Working with technology, you are inevitably going to run across a task that seems simple, but when you still can’t do what you wanted to do 10 minutes later, will leave you questioning your sanity.
I came across such a problem when updating a set of custom content types for a client. One of the content types was seldom used, and we wanted to re-classify any existing items of that type to another, new content type, then delete the deprecated content type.
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Yesterday, a client contacted me about an issue with a SPD workflow they created to copy items between document libraries.
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One of my clients called the other day with a SharePoint logging problem. Her server(s) were creating blank log files, 0KB in size without any errors or apparent issue.
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I spent a little time last week troubleshooting alerts for one of our clients. I had built this farm a little over a year ago and all of the sudden, alerts stopped working. To give you some background, the farm is rather simple; 2 WFEs connecting to an enterprise SQL cluster.
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Earlier this week, a client asked me to assist with an issue they came across when performing a search on their SharePoint portal. The portal was available, content was accessible, yet when they searched, they would receive the following error:
Your license for Office Server Search has expired.
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