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Multiple Login Prompts in SharePoint

Problem In  your SharePoint environment you see lots of login boxes, sometimes two, three, and even four.  Very often uses enter their credentials several time only to see a page with a broken image or they simply hit cancel and magically see a perfectly normal SharePoint page.  This is obviously not a critical issue but can be annoying to your users especially when they are visiting a site to which they should not be required to login. Explanation Some of the possible cause...

How to Show the Edit Menu

Problem On a regular basis I have clients tell me that they don’t have rights to edit a list item. On further investigation it is quite clear that they do have the necessary rights they just don’t see the edit menu on the view that you, or another administrator has made available to them. Explanation This usually happens in SharePoint implementations where sites are created off of a template. This template has views that present data with the edit menu shown below. When users don’t...