Category: SharePoint 2013
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Proper way to handle workflows that throw a Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityValidationException
I had to build a fairly complex workflow not long ago. The workflow was built in SharePoint Designer 2013 and had a lot of moving parts to it. So many, that when I went to publish it I received the following error message: “Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityValidationException: Workflow XAML failed validation due to the following errors: Activity “SomeXActivity”…
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SharePoint Site Architecture – Flat, Deep or Something In The Middle
Hi recently had the privilege to do another presentation with Joanne Klein. This time we built a presentation off of a post that she had written around whether we should use flat or deep structures with our site collections and sub sites or if we should have something in between when designing a SharePoint site…
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Read XML Data Files Stored in a SharePoint Library with PowerShell
I recently had a need to read data from an xml configuration file that was stored within a SharePoint library. To make things easier I of course went to Google (or Bing) and checked to see if someone else had yet blogged this. Couldn’t find anything, so in order to help out someone else that…
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An Error Occurred While Running Detection when patching SharePoint Servers
Ugh, patching servers. Yet another reason to move to SharePoint Online. I recently started another patching process as the servers were getting out of date and needed to have the environments upgraded. So while doing one server in particular I ran into a snag where the installer wouldn’t even run past the detection point. It…
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JavaScript files not Updating in Site Assets or other SharePoint Libraries
So ran into a very weird issue. I had just finished patching our Dev and Test servers to the November 2017 CU. And after this occurred, any updates to solutions using JavaScript injection was not working. I’ll describe the problem in more detail here right away, but I want to make sure I give a…