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I got this error while I was trying to install the Cumulative Updates August 2013. The reason for this error is that the baseline for all updates is the first Cumulative Update in March. I checked my build version of the farm and found out that I've installed the RTM version. If this doesn't solve your problem you can try to start the ubersrv2013-kbxxxxxx-fullfile-x64-glb.exe with the parameter PACKAGE.BYPASS.DETECTION.CHECK=1 like: ubersrv2013-kbxxxxxx-fullfile-x64-glb.exe PACKAGE.BYPASS.DETECTION.CHECK=1 ( Do not forget to start the command as farm administrator ) This bypassed all checks so that you can force the installation. Ressources : SharePoint 2013 Build Numbers and CU's

We have a Nintex Workflow and I need to send a list of documents in a folder to a customer as email attachment. Sound easy !! Although this could be an easy tasks unfortunately I couldn't find an easy way to do this, because the "Attachment" input element only takes a full path to a single file. That means you can't loop through a folder and collect all files with a seperator in a variable and give it to the attachment control. Or better would be to collect all paths in the "Collection" variable and give this variable to the attachment control. This also does not work in my Nintex version. Maybe the Nintex guys already added this feature. The only way I found is to save each file in a separate variable. So I had to make a restrictions like, "I've maximum 5 attachments". So in my Workflow I've 3 variables (you can have more): fileAttachPath : Contains the path to the folder like http://sharepoint/sites/projectX/docs fileAttach1:...

The are multiple szenarios when you need a redirect in SharePoint: You've migrated SharePoint into a new URL (e.g http://sp2010 to http://sp2013) You moved a site collection You moved a sub site into a new site collection If you want to redirect in SharePoint without custom solutions you have the following options: Redirect with XML Viewer or Content Editor WebPart You can redirect with JavaScript by inserting a WebPart into the site and adding simple JavaScript. This is easy to configure but redirects only the site in which the WebPart sits (Probably the Mainsite). If users have saved links the their document libraries this method fails, unless you put the same WebPart into the document library. So go to the site you want to redirect and the XML Viewer WebPart. Open the WebPart settings and add the following line of code: <script type="text/javascript"> location.href = "<<the url you want to redirect>>"; </s...

In this post I describe how you can move a team wiki from one site to another. The difficulties here are: The "Save as Template" option in the list settings does not exist. This is because this type of list is deprecated. In SharePoint 2010 you should use Enterprise Wikis. After copying the list, the links in the wikis site must be adapted to the new site. Ways to copy the Wiki Library The are three "easy" ways to copy the Wiki Library from one site to the other. The "Save As Template" Link does not exist in the Library Settings but the option still exists. SharePoint Designer Open the site with the SharePoint Designer. Click on your wiki and go the the library settings. You'll find a "Save as template" button there. "Save as Template" option in SharePoint Designer SharePoint UI You can use the standard "Save As Template" UI by modifying the URL Go to the Wiki Library. Normally you brows...

There are lots of stuff in the web around how to create a FAQ in SharePoint. In this post I'll show you some tricks what you can do with additional OOB SharePoint tools to have also some search and some style within your FAQ to impress your customer. It also shows you the power of SharePoint as a developer platform. The requirements for our FAQ are: Easy to maintain Easy to search content Add documents as links in FAQ Grouped FAQ content Export FAQ when needed into a report To understand this post you should have some basic know-how about: SharePoint Lists SharePoint List Views HTML, CSS JavaScript (SharePoint Client API) SharePoint WebParts CAML or you just follow the instructions. The following image shows us the final page. Final FAQ Pag Our FAQ page has a FAQ list and a document library. This is useful if you want to link on some documents in your FAQ. The page has a list WebPart with a special grouped view and also2 quick searches fo...

I got this error while installing SharePoint 2013 with AutoSPInstaller. STS Call Claims Windows: Failed to get cookie value handler type / object Opening the logs I saw following error messages: This error was also caused when I tried to use Get-SPSite -Limit All As the error says that it is a claims problem I first checked the SharePoint Security Token Service but the web service was fine. When I browse the web service, the page is rendered without errors: After: Check if Windows Web Services Pool has started Check if "Claims To Windows Token Service" has started Check if IIS checkbox "enable for 32bit Applications" is checked Provisioning the Security Service again Check if the "Claims To Windows Token Service" is running under Localsystem account Check if in IIS > Windows Authentication "Enable Kernel Mode Authetication" is enabled And Reinstalling SharePoint I got still the same error. Then I decided to debug...