In SharePoint 2010, it was quite easy to tell SharePoint to use a custom access denied page that you developed and deployed to the farm instead of the out of the box page. There are […] Read More

I thought I would update my 2010 Web Templates post with the same info for the 2013 platform. Here is a list of all the web templates in SharePoint 2013, including the ID, Description and […] Read More

Here’s an interesting scenario I hadn’t experienced before:  SharePoint 2013 farm doing a user profile sync with Active Directory. Security was based on Active Directory security groups managing membership and authorization controlled through SharePoint groups […] Read More

Just a quick programming note for our home viewers installing Office Web Apps 2013 on Windows 2008 R2. If you’re following the instructions on TechNet, they list the following prereqs as of the writing of […] Read More

SharePoint 2013 introduces MDS, or Minimal Download Strategy, as a way to increase performance of various types of SharePoint sites (basically, non-publishing sites.) It’s turned on for quite a few site templates out of the […] Read More

On my drive in today I was thinking about some recent events and rationalizing them with past experiences in management positions. Employees should always be asking their managers for something. That “something” changes over time […] Read More

Earlier today I presented a session at SharePoint Fest in Denver, CO on records management and touched on 2007 and 2010, leading into the new capabilities built into 2013. The audience was great and had […] Read More

On a SharePoint 2013 farm we recently had search throw errors consistently being unable to crawl and index content. Looking into the crawl logs, I saw the error “The filtering process has been terminated”. Doing […] Read More

I’m honored to have been chosen to present not one, but two sessions at the upcoming Visual Studio Live! event in Vegas from March 25 – 29. I remember this being one of the conferences […] Read More

Pulling the table below from TechNet, the difference between Standard and Enterprise search in SharePoint 2013 is really only: Content Search Web Part Custom Entity Extraction Extensible Content Processing Advanced actions on Query Rules Video […] Read More