Issue: Whenever my client tried to open a .zip files from SharePoint it throws the below error message. Background: One of my clients had zipped the .excel files in on his local desktop and uploaded to SharePoint site. There files contains the project level information and was needed to extract after two years. When he

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SharePoint 2007: Error ‘The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted’

By default, in SharePoint 2013, Workflow Manager Service is not configured. Workflow Manager Service has to be downloaded, installed and configured manually before it can be used in SP 2013. Here is a step by step walk-through. Step 1: Open Microsoft Web Platform Installer My version of WPI is 4.5 Step 2: Search for Workflow.

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Step-by-step guide explaining how to configure the Workflow Management Service in SharePoint 2013

Since the release of SharePoint (Online) 2013, I have been a massive fan of the new Social features. I wrote multiple blogs and articles about Social and SharePoint. A lot has changed, and is going to change, since Microsoft decided to acquire Yammer. Yammer is going to be theSocial experience for SharePoint Online 2013. Yes, SharePoint Online and not SharePoint

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How to post a document from SharePoint Online to Yammer

1.    Copy the contents of the master page. 2.    Create a new master page. 3.    Paste the code from the original master page into the new master page. 4.    Find one of the following lines of code (depends on the type of site being edited):  <div id=”suiteBarRight”> OR <SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat=”server” AuthenticationRestrictions=”AnonymousUsersOnly”> 5.    Insert this code just above one of those previous

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How to edit the title in the SharePoint 2013 SuiteBar

SharePoint Modal Dialog (SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options)) is one of the most commonly used developer features. DocRead and DocSurvey both utilise this “out of the box” modal dialog box to display forms and information to the user. Recently, when we were working on the DocSurvey application, we came across this challenge (one of the many challenges) of rendering a DocSurvey (enhanced SharePoint

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How to create a cross domain SharePoint Modal Dialog using SameOrigin Policy