Dave Mc's Blog

  • … one of those epic trips …

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    Our family has a history of what we call ‘epics’. These are those trips which on the face of it, seem simple and straightforward, but in actual fact go so horribly wrong that you wonder why you bothered in the first place. I suppose my current trip to Seattle is not such a disaster… more …

  • Where is link to Design Manager

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    I am finally getting around to looking at the whole branding piece for SharePoint 2013 and I was following this MSDN Article this morning and noticed that I couldn’t see any link to the Design Manager in Site Settings as the article appeared to allude to.  I did notice however that the article mentioned publishing… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 Hosted On Windows Azure – Random Errors

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    I’ve recently built a complete SharePoint 2013 installation on Windows Azure consisting of 3 servers: SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps and SQL Server. No resilience built in, as it’s only for testing and R&D. I found that the farm kept experiencing timeout errors, random errors which couldn’t be cleared and then would suddenly just… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 – Index lookup failed to work since no active index cell was available

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    Got this error in the ULS logs when I went to run a Full Crawl on my Single Server SharePoint 2013 installation – well three server really (SharePoint, Office Web Apps and Database).  At the same time I was getting a warning triangle against my Index Partition and for some reason against my Admin… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 – Office Web Apps Preview Not Showing

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    After configuring my SharePoint 2013 Farm and also configuring Office Web Apps 2013 I had created the binding between the two farms, but I was not getting at ‘Previews’ come up when I was clicking on the “…” icon next to a document.  I was also not seeing any preview when viewing Search Results… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 Ribbon and IE10 – Screen goes white.

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    Whilst building our new Intranet in SharePoint 2010, our directors at Ridgian went and d bought some of the new Surface devices, and meanwhile, we had a rollout of Windows 8 with IE10.  Should have perhaps done a little more regression testing before we did this, but that’s life … One issue we can… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 …

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    Not blogged about it yet, just come back from Las Vegas and SPC12. So much to take in on the new release it’s difficult to know where to start, so I’ll be blogging about a couple of things over the coming weeks: Visio Services and changes therein – seeing as I espoused it’s greatness… more …

  • Knowing the Fundamentals is the Key to Great Performance …

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    I’m constantly amazed at the lack of realisation by people that you have to invest time and effort in understanding and mastering the fundamentals if you really want to be good at something. I’ll give you three examples from my experience Software Development, Swimming and Music. Software Development.  In order to be good at software development and… more …

  • Getting Event Receivers to Fire in SharePoint Content Types

    Recently I had a need to hook up an event receiver to a content type. Why not just a list or a list template you might ask?  Well the scenario is the recent move of our Intranet from 2007 whereby we wanted to move our old documents into new libraries but make use of… more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …