Invalid or missing properties when saving an Office document
Sometimes you try to save an office document in SharePoint and it decides that it is missing some properties in something called the 'Document Information Panel'. This panel appears at the top of the...
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InfoPath Form Security Checklist / Flowchart
The following graphic should help most of you prevent many security issues with your InfoPath forms. To be fair, one particular piece of functionality requires a codeplex addon called "SPDActivities"...
View ArticleOutlook View Dynamic Date Filter
This is an oldie but a goodie. Refer to this article to see where I got this. Situation: I need to see emails that are older than 60 days in Outlook 2007 or 2010 so that I can delete them; so, I go...
View ArticleFixing crazy SharePoint permissions
Situation: SharePoint grew organically and we ended up with permissions craziness.Desired Solution: Come up with a model for our permissions and then implement it.Goals:Centralize the management of...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Themes - changing fonts
I have to say a huge thank you to Randy Drisgill (@drisgill for twitter) for answering this situation for me. Basically, we had our administrator setup a new, default SharePoint 2010 site collection...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Designer Workflow Error
Error: The server could not complete your request. For more specific information, click the details button. When you click the details button, the box is blank.Our setup: Workflows with a total number...
View ArticleLimit number of words in an InfoPath textbox
So you might have figured out you can limit the number of characters in a textbox in InfoPath, but what if you have to limit the number of words someone types? This came up in one project because they...
View ArticleHide 'Submitted By' in InfoPath Browser Form
If you have had to deal with browser forms a lot, you may have run across the ability to send an email with the active view (aka page you are last looking at) as the body of an email to someone. The...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007 and 2010 - Prepopulate or Prefill list fields via Query...
Edit 1/9/2013 - Updated the time function to round any supplied time to the nearest 5 minutes so that it will properly set the time dropdown.Edit 10/24/2012 - Updated one line where an errant forward...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 LVWP Dynamic Date Filtering
Situation: You used SharePoint Designer 2010 to insert what you *thought* was a data view onto a web part page and it is actually a List View Web Part (LVWP) and you want to filter the data related to...
View ArticleSending emails between SharePoint lists
(Also thought of as SharePoint Workflows emailing other SharePoint Lists.)Situation: Wanted to have a single list at the root site where users can submit ideas and problems that should go to IT for...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Foundation User Profile Sync
Problem:SharePoint 2010 Foundation does not provide a user profile synchronizing service between active directory and SharePoint. Sure, whenever a user logs into SharePoint it adds that user but it...
View ArticleSharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow - Lookup User Information in SharePoint...
Problem: In Foundation 2010, SharePoint Designer only allows you to perform a lookup on a user's Name, Display Name, Email Address, and ID...what about custom fields that were added to the User...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 People Picker Address Book Error - Namespace xsd not defined
Problem: You attempt to use a people picker control in SharePoint 2010 and click the little 'address book' button to find a user. You search for someone and find them (yay!) and click the OK button to...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 List Not Shared With You
Situation: SharePoint 2013, claims-based authentication using Windows NTLM claims (aka your Windows PC passes your username and password to SharePoint's claims security service to log you in), site...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Workflow App Step won't work, gets suspended
Situation: SharePoint 2013, Workflow Manager 1.0 + the two CUs for Service Bus and Workflow Manager, List with workflow that has an app step (to allow it to read/write to other lists to which the user...
View ArticleAndroid Home Button keeps opening recent apps
Problem: I have a Galaxy S4 and at some point it decided that when I press the home button on the phone it would always open up the recent apps window - even if I didn't hold the home button down! This...
View ArticleExtracting/Downloading Attachments Inside InfoPath Forms or Download All...
SITUATION: It's been a while but I'm back to working more with SharePoint - YAY - and was hit with my first unique request: we want to find a way to extract files that are inside of InfoPath attachment...
View ArticleAzure CloudShell - Store Scripts Centrally for your Team
Problem: Cannot find or run scripts from Azure Cloud Shell that are centrally managedSource: Azure Cloud Shell uses a secure linux vm with Powershell Core running on it and that shell has no access to...
View ArticleGetting around the 50k limit for Azure / O365 Groups in Azure AD Sync
Problem: A giant group in your on-premises Active Directory does not sync through Azure Active Directory SyncSource: Azure / O365 has a limit in the Azure AD Sync (AAD Sync) such that it ignores groups...
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Office 365 Spam Remover - Now supports MFA
Problem: A spam campaign has hit your tenant and affected more mailboxes than can be processed by the Search n Purge option in Exchange Online.Resolution: Adjust this script to replace CONTOSO with...
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O365 Spam Remover Script - now with a GUI and supports MFA
Problem: A spam campaign has hit your company and you want to remove the email from all inboxes in the tenant to help prevent people clicking bad links, freaking out, etc.Solution: If you have less...
View ArticlePowerShell Scripts - Connect to Azure AD with MFA - reusing your existing...
Situation: You are a very good user and have Multi-factor Authentication enabled for your account and you do things in Azure often. You want to connect to Azure without having to be prompted AGAIN for...
View ArticlePowerShell Scripts - Get all Mailbox and Mailbox Folder permissions in O365...
Script updated several times between 2020-02-10 and 2020-02-13 to tweak different aspects when using the new Exchange Online powershell cmdlets that is currently in preview but is generally much more...
View ArticleBulk DNS Management in PowerShell
So your environment got bigger fast and you have a TON of forward and reverse lookup zones and something is out of whack. Well, I have a tool I've made in PowerShell and used successfully to 1) Find...
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