Author Archives: Stu

Fine Grained Permissions in 2013

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Stu

Setting item level permissions was straight forward in SharePoint 2010, you selected the items you wanted to break inheritance on and selected the Permissions item. When moving to SharePoint 2013 and trying to do the same thing, to a lot … Continue reading →

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Add Field with XML

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Stu

SharePoint Short #21 A quick short today 🙂 Instead of adding new fields to a content type or list creating the object (SPFieldText, etc.) and adding it, simply pass the XML definition for whatever field you are looking to create … Continue reading →

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ULS Viewer

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Stu

A quick post today, just to say that there’s been an update to the ULS Viewer from Microsoft. A big improvement, main features are now: Monitor all server logs in real time across the farm Personalise the output and and … Continue reading →

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Configuring SQL Server Whitepaper

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Stu

I recently came across the following whitepaper for configuring SQL Server to get the best performance from it when used in a SharePoint environment. Download it from here Or view it from here Lots of good information in it and … Continue reading →

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Import Tag MSBuild Errors

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Stu

Creating a SharePoint package is easy enough with Visual Studio but each time you restart it, the package location used previously is replaced with the default location of the current user’s Documents folder. To save a few seconds from my … Continue reading →

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