By default deleting a site collection in Office 365 just moves the site collection to the recycle bin for 30 days, but there is not an option in the admin screen to remove it from the recycle bin. This is fine, unless you want to use the same url for a new site collection. In... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2013: Creating a Publishing Page and assigning a page layout using PowerShell
The following PowerShell can be used to create a publishing page and assign a page layout. #Get SPWeb $spWeb = Get-SPWeb("Site URL"); #Get Publishing Web $pubWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($spWeb) #Finds the appropriate page layout $pl = $pubWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts() | Where { $_.Name -eq "Page Layout Name"} $pages = $pubWeb.GetPublishingPages(); #Create the page; $page = $pages.Add("Page Name", $pl)... Continue Reading →
BizTalk WSS Adapter: HTTP 401.2 – Unauthorized: Logon failed due to server configuration
Continuing my experience of attempting to configure the WSS adapter for a clients BizTalk/SharePoint integration project. As mentioned in my previous post I was having an authentication issue between the clients SharePoint and BizTalk instances. The message I was getting back (not in BizTalk unfortunately) was the following 401.2 message. "HTTP 401.2 - Unauthorized: Logon failed due to server... Continue Reading →
BizTalk WSS Adapter: RequestFailed: The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseHeader Detail=CR must be followed by LF
Whilst attempting to set up the WSS adapter for a client I was receiving the following error when trying to call the WSS adapter web service. "RequestFailed: The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseHeader Detail=CR must be followed by LF" This seemed to me to be an issue where BizTalk was receiving an error that it could not... Continue Reading →
Server Error in ‘/BTSharePointAdapterWS’ Application: Request format is unrecognised
Whilst configuring the SharePoint Adapter for BizTalk for a client today, I came across a couple of issues. The first error made me think that I had really screwed up the installation of the WSS adapter. I was getting the following error when trying to browse to the web service. "Request format is unrecognized. Description:... Continue Reading →
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