• Service Pack 2 and the June Cumulative Update

    A follow-up from last week's post about the release of SP2 for Office and SharePoint 2010 : The updates from the June Cumulative Update ( KB 2855357 ) will not install on SP2. The August Cumulative Update will be the first to do so. However, the June Cumulative Update includes some changes that are not available in SP2 . If you need those...
  • Retrieve the list of Content Types in MOSS 2007 using PowerShell

      MOSS 2007 [ void ][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( "Microsoft.SharePoint" ) | out-null Write-host ".." Write-host ".." Write-host "Get a list of Content types" $site = new -object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite( "http://spweb/extend" ); # specify url here foreach ($web...
  • “The installation of this package failed” error while installing April 2013 CU (KB 2726992) for SharePoint 2013

    There have been issues reported where the installation of April 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013 fails with the following error: “The installation of this package failed” If you navigate to the temp file location (open windows explorer and type %tmp% in the address bar) and open the log file, “OPatchInstall(1).log”, located in %Userprofile%\AppData...
  • SharePoint – Key Descriptions

    Also posted @ http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20023.sharepoint-key-descriptions-and-terminologies.aspx In this article, I plan to provide information about some of the basic components of SharePoint and the terms that we hear day-in and day-out. Please be advised that most of this information is scattered across...
  • Intermittent "HTTP 403 – Forbidden" error while trying to browse to a SharePoint web app

    Consider a scenario where you receive the following error when you browse to a SharePoint web app The website declined to show this webpage HTTP 403  Most likely causes: This website requires you to log in. This issue is intermittent. Strangely, if we create a copy of the web.config file, rename the web.config file, refresh the home page...