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Add a Staff Notebook to Microsoft Teams

If you are using the EDU SKU for Office 365 you have been able to enjoy creating Staff Notebooks...

Author: spucelik Date: 08/23/2018

SharePoint User Adoption

You have deployed SharePoint and now what.  Here is a guide to gaining better user adoption within...

Author: spucelik Date: 06/25/2018

PowerBI and SharePoint 2013 Search Results

Knowing that the SharePoint 2013 Search API is all REST based, we can user PowerBI to retrieve the...

Author: spucelik Date: 06/14/2018

BI and SharePoint Onine

Business Intelligence (BI) and SharePoint online are maturing to the point that it's becoming much...

Author: spucelik Date: 04/12/2018

Updating SharePoint 2013 User Information

In SharePoint 2013 there are a couple ways to configure how user information is updated from Active...

Author: spucelik Date: 11/07/2017

Supporting TLS 1.2 in SharePoint 2013

In March of 2014 the .NET framework 4.6 was updated to provide support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2.  This is...

Author: spucelik Date: 11/03/2017

Modifying the Hover Panel in a Document Library

SharePoint 2013 introduced hover panels to search and document libraries.  Hover panels provide a...

Author: spucelik Date: 07/15/2017

Removing items from the quick launch

When you create a new site in SharePoint, various templates are used that have been configured to...

Author: spucelik Date: 07/10/2017

List Item Threshold Explained

Many of us already know the story with the 5,000 item limit with lists/libraries and some strategies...

Author: spucelik Date: 05/22/2017

Launch forms in a dialog window

In SharePoint 2013, by default when you create a new list or library the new, edit and display forms...

Author: spucelik Date: 04/26/2017

Web Part Page Title Bar property not displaying

The title in a SharePoint 2013 web part page should display the value of the Title property in the...

Author: spucelik Date: 03/17/2017

InfoPath - State Service Application is required

When using InfoPath in your SharePoint 2013 environment, if you don't have the State Service...

Author: spucelik Date: 02/15/2017

List all the timer jobs using PowerShell

Here is a useful script that will retrieve all the SharePoint timer jobs filtering by the schedule...

Author: spucelik Date: 01/12/2017

SharePoint 2013 install error if the .NET 4.6.X framework is installed

When installing the pre-requisites for SharePoint 2013 you may receive an error during the...

Author: spucelik Date: 01/06/2017

Error Creating a new Web Application

When you're creating a new web application, you may encounter the following error:...

Author: spucelik Date: 01/06/2017

Update a users name in SharePoint

When a user has a name change in Active Directory, the User Profile Service does not update the...

Author: spucelik Date: 01/04/2017

Check to see if a managed path exists using PowerShell

Here is a handy PowerShell function that will check to see if a managed path for a web application...

Author: spucelik Date: 01/03/2017

Truncate a SharePoint database log file

Since SharePoint is heavily dependent on SQL Server to store not only content but configuration...

Author: spucelik Date: 12/30/2016

SQL Server Disk Allocation Size

SQL Server is a major component of any SharePoint installation simply because it stores all the...

Author: spucelik Date: 12/27/2016

Setup SSRS on a multi server SharePoint farm

In an earlier post I provided step by step instructions on how to install SQL Server Reporting...

Author: spucelik Date: 12/22/2016

Setup SSRS on a single SharePoint server farm

Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in a SharePoint environment requires several...

Author: spucelik Date: 12/21/2016

Change IIS Web Application Settings

Once a new web application is created within IIS, changing the settings can be accomplished through...

Author: spucelik Date: 12/20/2016