Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
Technical / January 23, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Most SharePoint administrators will probably have seen this error once before. Usually you come across it while upgrading your SharePoint environment. SharePoint places locks on several objects to prevent multiple upgrade processes from running the same code on the same object simultaneously. In the upgrade log, it will state: “An update conflict has occurred, and you
Technical / January 10, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I ran into a weird situation today where it took me while to figure out what was causing it. These were the symptoms: A user reported he could succesfully open older Excel files from a document library, but newer ones could not be opened. The error popping up showed in Excel Services telling the user:
Technical / December 28, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
I’ve been using Windows 8.1 for quite a while now (since the beta), and I like still it very much. I’ve expanded my Windows landscape with a Surface tablet, and already had a Windows Phone (two, actually). The fact that the same OS runs on all is a cool thing which makes adopting it easier.
Technical / December 9, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
A question asked oftenly by customers is: “I still have documents on network shares, how can I show those in SharePoint?”. The reasons why they do not want to move files to SharePoint can vary. Note that I used documents in the question and files in my previous sentence, since a file doesn’t have to
Social / December 4, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Voor mijn baan zat ik het afgelopen jaar vrij veel in de auto. Op zich heb ik daar, op de vervelende files na dan, helemaal geen probleem mee. Sterker nog, zo’n ritje is soms wel fijn om je gedachten weer even op nul te zetten. Radio of Spotify aan, lekker meeblèren, heerlijk! Toch kan autorijden
Technical / November 13, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Today I was working on a page which is displayed in a dialog view. Trimming SharePoint bits and pieces is easily done by adding IsDlg=1 to the querystring of the page. But… this does not hide the ribbon. Ok, so how to hide the ribbon too then, when required? There’s a simple piece of CSS
Technical / November 8, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
The Enterprise Content Hub (ECH) is a SharePoint mechanism which allows us to reuse / distribute content types across multiple site collections. Normally, a site content type (what’s in a name), is bound to the site collection in which it was defined. Actually, when defining a content type on a lower level (subsite), it can only
Technical / October 2, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
When using Nintex as a workflow engine, you can create multiple content databases and associate them with your web applications and / or site collections. One reason you might want to do this is back-up and restore. When you want to team up your workflow status with the items you’re restoring, you only have the
Social / September 8, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Ik heb een prima opvoeding gehad, vind ik zelf. Natuurlijk; als puber vind je sommige regeltjes te idioot voor woorden. Bovendien ben je er heilig van overtuigd dat je het later zelf héél anders gaat aanpakken. Ik ook. Maar achteraf gezien was dat allemaal zo slecht nog niet. Ik mag mezelf wel beleefd noemen geloof ik (mag
Social / July 18, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Ik heb het al eens eerder gehad over de automatisering. Niet zo raar, aangezien dat mijn vakgebied is. Het is een interessant woord: automatisering. Als je het letterlijk neemt staat er dat we dingen “meer automatisch maken”. En meer automatisch betekent als het goed is: minder werk. Toch? Zo hebben we de afgelopen jaren enorm