SharePoint Online–Enabling Custom Script
When Creating an Office 365 SharePoint site, you might want to turn on custom Scripting. Steps here:...
View ArticleList template not showing up when adding an app
Problem: The list/library template you just created by saving List or library as a template is not showing up when you try to create a new list/library based on that template. One thing to check...
View ArticleSharePoint Sites throwing 404 Page not found error
If all SharePoint sites are returning 404 errors, including Central Admin site after a fresh installation. the problem might be the IIS setting about unlisted file extensions. To check if this is the...
View ArticleReduce payload of SharePoint REST API
Just came up across this very useful post : http://sadomovalex.blogspot.ca/2015/08/fix-problem-with-returned-xml-instead.html It shows how to use JSON light with SP2013 SP1+.
View ArticleNew tool to check site mobile-friendliness
A new tool by google to test how mobile friendly is a web site: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com
View ArticlePublished file is different between Authoring site and publishing site
We had a very weird issue today with a SharePoint publishing site. Some js and css files (which were deployed as part of a WSP) were not updated in the publishing zone. When checking from the authoring...
View ArticleSharePoint – Enable-SPFeature : The file is currently checked out or locked...
When running Enable-SPFeature, you may get the weird error: “Enable-SPFeature : The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user.” One possible cause of this issue could be...
View ArticleSharePoint Site not accessible – 404 Page not found
One possible reason to have an error accessing a SharePoint site (page not found, 404 error) is that content database is not accessible by Pool user. This could happen after restoring content database...
View ArticlePowershell to set URL Rewrite to SharePoint using SPWebConfigModifications
If we need to add some URL rewrite to a SharePoint site, we can do that using some web.config settings like : <rewrite> <rewriteMaps> <rewriteMap name=”Redirects”> <add...
View ArticlePowerShell script to set URL redirects for SharePoint site using...
To have http redirects in a sharepoint we can use something like this in the web.config file <location path=”oldpage1.htm”> <system.webServer> <httpRedirect enabled=”true”...
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