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Creating “Dynamic” XSL Variables
One of the really ugly things about working with Xsl is that it doesn’t support actual variables. There is a ‘variable’ element but it isn’t actually a variable; it is a constant as the value cannot be...
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Another Option for Missing “Sign in as Different User” link in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2010, there was a wonderful option called “Sign in as Different User” that would allow you to quickly, easily and painlessly switch user accounts in the browser without losing your place...
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A List of All Changes in the February 2013 Cumulative Update
This article continues my series of attempting to put all of the various changes in a Cumulative Update into a single place. This post only covers the February 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint...
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A Bespoken Post
In my perusal of various IT and general news, I’ve noticed another word popping up all over the place : bespoke. Apparently the simple word “custom” is too pedestrian for some so they reach for this...
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Upload Files to SharePoint using PowerShell
SharePoint admins occasionally have write PowerShell scripts to regularly extract some type of summary data from the SharePoint farm and then write that out to a file, usually in CSV format since...
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Use PowerShell to Remove an Orphaned Custom Site Template from SharePoint 2010
A situation cropped up today where a custom Site Template was created by saving a site as a template which was then used and subsequently deactivated and then deleted. Simple enough except that...
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SharePoint as a Whipping Boy
A ‘whipping boy’ is an 15th century term for a boy who was designated to take the punishment when a prince or other such noble misbehaved so that the boy would be punished instead of the prince. I’m...
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Calling a SharePoint Web Service Returns ‘Error 400 Bad Request’
The other day an Asp.Net developer approached me with a problem he was seeing interacting with SharePoint. He had code in place for months that called the OData SharePoint web service and it worked...
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A List of All Changes in the October 2013 Cumulative Update
It is Cumulative Update time again and so Microsoft has once more attempted to make tracking down the specifics of what has been changed or updated to as difficult as possible. This post is just a...
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The Elusive Microsoft ULS Viewer
If you do any amount of work in SharePoint then you’ve probably needed to dive into the ULS logs at some point. Once there, you realized that working in those using a simple text editor results in...
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