So, Host Named Site Collections are the new thing. You’ve created your web application and created a host named site collection through PowerShell. You browse to the site and it renders nicely. Yet when you expect to see the site, you get the standard...

I recently got a Dell XPS12 device as my new laptop at work. I like the device a lot, especially since I am travelling by plane a lot lately. Today, for some reason, the wireless network did not detect any networks. Other devices had no problem detecting...

  This is the nice screen I got when I wanted to finalize the configuration of a blank SharePoint 2013 development environment at the customer that was already “partially prepared”. Even if I was quite sure I checked those to see if they were running...

Quite a few customers have SharePoint 2013 developer environments that do not have access to internet. That poses no problem to install Visual Studio 2012, but installing the Microsoft Office Developer Tools requires internet access as it makes use of...

While creating a new development environment I ran into the following error: Cannot connect to the targeted site. This error can occur if the specified site is not hosted on the local system. SharePoint solutions work only with locally-installed versions...

This might be catalogued as random stupidity from my part, but Binging for it didn't really bring me to the information so here goes. I'm currently working on a 3 year old laptop that has been travelling with me pretty much around the world. 16GB, Core...

There is a first time for everything, and this was the first time I saw the crawler in the status recovering. The full crawl has been running for 185 hours and users started informing the IT organization of the customer that new documents were not searchable...

As the great guys and girl from BIWUG ( http://www.biwug.be ) organized a fantastic SharePoint Saturday last year, they are coming back with a new edition this year. For those who don't know SharePoint Saturday, it is an educational, informative &...

When deploying a custom branding solution to one of our customer's environments, we ran into "Failed to instantiate file "ContentQueryMain.xsl" from module "XSLStyleSheets": The specified list does not exist." when we activated the publishing features...

What do you do if you are running powershell on your SharePoint farm and get the "The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered." error. You have someone who has the rights to run powershell add your user as SP...

While migration a legacy application to a new server environment we ran into the issue that the Report Viewer was not rendering its controls correctly. The Report Viewer was running on a webserver that was calling the reporting services on a SQL server...

During our project we ran into the "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message. We were using a WCF service to retreive information from SQL. It took quite a while to figure out where it came from as we were not using Kerberos (which is usually the case...

As a reference to people running code that is talking to Active Directory and are getting this cryptical message. In most cases it is a permissions issue. Make sure that your code is running under the application pool account (meaning SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges...

When you are experiencing the following issue in your SharePoint 2010 environment (in my case the error was happening when certain feature receivers had to be executed): To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software...

The SharePoint 15 Technical Preview SDK has just been released. As you know, this is a technical preview and not the final SDK of the product. Enjoy hunting the new stuff :) http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=28768

When you are building SharePoint projects based on a framework/base approach you'll find yourself in the situation where you want to use specific modules from one of your base projects. The correct way to do that is to ensure that the required features...

Symptom: The custom AccessDenied page is showing the wrong page. Basicaly we were missing the request access link on our accessdenied page. First things to check is that the outgoing email settings are enabled and if the site settings allow the user...

Today the cumulative updates for October have been released for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553050 SharePoint Server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553048 Take into...

The following error pops up when you are trying to remove a masterpage that is still being referenced. In SharePoint 2010 you can detect where the masterpages are being referenced through powershell. In the same script you can update the reference to...

A new breeze is flowing through the BIWUG organisation, resulting in a new session about governance and an overview of where the BIWUG was and where it is planning to go. To wrap things up, we gather for a nice beer at the Microsoft offices! Agenda...