Creating SharePoint List Item where I don’t have access  on that List I have already discussed SharePoint 2013/Office 365 security issue/bug on SharePoint Community discussion board before two days on below link: https://collab365.com/topics/without-permissions-you-can-perform-read-write-delete-operations  Today, On Office 365 environment, I have created one workflow, using App step, which perform Item creation operation on the list on which

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Manage SharePoint List Items without having Permission on List using SharePoint 2013/Office 365 Designer Workflow

This post illustrates how to automatically get and set the currently logged on user’s manager in the ‘new form’. In my case, I needed to show the user their manager’s name to make sure that that it would be routed to the right person for approval. If their manager is away on vacation then the user can

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How to auto-populuate the current user’s manager on a ‘new form’ in SharePoint

MinRole Farm Topology Before we start with the installation of SharePoint 2016 Preview we have to keep in mind that the farm topology will be different from the previous SharePoint version. Within SharePoint server 2016 there are 6 different roles we can give to a server. By using the new MinRole feature in SharePoint Server

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How to install SharePoint 2016 (including a primer on MinRole Farm topology)

SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 now includes the Mount files or folders api using CSOM and JSOM. The Javascript SP.MountPoint api allows us to create a shortcut url containing the link. [InternetShortcut] URL=https://***.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/mountpoint.aspx?site=9377021dbbfe4c65bf2910274e2b5ca4&web=5f698c8ec9544498bea63d6e2dc6fb23&item=17cb837e3d204e3ebb3b650ac2922a7d The above contains the link to the _layouts/15/mountpoint.aspx which takes the following parameters, Site Id. Web Id Item Id When clicked the link will

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How to use the SharePoint MountPoint API to create a shortcut to a file or folder

As noticed on a TechNet forum post, the August 2015 CU for SharePoint 2013 has a new regression with attaching files to List Items. This can be reproduced with a Custom List (possibly others) by creating a new List Item, clicking “Attach File”, identify any file that contains characters not listed in KB905231, then click OK. The error

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SharePoint 2013 List Attachment Error, Issues with the August 2015 Cumulative Updates