Monthly Archives: July 2012

SP 2013 – SQL Native Client

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #11 If you’re trying to install SharePoint 2013 and during the installation of the prerequisites it fails with the message “Error: The tool was unable to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client” and the error … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Best Practices

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #10 Excellent resource listing the best practices for SharePoint 2010: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices Details things from planning, deployment, development and lots more. Definitely worth bookmarking for future reference.

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Clear Designer Cache

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #9 When using SharePoint Designer, especially in a development environment where content and assemblies can frequently change, SPD can start to behave erratically, sometimes loading content that has been removed from the web site, or using an older … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2013

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Stu

This is no doubt one of the many thousand posts on this subject – the beta release of SharePoint Server 2013. Download it here. and to accompany the install, have a read through this installation guide – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30384 Minimum software … Continue reading →

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Default Content Database

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Stu

Nothing too complicated today but something that some people aren’t aware of and ask if it can be done – having more than one content database so they can, for example, keep sensitive data separate from their general day to … Continue reading →

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