Pre data migration analysis : dangerous assumptions about lists
The success or failure of a data migration is invariably in the details. One of those details is how items from a drop down list (for example ‘country’) are mapped from the old to the new system. The consequences of a fault in the mapping can range from nothing at all, to migration runs crashing…
Read MoreSecurity settings to run an application that uses the SharePoint 2013/2016 APIs
[January 2017 – updated title to reference current SharePoint and to include PowerShell command that sets user permissions in SharePoint] Applications, like migration tools, designed to use the SharePoint APIs exposed on servers in the SharePoint Farm need to be run with elevated security permissions. With PowerShell Run the following script in the SharePoint Management Shell as…
Read MoreSharePoint 2010 Versions – managing the data explosion
Something you find out early on about SharePoint, though sometimes not until after you’ve got it going, is that with versioning enabled it creates a lot of extra versions of your documents – one for every editing session. This can lead to an explosion in your storage needs. [See this article on how versioning works,…
Read MoreSharePoint 2010 – some developer gotchas when migrating a lot of documents
These are a few of the gotchas that came up when I was writing a project in C# to migrate over a million documents into SharePoint 2010. If you aren’t the site designer then it is worth making sure the designers have considered these points (if relevant), otherwise you may end up cursing SharePoint unfairly.…
Read MoreCustomising the Word 2007 and 2010 ribbon with the Office Custom UI Editor – a summary and a couple of tips
A quick summary of how to use the Office Custom UI Editor and a couple of tips to make life easier. There are three main ways to add custom tabs and menus to the ribbon: manually in the Word Options (though this is rather limited for Word 2007); with VBA or Visual Studio code; or…
Read MoreManaging and sharing company AutoCorrect in Microsoft Word
Recently my colleagues at Cognitum were asked to help a company give their users access to the company standard AutoCorrect list, and of course an easy way to update it from time to time. Their first stop was Google, where they were surprised to find a lot of frustrated people but no good solutions. Now,…
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