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If any of you are wondering why your SharePoint online menu suddenly went black, I believe this is from an update rolled out by Microsoft. They have set both the background and foreground to black :) .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365spo button.o365cs-spo-topbarMenuOpen, .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365spo button.o365cs-spo-topbarHover, .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365spo a.o365cs-spo-topbarMenuOpen, .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365spo a.o365cs-spo-topbarHover {     background-color: #000;     border-color: #dedede;     color: #000; } .o365spo.o365cs-nav-contextMenu .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365cs-contextMenu {     background-color: #000; } https://prod.msocdn.com/3.06.5615.1/en-US/css/O365ShellCore.css  Waiting for a fix! Until they roll out a fix, add this to your custom css. And dont forget to clean up later. .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365spo button.o365cs-spo-topbarMenuOpen, .o365cs-base.o365cst.o365spo button.o365cs-spo-topba...

get-childitem "C:\temp" -rec | where {!$_.PSIsContainer} |  foreach-object -process { if($_.FullName.Length + 19 -gt 236){ $_.FullName}} * 19 char in c:\users\onedrive 

SharePoint 2010 - Adding user to a group throws error in IE 9 System.InvalidOperationException: Namespace prefix 'xsd' is not defined. at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationReader.ToXmlQualifiedName(String value, Boolean decodeName) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDictionaryEntryArray.Read1_Object(Boolean isNullable, Boolean checkType) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDictionaryEntryArray.Read2_DictionaryEntry(Boolean checkType) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDictionaryEntryArray.Read3_ArrayOfDictionaryEntry() Happens when you force your page to render in IE 9 and higher. There is a detailed discussion here : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/90b3835c-6754-4bb6-9fd4-b74f16f236ff/sharepoint-2010-and-ie9-compatibility?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

Using office 2013 with skydrive and skydrive pro I was getting the following error. An error occurred while accessing the Office Document Cache. a quick startup/shutdown script was created to fix this. cd "C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0" rd OfficeFileCache /s y echo "delete successful" Add to startup and shutdown scripts by opening gpedit.msc

Here is a script to to fix term store ID's in metadata fields  for lists in a website when it has been restored from  another farm with the same taxonomy structure and terms. Click here  to download the script SharePoint managed metadata fields not editable after restore

Office web apps for SharePoint 2013 not working after security updates / server patching. After installation of the following security patches, OWA stopped working there by causing issues with SharePoint 2013. Details of ULS logs are provided below. FarmStateReplicator.exe (0x0CD8) Office Web Apps Farm State Error when trying to connect to Farm State Manager service: System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: There was no endpoint listening at http:// /farmstatemanager/FarmStateManager.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details. ---> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress) at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal...

Ever tried adding a result source in SharePoint to restrict your results to a single content type? The query builder makes it sound easy by giving you options to add a simple filter ContentType "equals" "your content type". Resutls? NONE returned. Finally figured out that manually giving the contentype ID as "Contains starts with" > Manual value does the trick!