SharePoint 2013 on-premises provides an excellent Web Content Management System (WCMS), with significant improvements and features in 2013. However, the Microsoft-hosted SharePoint Online which comes as part of Office 365 has always had a reduced feature set and is somewhat limited by comparison. This does not mean you can’t build a great Public Facing Website [...]
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Word experienced an error trying to open the file
The Problem Opening a Word document from Office 365 using Word 2010 or 2013 results in the following: The Cause There cause is actually Word’s default security settings… probably a good thing! The Solution You can resolve this issue in at least two ways: 1. Disable Protected View (not recommended…) You can disable protected view [...]
Office 365: The server block is not well formed
A curious error occurred on Office365 the other day… nobody was able to access a document library on SharePoint Online – the helpful error message was “The server block is not well formed”… Without access to the server logs I raised a service request and after trying loads of things that didn’t help I was [...]
Office365 – Open PDF in the Browser
SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Online have a default setting which prevents certain files (e.g. PDF) from being opened in the browser. This setting is in Central Administration – “Permissive Browser File Handling”, which allows users to open files in their native applications. This can be considered a security risk… however most organisations I have [...]
Office365 Update: Business Connectivity Services
SharePoint Online has suffered from a major flaw since BPOS; no Business Data Catalog in the old SharePoint online and “only” Sandbox solutions in Office365. In other words very limited connectivity options. I’m delighted that the addition of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) announced at the SharePoint conference in October is really coming very soon – [...]