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Step by step video on how to fix the SharePoint Workflow issue caused by .NET patch
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article This post is a continuation of this previous post. It is also an extension of KB4465015. The video assumes you read the previous post and/or KB. The page to the scripts mentioned in the video can be found here: https://gist.github.com/joerodgers/2302b394796c865818839d843bae2dad …
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After installing .NET security patches to address CVE-2018-8421, SharePoint workflows stop working (KB 4457916/4457035 and others)
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article *** FINAL UPDATE VI *** SharePoint CUs are out The Nov 2018 SharePoint CUs The SharePoint with fixes are available. Some environments using third-party solution may still need to follow the steps on this post: Description of the security update…
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SharePoint 2013/2016 Usage Reports fail to show the correct number of clicks from anonymous access
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article Symptom When using a Search Center with anonymous access, click statistics do not compute correctly for anonymous access but registers other user’s accesses properly. ULS logs will show entries like this: w3wp.exe SharePoint Foundation CSOM ajwqj Medium Request does not…
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Leveraging the new Time Travel Trace API in Debugging tools to find when one or more SharePoint event happened
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article In my previous post, I showed a proof-of-concept script to list all occasions a process opened a file. JavaScript is easy to program and works for most cases, however in some occasions you need to access resources not available from…
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Leveraging the new WinDbgX and Time-Travel-Trace -Script to list all access to files
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article WinDbg Preview a.k.a. WinDbgX aesthetically looks like a marriage between Visual Studio (VS) and WinDbg, however VS and WinDbg have not many things in common. For me, this is the good news. The bad news is that the support…
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After updating SharePoint 2013 to November 2017 CU or later you may not be able to open documents with Office
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article *** UPDATED TO INCLUDE Stefan Gossner and Adam Soreson’s INPUT *** Symptom After updating SharePoint 2013 to November 2017 CU from a previous version you will not be able to open Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) but other types of…
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SharePoint 2013 and 2016 does not respect the user zone when sending alerts but the Cross Firewall Access Zone (an unusual scenario)
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article Symptoms Consider you have a one Web Application with at least two zones. The extranet zone (https://sp2016 in this example) and an intranet zone (http:sp2016:100 in this example). The cross firewall zone is the intranet zone (http:sp2016:100 in this…
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Tool to generate DebugDiag rule for SharePoint based on event id (Tag) and optionally a partial message
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article When I updated my post on how to create DebugDiag rule based on event id (Tag), I received some feedback that modifying the scripts is quite error prone and more often than not the resulting script would not work as…
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PowerShell CmdLet to check OneDrive for Business or OneDrive Personal Status
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article My good friend Neil Hodgkinson gave me a challenge: some partners and companies were asking him how to verify the status of OneDrive. He gave me the idea to check the icon of the OneDrive folder and depending on…
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SharePoint 2013/2016 RSS Viewer not working with external sites when through a proxy
Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article Recently I worked on a case for a Fortune 500 company that was having problems to render the RSS Viewer Web Part in their SharePoint 2013 farm. They still have a SharePoint 2010 farm in the same network environment…
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