Increase list view threshold from 5000 items
By default SharePoint lists are throttled with a threshold of 5000 items. This is mainly to prevent a drain on resource and performance decrease: Whilst not recommended for production environments it is possible to increase this value in Central Administration. …
Show the SharePoint document version inside a Word document
If versioning is enabled on a document library it is possible to show the SharePoint document version inside a Word document (rather than maintain the version inside the Word document manually). It involves configuring a label in the Document Library…
SharePoint 2013 – “Sorry, something went wrong” when configuring Incoming E-Mail Settings
While trying to enable incoming email settings for a document library in SharePoint 2013 I clicked OK on the form and received the following error: Sorry, something went wrong An unexpected error has occurred. I found the following in the ULS logs…
SharePoint 2013 – “An unexpected error has occurred” when configuring incoming E-Mail settings
While trying to enable incoming E-mail settings for a document library within SharePoint 2013 I received the following error: An unexpected error has occurred. I used the Merge-SPLogFile PowerShell cmdlet to collate all log entries relating to the correlation ID. The…
The filename you’ve specified is either invalid or too long
I have just created a new web application and site collection in SharePoint 2013. With a large number of documents to place into a Document Library I thought it would be easier to copy and paste them using Windows Explorer,…
Access denied when a user click ‘Add document’
I have recently received random reports from users that they are presented with an access denied message when trying to upload files to a document library by clicking the ‘Add document’ link: The permissions all looked fine so I turned…
Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer – on Windows 7 with IE 10
Since upgrading to Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 I have not been able to open SharePoint document libraries with Windows Explorer, instead I receive this error message: Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer I…
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…
Configure the maximum file upload size
I have just tried to upload a fairly large file to a SharePoint Document Library but it failed because it exceeded the maximum supported size, as shown in the screenshot below. The exact error reads: "The specified file is larger…
Error: The following files have been blocked by the administrator
I had just created a document library to use as a repository for some VB Scripts I have written. However, while trying to upload some files I was presented with the following message: The following file(s) have been blocked by…
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