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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 / 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
Technical / June 17, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
In SharePoint 2013, rolling up content has changed a lot. The Content Query Web Part is gone, which in my opinion is a GREAT thing. There are some new webparts to replace it, which are based on search. One of those webparts is the Pages webpart. You can use that to show an overview of pages.
Technical / June 6, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
At my current job, I’m more of an administrator than I am a dev. It’s quite enlightening to be honest. As a developer, you don’t tend to think that much about site structure, governance and all those things. Not that I had no experience in that, but I surely have learned some things extra since
Technical / March 22, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
This is a topic which comes up more then once when you’re working with the content deployment feature. For those of you unfamiliar with content deployment; it’s basically a process to import and export a site collection in an automated way, across farms if you like to. But content deployment is a tricky process in
Technical / January 7, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
The last few days I was working on a problem reported by a user using InfoPath Service. A browser based form had to connect to the UserProfileService.asmx webservice in order to read some profile data to populate a form. This was working untill the web application was switched to claims based authentication. After that change,
Technical / December 20, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
So you’re building a SharePoint farm which has to have a high percentage of availability. And to get that, you decide to make your databases highly available by the techniques offered by SQL Server. Think mirroring, or AlwaysOn if you’re using SQL2012. Which technique you’re using doesn’t really matter; you have to realise that this
Technical / September 25, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
As I’m studying for Microsoft SharePoint certifications, I came across the “Remote BLOB Storage” topic. It’s an interesting technique, allowing you to store BLOB files (documents, videos, images, etc.) outside of SQL Server. The main reason why you’d want to do that is performance. SQL doesn’t handle those BLOB things that fast and they fill up
Technical / July 26, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I came across what I find to be a pretty big security risk when you’re working with multi tenant SharePoint environments. Basically, it’s pretty simple. When you set up your environment and create a tenant, you have to specify the OU in which the accounts for this tenant live. This makes sure that your users cannot
Technical / July 11, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Ok. This is quite a common scenario. You’ve got your SharePoint site setup which consist of multiple webs, maybe (probably) even multiple site collections. Your user is member of a handfull of sites and get’s tasks assigned. You need your user to stay informed about the tasks he needs to perform. You’ve got a couple