By: Michael McCabe Social networking has taken on a central role in Microsoft SharePoint 2013.  Networking with colleagues to share your ideas, and to follow theirs, accelerates the spread and re-use of corporate knowledge. Adding videos to your blogs is one of the most useful ways to share knowledge in the new version.  And it’s […]

By: Neil Barkhina For a long time, one of the only challenges with storing large quantities of data in SharePoint was the ability to report against that data. The platform of choice for reporting has always been SQL Server, and while SharePoint has a lot of great visualization tools, I.E. PowerPivot, Power View, SSRS, PerformancePoint, […]

By: Yi Fan Tang SharePoint 2010 configuration database can be corrupted for various reasons. If you get the following error after trying to do some configurations in Central Administration and hit “OK”, the “Objects” table in the configuration database might be corrupted. System.Xml.XmlException: ‘.’, hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 84. […]

(Automating business processes with the safety wheels on) By: Philip Stathis Use Case You are developing a solution to automatically delete multiple list items that will be triggered on a specific list after an item is deleted. You cannot use a workflow since there is no way to have a workflow fire on item deleted. […]

By: Neil Barkhina With Microsoft’s next wave of Reporting technologies, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of Business Intelligence choices. We have come a long way from the days when the only choice was SQL Reporting Services. While this is still a solid performer for many scenarios it is not always the best […]