The Baretta

On the 14th of May 2015, Yammer deployed an update to their Embed Yammer Feed script that stopped any Yammer Feeds on SharePoint 2010 from working.  In our case, the Yammer Feed got stuck on 'Loading...' This error that is causing the Yammer Feed to fail to load is: Object doesn't support property or method 'forEach' .  yam-platform-feed-57f4f449766511e4f91eb519a39b2781.js, line 480 character 19099 The reason this is happening is because SharePoint Master pages have a line of code which forces all Internet Explorer Browsers to run in IE8 Compatibility Mode.  This is done to ensure all the ribbon & SharePoint functionality continues to work on new browsers. The line of code in question:  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/> Hint: don't just remove this line of code!  you'll cause yourself a headache. The line that Yammer & Microsoft are taking is that if you plan to stick to SharePoint 2010, th...

We were getting an issue on one of our Test Server WFE's where we were having two issues: - If you were trying to load an InfoPath form that contained a connection to the GetUserProfileByName Web Service, it would fail. - If you tried to connect to the site via SharePoint Designer, it would error out. SO!  If you get any of the following issues: In SP Designer: "The server could not complete your request.  For more specific information, click the Details button." "An error occurred while trying to fetch data from your SharePoint site.  Unexpected response from the server.  The content type of the response is "", The status code is "OK"." On an InfoPath Form: "There has been an error while processing the form.  An error occurred while trying to connect to a Web service" In SharePoint Logs: "The following query failed: GetUserProfileByName (User: xx\username, Form Name: Template, IP: , Connection Target:...