. Or sometimes it’s…Continue reading The simplest way to create a thread on SharePoint
