SharePoint Limitations & Solutions [Video]

Though you might be brimming with excitement from our last Metrostar Minute on Top 5 SharePoint Capabilities, we would be lying if we said that there weren’t some limitations to SharePoint. Prior to any large-scale implementation, for example, we advise that you have a well-planned governance and taxonomy of your digital properties to prevent

Angular and SharePoint Integration

Why Use Angular? SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 both ship with an updated REST API that can be used to access and control nearly every aspect of a site collection: Lists, Libraries, Permissions, and Users are just some of the objects that have defined endpoints. Integrating Angular, a powerful client-side framework, gives developers and content

Hiding SharePoint 2013 Form Fields Based on Permissions

In a previous post, I explained how you could use a new feature in SharePoint 2013 called Client Side Rendering (CSR) to color code a list view. Using that same methodology, I’ll be going over how you can easily hide a form field based on SharePoint permissions…another one of those things that I’m always

Top 5 Capabilities of SharePoint [Video]

SharePoint has become an essential tool for organizations (like ours) looking to organize, store, and share information from anyplace, anytime. Already, 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies use SharePoint software for document management. With its easy-to-use and customizable interface, the software has helped teams boost their productivity. Among its many powerful capabilities, below are

How to Customize a SharePoint 2013 List View the Right Way

In this post, I’ll quickly go over how you can very easily customize SharePoint 2013 List View using a lesser-known feature called Client Side Rendering (CSR). CSR basically provides a way of customizing List Views, Forms, Fields, and Search Results using nothing but HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. For this example, though, I’ll only be

How to Fix a SharePoint 404 Error After Restoring a Content Database

SharePoint 404 Error (After restoring a previous copy of a content database to replace the current one) A 404 error in SharePoint can mean multiple things. In this case, it happens because we restored an older version of a content database to resolve an issue. Now when we go to the site we get

By |2017-06-05T17:38:48+00:00October 16th, 2015|Categories: Enterprise IT, SharePoint Solutions|Tags: , , |

How to Delete a SharePoint 404 Error When the Site Collection is Corrupt

SharePoint 404 Error Site Collection Corrupted (Error 0x80070003) How to Delete Previously we took a look at a possible cause of a 404 error in SharePoint after a content database restoration. This time we have determined that the site collection is corrupt, and we don’t have any backups (you should always have backups). Another

By |2017-06-02T02:31:49+00:00October 16th, 2015|Categories: Enterprise IT, SharePoint Solutions|Tags: , , |

Part 1: Building Cloud-Scale Enterprise Apps – Our Take on Microsoft Service Fabric

Microsoft just changed everything about enterprise app development with their announcement that Service Fabric will be released as part of Windows Server 2016. For years, our enterprise customers have requested the features of commercial Software as a Service (SaaS) applications in their enterprise. They want fault tolerance, high availability, resilience, elasticity, and near-zero downtime.

Part 2: Possible Use Cases for Microsoft Service Fabric

I'm Excited About Service Fabric, Now What? In my last blog, "Building Cloud-Scale Enterprise Apps: Our Take On Microsoft Service Fabric," I looked at some of the common pain points Microsoft Service Fabric can help developers with. This week, we’ll take a closer look at some possible use cases. Use Case A possible use

InfoPath is Dead (Deprecated): What is InfoPath’s Replacement? FoSl?

UPDATED March 2015 Apparently, FoSl has been canceled according to http://roadmap.office.com/en-us (Expand the Cancelled Section). InfoPath 2013 will remain the forms solution for SharePoint 2016 until a new replacement is announced. InfoPath Deprecated Microsoft Announced on Jan 31st via the InfoPath blog officially that InfoPath is deprecated. FoSl Forms on SharePoint Lists List Forms

By |2017-06-02T02:37:42+00:00June 18th, 2014|Categories: Enterprise IT, SharePoint Solutions|Tags: , , , |
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