This can happen if you are a Visitor to a publishing enabled site and the master pages are not published. Action: contact the site administrator, have him go to Design Manager (/_layouts/15/DesignMasterPages.aspx) and check if the master page currently applied to the site is published and approved. When can this happen ( well other than a designer… Read more
Here’s one for you: Trying to open any page with Sharepoint Designer results in “Web Site Editing is Disabled. This web site has been configured to disallow editing with SharePoint Designer. Contact your web site administrator for more information” The behavior is by design for the Root Web of a Project Server Site Collection (Template PWA#0) and… Read more
A new neat feature in Sharepoint 2013 is the Design Manager. A quick and easy way to create Design Packages ( what previously one should have done through features and solutions) and be an answer to the branding demands for both on premise Sharepoint installs as well as for O365. Read more here: Overview of… Read more
One of the important features in SharePoint is the ability to have an overview of the tasks assigned to a person. With SharePoint 2013, the source of the aggregation has diversified including now Project Server Tasks, SharePoint Tasks and Exchange Tasks , all these aggregated in the special “My Tasks” view in each user’s personal site…. Read more
I have seen this not only once so I thought it’s worth a couple of lines to (potentially) save some trouble-shooting 🙂 . among the properties that can be set to restrict peoplepicker behavior we have serviceaccountdirectorypaths http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263012(office.12).aspx and siteuseraccountdirectorypath http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263328(v=office.12).aspx. These properties go hand in hand and allow the abbility to restrict the peoplepicker to… Read more
Ran into this message and I thought it would be nice to share the resolution. Consider the following callstack from ULS: Exception=Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEndpointAddressNotFoundException: There are no addresses available for this application. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoundRobinServiceLoadBalancer.BeginOperation() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceApplicationProxyBase`1.ExecuteOnChannel(..) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AppManagement.AppManagementServiceApplicationProxy.GetScaleOutDatabaseMap() … The Problem with the above message is caused by the Service Application “App Management Service” and Proxy being configured and… Read more