SharePoint 2013 – enable the Blob Cache
The blob cache (one of four cache types in SharePoint 2013) is a disk based cache to improve the speed at which pages load (it also reduces load on the database server). Enabling this requires editing the web.config file on each…
Code blocks are not allowed by default
While trying to add some code directly into a page using SharePoint Designer I realised that SharePoint disables the ability to create server-side script by default, and the code gets stripped out when I save the file. The error reads:…
Configure proxy server for SharePoint
When adding some RSS feed web parts I realised that I need to configure a proxy server for SharePoint to access the Internet as they don’t have direct Internet access. This is the error I was receiving: Configuring the proxy…