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Non-technical hiatus: Movember
Here at Improving Enterprises, we have a relatively new annual tradition of forming a moustache team for Movember. For those who are new to the concept, Movember is a month-long fundraising effort for men's cancer research. Each year, men (Mo Bros) from around the world join in sprouting a symbol of solidarity -- with the goal of eradicating men's cancers.
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"The requested operation requires elevation"
Typical SharePoint 2010 install. I had created all my domain users, set up my servers, and started installing the prerequisites. When the first box in the farm restarted and the preparation utility came up, I was asked for credentials and provided them, only to be rejected. At first I thought it was a standard "access denied" error, but a look at the fine print revealed the error titling this post.
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"The data source control failed to execute the insert (or update) command", or How to Make Your Workday a Bit Shorter
Custom list. Custom New/Edit/View forms. Everything works perfectly... until the latest round of updates.
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Removing the 12:00 timestamp from Calendar View
Occasionally, you have a calendar full of all-day events and you don't want the calendar cluttered up with redundant timestamps. Here's a simple client-side script, suitable for framing (or a master page, or a content editor web part) that will cut down on the visual noise.
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Nitpicking that matters: changing default forms on a SharePoint 2007 list
This is a fairly common request, but the solution is often missing one crucial point. To use a custom New/Edit/Display form on your list, proceed as follows:
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SharePoint Designer workflow workarounds: tracking individual column changes
This post is long overdue, but since the question keeps popping up on various SharePoint discussion lists, I figured I'd document the answer here (next time I can just post a link instead of typing the whole thing out again).
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Read-only lock on a SharePoint site collection, or Why can't I edit anymore?
Monday morning, the calls started. For some reason, long-time users were unable to edit list items. I figured we had a permissions issue, so I popped in to look at the Site Settings -- and found that I couldn't. A quick trip to Central Administration showed that I was still listed as a Site Collection Administrator, but I had no power at all on the site collection in question.