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Who Was England’s Greatest Ruler? A Fun Podcast Vote
Part 1 : How The History of England Podcast members decided once and for all, who was The “Greatest Ruler of England”? Even if you are not a true-born red blooded Englishman or Englishwoman or other, you no doubt are aware the you need to know more about the history of the nation that is… more …
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Office 365 Web Part Menu Not Available IE11
I’ve finally managed to get around doing some work on investigating SharePoint 2013 Apps. Yeah, late I know, but that’s the nature of project work and having a full life outside of IT. Still better late than never I say. Anyhow, I noticed this strange behaviour on Office 365. The menu button for the… more …
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Method not found: ‘System.String Microsoft.ServiceBus.Commands.Common.SecurityHelper.CreateServerAdministratorRole(System.String, System.String)’
Received this error today when building out a Workflow Manager installation “Production style” following Spence’s Instructions here. It happened directly I tried to actually build the Workflow Manager Farm. UP until then everything had gone to plan as per Spence’s instructions. A quick “Bing” and I came across this article. Which hinted that was… more …
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“The ‘fld’ start tag on line 1 does not match the end tag of ‘sFld’. Line 1 Position 3037”
This error appeared on a Customer’s Central Admin site recently, basically when trying to do anything useful such as view the Service Applications, change Diagnostic Logging levels, in fact trying to do anything useful with the farm. It also manifested itself in PowerShell and if you viewed the Running Timer Jobs you noticed that… more …
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SharePoint 2013 Sandbox Solutions – Deprecated or Not?
Had this clarification today from Microsoft on the status of Sandbox Solutions: “The only thing that is deprecated is sandboxed code. If you created a sandboxed solution in VisualStudio and set the “Include Assembly In Package” property to false, this is a declarative-only solution and that is not deprecated” So basically provided there is… more …
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Coaching is tough … but rewarding!
About a year ago I took my Level 1 Swimming Coaching qualification, in order to help out at Wyre Forest Swimming Club, as they were a bit short, and I fancied having a go, thinking it might also help my swimming. I’d seen a few people coach and it seemed to me like “how… more …
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SharePoint 2013 “Sorry, this site hasn’t been shared with you”
This rather annoying message kept coming up on our on-premise (well on-Azure) SharePoint 2013 farm when we tried to create a new subsite of any kind. After a fair amount of beating around and finding nothing around to indicate the cause, I eventually tried adding the current user to the Web Application User Policy… more …
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SharePoint 2013 : Configuring an on-premise farm for Apps
At Ridgian we’ve stood-up an on-premise SharePoint 2013 Farm. Well actually it’s running in Windows Azure under an extension to our own AD and one thing we wanted to test and run through is configuring the Farm for Apps. Basically setting up our own App Store. Now TechNet have a an article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx which is… more …
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SharePoint 2010 : “The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component”
I came across this very annoying message when provisioning the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application recently, and interestingly it occurred on two farms on the same network. Both were brand new stand-ups a Test and a Production farm. Both were two-server farms, a SharePoint and a SQL Server database. The message appears when you… more …
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