Does your site pages library look totally unmanageable? Have you had instances where you can see a news post that you created but someone else doesn’t? Is your content not showing up in search or highlighted content web parts? This happens all the time and it is generally an easy fix. I had the good…
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Access Denied Error on Styles Library
I am going to file this one under the “if you need to do something more than twice you should probably write it down”. This gets me frequently enough that I remember I’ve dealt with it before but not frequently enough that I can commit the solution to memory. I find myself using the SPFX…
Deploying Application Customizers with a Site Design
Sometimes things are harder than they need to be. I have been working on Site Designs recently to automate the creation and deployment of different element in a site. For the most part things were pretty straight forward for what I needed to do, add a theme to a site, add site columns, and add…
Using Custom Color for Section Backgrounds and Page Headers
Have you ever wondered where the background colors in SharePoint modern pages comes from? You know, the ones for section background colors and site headers? Have you ever wondered how to change them to your own custom colors? I had a client that wanted to be able to set the background for the site headers…
More than I ever wanted to know about the SharePoint Search Topology
The other night I burned way too many hours trying to fix a broken search service application for what seemed like a ridiculous reason. We have an integration server that we are using for a large project. I was working with it earlier in the day testing some front end code. Later in the evening…
Powershell Commands for Installing Solutions and Features
As a SharePoint 2007 developer I have many of the common stsadm commands committed to memory. While stsadm still works in SharePoint 2010 in favor of moving to proficiency in the latest version of the technology here are some of the powershell commands that I use on a daily basis. With that said, I usually…
When Pigs Fly 