SharePoint admins occasionally have write PowerShell scripts to regularly extract some type of summary data from the SharePoint farm and then write that out to a file, usually in CSV format since PowerShell handles those so well. This is great for admins because we can just log onto the box and open the file to read the data, but what about the rest of the SharePoint team that also needs that data? Click to read the full post
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A List of All Changes in the February 2013 Cumulative Update
This article continues my series of attempting to put all of the various changes in a Cumulative Update into a single place. This post only covers the February 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010. The details regarding the specific CU Click to read the full post
Another Option for Missing “Sign in as Different User” link in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2010, there was a wonderful option called “Sign in as Different User” that would allow you to quickly, easily and painlessly switch user accounts in the browser without losing your place on a site. This worked wonderfully for developers and for Admins where they have multiple IDs. However, it confused the average user and Click to read the full post
A List of All Changes in the October 2012 Cumulative Update
The October 2012 Cumulative Update for SharePoint is out and Microsoft continues to release the list of changes in so many fragments that it is nearly impossible to answer the simple question of what has changed. So, I’ve tried to pull all of the October changes into a single place, like I did back in August. Click to read the full post
A List of All Changes in the August 2012 Cumulative Update
The August 2012 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is out. However, for some reason, the folks at Microsoft have not yet seen fit to release a single list that shows all of the changes contained in a Cumulative Update. Instead, they issue two Knowledge Base articles that each in turn include a list of links to other knowledge base articles and sometimes those link to still other knowledge base articles. Oh, and sometimes they include still more links to other knowledge base articles in the list of fixes! All of this adds up to make answering the relatively obvious and simple question of “What has been fixed?” a great deal more time consuming than it should be.
Since I have to look at all of the changes anyway, I just went ahead and bundled them up Click to read the full post
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