Axian Practice Leads Speak at “Ignite TAO V8”

What is Ignite TAO V8? Each year, for the past 8 years, the Technology Association of Oregon has hosted a fast-paced evening of folks speaking to Technology topics in rapid fire. The event takes place in front of a couple hundred of your colleagues. How rapid you ask? Well, the format provides each speaker with … Continued

Deployment Error: Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.

Deployment woes? Par for the course. I ran into an odd issue today while deploying a SharePoint solution via Visual Studio 2013 to a test SharePoint instance today: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: Failed to extract the cab file in the solution. The only change made prior to deployment was the addition of a … Continued

Sharepoint NCSS: Replace Your Content to Save Your Sanity.

That’s right, SharePoint and The Shining. This is a combo that just works. The insanity starts here … NCSS solutions (No Code Sandbox Solutions, for the uninitiated) are extremely useful for laying in custom SharePoint groundwork. Via these solutions you can easily deploy custom Content Types, Site Columns, List Definitions, even Master Pages, Page Layouts, … Continued

SHAREPOINT 2013: SORRY, THIS SITE HASN’T BEEN SHARED WITH YOU.

HAL, I think you’re malfunctioning again …  So here’s the setup: after a complete, stand-alone installation of SharePoint 2013 on a development VM and creation of a new site (let’s call it http://foocompellsyou:8080) via central admin, browsing the configured site returns this lovely message: “Sorry [Dave], this site hasn’t been shared with you.” SharePoint 2013 was … Continued

TROUBLESHOOTING SHAREPOINT 2010 SEARCH

You’ll Need a Logger For That Although it’s a killer feature, Search is as awkward as ever to troubleshoot inSharePoint 2010. The Event Viewer chatter is pretty meek for troubleshooting, and the Search Center crawler reports have couple minute lag which makes them awkward to work with. The ULS logs can be great, but some … Continued