Looking for SharePoint guides and tutorials?
If you’re new to SharePoint 2010 then you will likely be looking for some online guides or tutorials for getting started. Microsoft have produced a number of free, online training courses for SharePoint 2010 beginners that can be taken at…
Delay opening documents on some workstations
I’ve recently noticed a delay of almost 5 seconds when opening documents from SharePoint on some workstations. After a bit of investigation I discovered that this was caused by Internet Explorer Automatic Configuration. On the workstations that were experiencing a…
Outlook prompts for credentials to open a SharePoint calendar
I have created a shared calendar and clicked the Connect to Outlook button in the Calendar ribbon. I was prompted for credentials continually and the calendar would never open in Outlook. The solution was simple but quite annoying – merely…
Configure alerting for Health Analyzer rules
I don’t log in to Health Anaylzer on a daily basis so have decided to configure alerting for some of the rules to make sure I’m aware of any potential issues. I’m mainly interested in things like low disk space,…
Using ULS Viewer
ULSViewer is an application that allows users to open a ULS (Unified Logging Service) log file and display its contents in a user friendly format. This can be particularly useful when troubleshooting problems with your SharePoint 2010 server. The download…
Change SharePoint log retention period
If, like me, you’ve found that your SharePoint log files have become rather large then you can configure the retention period in order to reduce the amount of space they consume. This can be done with a few clicks in…
Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer
While setting up an automated process on a Windows 2008 server to drop some files directly to a SharePoint library I encountered this error message: "Windows cannot access \\intranet\reports\daily" I then tried to browse to the library and click the…