I’ve often used the Web Parts Maintenance page in working with SharePoint sites.  To get there, simply add ?Contents=1 to the end of the URL. My other favorite “quick link” is for opening a page in Edit Mode when I cannot otherwise.  This is achieved by adding ?ToolPaneView=2 to the end of the URL. Ahmed […]

In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft has provided a free, online PowerShell Command Builder utility: https://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html I recommend that you bookmark it and refer to it whenever you need to double-check the commands in your scripts.  You may want to download the Getting Started Guide. Make sure that the first thing you do is to select the appropriate […]

Now that you’ve created a brilliant chart, graph or dashboard in Tableau you want to render it on a SharePoint site.  Here are the steps to do this.  Honestly, the step you’re probably not thinking about is Step 1 below.  If you’re working with the Tableau client on your desktop, you can make awesome interactive […]

If you are using Tableau for reporting, you may want to connect to one or more lists in SharePoint.  Here are the steps I take to do this. Step 1: Open a browser and navigate to the SharePoint list you would like to work with in Tableau.  Make a point to identify the list name. […]

There are articles on Google that help you add a field to an InfoPath form so that you can display who last modified it.  Great.  However, I needed to find out who had last edited (and thoroughly screwed up) an InfoPath form on a specific list in our SharePoint 2010 environment.   It takes a little […]

I keep SharePoint Designer disabled ever since one malicious user caused a great deal of trouble two years ago.  We have over 15,000 users and the risk is just too great.  As you probably know, SharePoint Designer is enabled/disabled at the web application level and then at the site collection level (for some degree of […]

One of my users has a SharePoint site with a list called Admin Tips, currently with 45 tips (list items).  She has a List View Web Part (LVWP) on the main site page to render this list, choosing a particular view to render for the web part.  The specific View she has chosen has the Item Limit […]

One of my users came to me today frustrated that he cannot find any information from Google about migrating a list from our Test environment to our Prod environment.  He says that most of the content is for 3rd party products.  He certainly doesn’t want to move it by hand.  Good news: the solution is […]

In SharePoint 2010, when you create a new site, you provide both the Site Name and the Site URL.  If at any point you want to change either, it’s simple.  Just go to Site Actions >> Site Settings >> Look and Feel [section] >> Title, description, and icon. However, when you create a new List […]

Some of our users are prompted for their username and password every time they visit sites in SharePoint.  It’s especially annoying if they’re logged in and attempt to navigate to another site, where they are prompted again and again.  The question has come up: “Why can’t SharePoint remember my username and password from one minute […]