SharePoint Rita
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Presentation at SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley June 2013
I had a great time presenting and learning at SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley, on June 22nd, 2013...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 06/24/2013
My first book has been published - Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development
Our book is finally out! I am now officially a published author. The book, Pro SharePoint 2013...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 06/14/2013
Post links to social newsfeed via REST in SharePoint 2013
Recently, I had to write a SharePoint App that allows users to "social share" documents, videos,...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 04/30/2013
How to update and republish existing BCS definitions and InfoPath templates for External lists
So you have created BCS schemas, External content types, external lists, and InfoPath templates for...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 10/30/2012
Error in InfoPath web form while getting REST data from SharePoint lists
Environment: SharePoint 2010, InfoPath 2010 web forms, REST data accessing data in SharePoint lists...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 10/23/2012
Powershell to add a geolocation site column in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 introduces a new Geolocation field to help us integrate geolocation information and...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 10/20/2012
SharePoint 2013 - How to setup cross-site publishing, enable catalog, use Managed Navigation
New in SharePoint 2013, cross-site publishing lets you store and maintain content in one or more...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 09/26/2012
SharePoint 2013 preview search crawl stuck in "Starting" status
Environment: SharePoint 2013 Preview, stand-alone single server farm Issue: After configuring the...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 09/25/2012
SharePoint hosted Visio drawings cannot refresh data due to secure store exceptions
Environment: SharePoint 2010, 3 farms: Collaboration farm, Service apps farm, FAST search farm Visio...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 09/14/2012
Unable to view SharePoint 2010 libraries due to User Profile errors
Environment: SharePoint 2010, 3 farms: Collaboration, Service apps, FAST Issue: When users hit the...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 09/14/2012
InfoPath 2010 browser-enabled forms cannot be opened - "The following document is not a valid InfoPath form"
Environment: SharePoint 2010, InfoPath 2010 browser-enabled forms Issue description: We have alot of...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 09/09/2012
Populate SharePoint list item fields from QueryString parameter using InfoPath and QueryString filter web part
In this scenario, we have a SharePoint list that we want users to populate. But we want to set the...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 08/23/2012
Enable FAST search to crawl SQL contents using BCS and secure store
Here is my farm topology: SharePoint collaboration farm (SharePont contents) SharePoint application...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 08/23/2012
Build Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 on Office 365 preview
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/apps Sign up to get your own Office 365 developer site...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 08/09/2012
InfoPath browser forms cannot access REST web service over SSL
Here is an issue with Infopath browser forms accessing data in SharePoint via REST web service over...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 08/08/2012
Process to free up space on C drive
Initial steps to move things off C drive: Moved C:\Windows\Temp to D:\Windows\Temp Go to Server...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 04/04/2012
LinkReplaceTimerJob threw an exception after running Update-SPInfoPathUserFileUrl
Repro steps: - A .rsds file is a shared data source file published to SharePoint by users to allow...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 03/06/2012
Publishing error during database attach upgrade
Upgrading the content database resulted in the following error: "Upgrade incomplete for Feature...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 03/01/2012
Unable to load SharePoint web application on port 80 in a dev domain without internet access
While working in a dev domain that does not have access to the internet, I ran into the following...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 03/01/2012
Upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 - Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode
When upgrading existing contents from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, there are scenarios where...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 01/31/2012
Install and configure Reporting Services for SharePoint 2010 Integration
There are many ways to setup SSRS for SharePoint integration. In this post, we will describe steps...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 01/23/2012
Connect Visual Studio to TFS
From a computer with Visual Studio installed, Start > Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 If the program...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 01/19/2012
Install Office Web App
Installation error: After starting the Office Web App iso, if you get the following error, exit the...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 01/18/2012
Install SharePoint 2010 prerequisites without internet
Extract files from the SharePoint installer (either its a zip or a ISO) Run...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 01/18/2012
Configure Related Searches web part
There isn't alot of documentation around Related Searches web part. This web part seems be related...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 04/03/2011
List of development tools for SharePoint
CKSDev https://cksdev.codeplex.com/ SharePoint Developer Dashboard From SharePoint 2010 Management...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 04/03/2011
Host SharePoint 2010 VM with VirtualBox
This is a standalone SharePoint farm all in one vm. VirtualBox is used here for hosting vms on...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 02/24/2011
View the physical file structure of GAC
To view the physical file structure of GAC: add a binary value named 'DisableCacheViewer' to the...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 06/18/2009
Installing Silverlight Tools (without internet)
Using a computer with internet connection to download the following: Silverlight 3 Beta Runtime -...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 05/26/2009
When your post has exceeded the max length
When there is alot of data in a POST, or when uploading large files in .NET, the following error may...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 10/09/2008
ASP.net AJAX deployment error
When adding ASP.net AJAX code to a web application hosted in IIS, you may get this javascript error...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 10/08/2008
Update SharePoint Administrator Credentials
Often, we need to change the login information for the SharePoint Administrator. Here are just a few...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 08/15/2008
Bill Gates Touts Strong Growth and Enterprise Adoption of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-02SPPTEnterpriseGrowthPR.mspx
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 03/04/2008
SharePoint SP1 released!
Get Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1...
Author: Rita Zhang Date: 12/11/2007