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SSIS / BIDS Rename File with File System Task
Lets see if I can explain how to rename a files using the File System Task in BIDS or SSIS. First you will need to add a File System Task to your Control Flow. (Drag and Drop it to the Form) Open the task and change the Opertaion to Rename File. Set the...
SharePoint 2013 Design Packages broken
We were attempting to use Responsive SharePoint from CodePlex, They've done a lot of heavy lifting with regards to implementing Twitter Bootstrap within SharePoint 2013. After some testing we found that certain sites were becoming corrupt and throwing Errors and...
TSQL: Search All Tables
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[SearchAllTables] Script Date: 3/14/2013 8:01:42 AM ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE PROC [dbo].[SearchAllTables] ( @SearchStr nvarchar(100) ) AS BEGIN -- Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi....
SharePoint 2013 unexpected database growth
So one day, suddenly I find my development environment out of drive space, never good, but its my dev box and not a production system. So that's the good news. Production Environment Fix(Contentdb): So I start poking around and find that the content database is...
Repost: Obtaining Method Caller Information in C#
http://tech.pro/tutorial/1155/obtaining-method-caller-information-in-c
SPWeb.Users.GetCollection does not work as expected
It appears that SPWeb.Users.GetCollection is not bound to its initialized web although SPWeb.Users[username] and SPWeb.Users.GetByEmail(email) are. The unfortunate thing, SPWeb.Users[username] and SPWeb.Users.GetByEmail(email) both throw exceptions if nothing is...
SharePoint Hide Fields with JS and JQuery
Session State in SharePoint
I tried using Session state today in a web part I was developing, it failed, the session was always null. I followed the best practices, verified it was enabled in web.config, it wasn't, so I turned it on. EnableSessionState="true". I tried my webpart again,...
SharePoint 2013 Front End Server Prep
Here's a collection of tools that are handy to have installed on your front end servers. The first thing you'll want to do is install a Windows SDK. The SDK package comes with a lot tools, specifically GacUtil.exe Server 2012...
SharePoint Configuration Wizard Error – The SDDL string contains an invalid SID or a SID that cannot be translated
was setting up a HyperV instance for development. Grabbed a Server 2012 Eval, threw SQL on it and installed SharePoint Foundation 2013. I was running through the configuration wizard and it was at step 8 or 9, creating Sample Data... and it threw the error below. I...