SharePoint -tag has all of my posts concerning all the different versions of Microsoft SharePoint under it! Yes, that’s a lot of posts. That’s a lot of SharePoint Problems, after all.
But hey – what can you do? SharePoint really is quite the multi-headed beast, so no matter how many problems you solve and which services you tame, there’s always new ones coming up. Endless amount of work to be done.
I guess that’s part of its enhancment, though :)
I’m posting new content on a roughly monthly basis under this category. I’ve split the posts under more refined sub-categories, too. You can check them out below:
So, in short, you can find an ever-growing number of debugging and gotcha -articles, related to Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office Servers, SharePoint Online (or, like it’s often known, SharePoint 365), SharePoint 2010 and later incarnations under this category.
This article describes the localization/multilingual capabilities of SharePoint, and your options as an organization using it to achieve a seamless and user-friendly experience for your end-users and content editors. SharePoint’s definitely a powerful platform, but its multilingual features might leave a bit to be desired – and using them successfully…Continue reading SharePoint Localization – a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!
This article explains how to enable custom scripting for any SharePoint site collection. This is functionally equivalent to setting setting “-DenyAddAndCustomizePages 0” or disabling the NoScript feature. Different instructions and solutions apply to SharePoint Online, and on-premises scenarios (SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and probably 2019) – so see below for…Continue reading 5 ways to enable Custom Scripts for a SharePoint site collection
Imagine this: you’re using a good old SharePoint blog site, and have a bunch of categories in use. That’s nice and easy – SharePoint offers the categorization functionality natively, and it works decently. Problems arise when you have a lot of categories, though – not all of them will be…Continue reading How to show more than 30 categories on Classic SharePoint blog/news sites?
Twitter embed has a stupid, built-in failure condition: if the User Agent contains IE10 or older, the embed script will not load. This causes SharePoint embeds to fail. This post describes how to fix that.
This ages-old trick deserves to be published – since it makes it easy to quickly show info from pretty much any other page on pretty much any Classic SharePoint page (in a SharePoint-compatible pop-up). So, here goes: Using SharePoint’s JavaScript library to open an arbitrary pop-up Yes – SharePoint contains…Continue reading How to show a pop-up in SharePoint
Can’t access a web part page because of a broken web part? Yeah, that’s a classic issue – and it’s nicely ported into the Modern world, too! In these cases, web part page maintenance mode comes in handy! There’s a query parameter available for accessing it. For whatever reason, it’s…Continue reading Opening a web part page in maintenance mode
Debugging SharePoint On-Premises configuration issues is the best thing since sliced bread, right? This post is about allowing/enabling Anonymous Access to a site collection – a simple configuration, that “simply works” like once every ten times you try it.
I won a hackathon! They had fun topics, it was a cool challenge, a well-organized event, and had cool prizes. Since this is the first hackathon I ever took part in, I thought I’d post something about my experience and the solution(s) I figured out. Description I recently took part…Continue reading Hackathon win: Resolving Managed Metadata Madness
