More on invalid file and folder names
I’ve been talking about file name limitations for SharePoint 2010 resources a couple of months ago, focusing on illegal characters and path/url length. There is, indeed, something more which is related...
View ArticleNew Slovenian SharePoint User Group
I wish to say “good luck” to the brand new Slovenian SharePoint User Group. A first meeting will take place today at 5PM: Robi Vončina and Uroš Žunič will present a couple of sessions about “SharePoint...
View ArticleHow to issue Http Web Requests to a SharePoint 2010 site with FBA and SSL
The .NET Framework provides some handy classes that help you manage HTTP communication through requests and response objects. Everything is plain and simple, as long as you are connecting to a resource...
View ArticleExtending Base Xslt Web Parts with custom control bindings
What a long title! Maybe it requires a little bit of explanation. Here it is. First of all, by Base XSLT Web Parts I mean a whole family of OOTB SharePoint Web Parts that leverage XSLT transformation...
View ArticleIt’s new, it’s green
And it’s finally live: the new Green Team web site! It’s been rebuilt from scratch, using SharePoint 2010 as the CMS publishing infrastructure. The web design was created independently from the...
View ArticleSharePoint Future 2012
SharePoint Future 2012 We launched the SharePoint Future brand back in 2009, during the very early days of the SharePoint 2010 beta timeframe. It was the first event in Italy (and probably the first or...
View ArticleSharePoint MVP 2013
Yesterday I received an email from my MVP Lead. I have been renewed as a SharePoint Server MVP for the fifth year in a row It’s a great honor and a huge pleasure for me. I wish to congratulate with all...
View ArticleItalian SharePoint and Office Conference 2013 – What’s new with Workflow in...
(for my non-Italian readers, I’m swithcing to Italian language here, but you can use some online translation service to have this post translated… and have fun with the results J) Credo che tutti...
View ArticleItalian SharePoint and Office Conference 2013 – What’s new in SharePoint...
(again, for my non-Italian readers, I’m switching to Italian language here) What’s new in SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows è la terza ed ultima sessione del “trittico” sui workflow che presenteremo...
View ArticleDeleting a Site Collection that cannot be deleted
Today I stumbled upon a strange issue on a production SharePoint 2013 Farm. I had a bunch of site collections created using a batch script, and one of those was unreachable. It’s quite common (well, at...
View ArticleGrouping by a multi-value Managed Metadata Field using XSLT and a...
First and foremost, I think that there’s a reason why grouping (generally speaking) is usually disabled when the group-by criteria is on a multi-value field. Performance is probably the key point here:...
View ArticleHow to quickly identify large lists with PowerShell
It’s easy, and it’s just one line (without word wrapping J). Get-SPWebApplication http://webappurl | Get-SPSite | Get-SPWeb |% { $_.Lists | select @{n=“Url”;e={$_.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl} },...
View ArticleMigration to SharePoint 2013: Unable to change the Master Page of a...
A few days ago I was supporting a customer during the migration of the Corporate Intranet (SharePoint 2010) to SharePoint 2013. One of the “manual configurations” that we needed to apply after the...
View ArticleMigration to SharePoint 2013: “The Controls collection cannot be modified...
The background If you have ever written some ASP.NET code making use of server side code blocks, you may have occasionally seen errors like this one: The Controls collection cannot be modified because...
View ArticleFind large files through Search in SharePoint 2010
How to get a list of large files in a (very large) SharePoint 2010 Farm, sorted by file size? I discussed about this requirement with my friend and teammate Riccardo Celesti and we ended up with the...
View ArticleAll DDWRT Functions by SharePoint Version
Yesterday I’ve been asked “How can I get a list of all DDWRT extensions that are available in SharePoint 2013?”. The online documentation is accurate but, unfortunately, a “little” bit outdated: this...
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