Yearly Rant: What is UP with MS these days?
rant So what is "wrong" with MS products these days? Some thoughts from the heart (with a smattering of cogent thought here and there) VSTS So »
Windows Mobile Hand Wringing
I am getting more and more depressed over Windows Phone. There is so much negativity around the product that it is nigh on impossible to be »
SharePoint 2013 Workflow: Document Approval failed to run
How the Issue Manifests In the workflow status, the workflow stops with a "Document Approval failed to run." message Also get the following in the event »
Configuring an Extranet with SharePoint Foundation 2013
Configuring an Extranet with SharePoint Foundation 2013 As a thought experiment, I wondered how one would go about setting up an Extranet environment in a highly »
Open With Explorer View
I have seen a number of posts around that purport to show how to open a document library with Explorer from a link (Numerous clients find »
SharePoint 2013 Apps: Setting Up an App Domain for SharePoint
One of my clients recently had a variation on the App Domain theme, that presented a set of challenges that I have not seen well documented »
Showing Workflow History After 90 Days
One of my clients recently had an issue with their Project Management system built on SharePoint. Links to workflow history is, by default, removed after 60 »
SharePoint 2013 - Open New Document from Template
Overview It seems that every customer I go to asks the same thing: Can we store our Document Templates in SharePoint and use them to create »
Windows 8: Death by a Thousand Cuts
Windows 8 is Death by a Thousand Cuts Peoples ability to put up with a product that has a few small issues is well documented. As »
SharePoint 2013 RTM + GridView
This one threw me for a day or so. When using a GridView in a web part or page, the Update command of the GridView was »