If you have encountered an Access Denied message in SharePoint although you have proper permissions to the site, page, list, or library, then it could be one of several reasons. Hopefully one of these several fixes will work for you. Fix #1: For the site or sub-site with the Publishing feature enabled, ensure all users […]

A user posted a List View Web Part on their intranet site alongside their Announcements (also a List View Web Part).  For a cleaner look, I was asked if we could get rid of the column headers for all of the web parts on the page.  They aren’t really useful, they state the obvious, and […]

If you have seen either of the above messages while trying to open a document in SharePoint, you are probably as confused as we were.  My user was getting this even though the file was not checked out.  Worse still, the message said that the file was locked out… by him.  He didn’t have it open and there were […]

First, an introduction to the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010: Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts. The Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training […]

Several of my users have encountered the problem of three failed login attempts to SharePoint resulting in a blank white screen.  This can happen when a user’s  login credentials (username and password) are incorrect.  Unfortunately, this can also happen when they put in their correct information.  This second scenario can be bedeviling so I’ll go over […]

Recently, we needed to redirect users from a site in SharePoint to another site.  First, we set the old site to Read-Only. How? Navigate to {Central Administration Site |Application Management | Configure Quotas and Locks} and select one of the options under “Site Lock Information“. We then copied all of the content, and sent out a message […]

Today I implemented an Issue Tracking list in SharePoint 2010 for a project.  As the users started using it, I noticed that the Title column was narrow, hence the longer titles were wrapping to several lines.  This does not look good at all. So I went to Google and set out to modify the column […]

Today a site owner wanted to create a document library on his site that had been migrated from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.  He attempted to create the doc library several ways, none of which worked: Site Actions, New Document Library Site Actions, More Actions Libaries, Create The problem turned out to be a Site […]

I had a user who got married and submitted her name change to the company.  Active Directory was properly updated.  Her old last name (Smith) does not appear anywhere in her AD record and has been replaced with her new last name (Jones).   We have SharePoint 2010 set to perform an AD sync every […]

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion in the IT world regarding SharePoint Development.  Essentially, the term SharePoint Developer is too vague. I have conversations with recruiters on a frequent basis who want to discuss the three typical roles of SharePoint Architect, SharePoint Administrator, and SharePoint Developer.  We need to discuss this third […]