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Virtual Machine: SharePoint failing to create a Web Application

So your Virtual Machine doesn’t quite have enough resources to create a new Web Application using Central Admin, then you have two choices PowerShell or the workaround I’m going to describe today.

October 14, 2014

Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 3

In this post I want to talk about Fixtures and a major pitfall I’ve found when working with Chutzpah Test Adaptor for the Test Explorer.

September 15, 2014

Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 2

Last week I wrote about how to configure Jasmine to run within Visual Studio using Chutzpah Test Adaptors. However since then I’ve run into a number of issues for which I will share my thoughts in this post.

September 15, 2014

Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 1

This blog does not describe how to perform JavaScript TDD (test-driven development) or BDD (behaviour-driven development). It does however describe how to set-up Visual Studio and configure an App for SharePoint project to get you started.

September 8, 2014

Useful UI Branding tools for SharePoint 2013

Just thinking about branding my website and came across a tool by Microsoft called Color Palette Tool SharePoint 2013 which downloaded from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16806.color-palette-tool-sharepoint-2013.aspx And if you require inspiration for your theme one of colleges (Matthew Holden) pointed me in the direction Adobe Kuler https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

August 5, 2013

Disable mobile auto-redirect for SharePoint anonymous access website

The quickest way for all mobile devices and browsers add the following to the web applications web.config file: View the code on Gist. However for a more granular approach, edit the App_Browsers\compat.browser changing the following to “false” for the relevant userAgent: View the code on Gist.

July 17, 2013

SharePoint: Enable Publishing features

To use Web content management on SharePoint, activate Publishing features at both site and site collection levels; this allows for branding and editing the corporate site. Additionally, enable multilingual support by creating and translating a source site. Detailed steps are provided for feature activation.

May 3, 2013

Definition of a SharePoint Feature

Represents a modular server-side, file system-level customization that contains items that can be installed and activated in a SharePoint environment within one of the following scopes:

April 25, 2013

SharePoint: How to Update a Site Collection Date Format

A step-by-step guide on how set to a Site Collection’s Date Format *It is possible to update sub-sites; however updating the root (parent) site collection gives the opportunity to update all its sub-sites at the same time. Tip: When the Site Settings page loads, if you see the Go to top level site settings link…

April 25, 2013

Category: SharePoint 2013