The Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment SPImport class fails when calling the ImportNavigationXml method

The Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment SPImport class fails when calling the ImportNavigationXml method.

This will be triggered whenever a user opens the Navigation page under Site Settings of a SharePoint site and clicks the “OK” button, even without making changes. Any future export and attempt to import the site will fail with a root cause being a SQL exception:

System.Data.SqlException (0x80131904): Invalid length parameter passed to the RIGHT function.

Information indicates that a assumption made in this SQL function causes a negative number to be passed in and an exception occurs.

No combination of navigation settings, including all menu items seems to resolve the issue. It seems to be one of three core navigation nodes being passed in that triggers the exception.

Visual Studio .Net 2013 – Login fails with error “Browser is security restricted or JavaScript is disabled”

After installing Visual Studio .Net 2013 onto a Windows Server 2012 system for doing SharePoint 2013 development, I found I was unable to login with my MSDN profile to Visual Studio.  Instead I received a cryptic and unhelpful error message “Browser is security restricted or JavaScript is disabled”.  I searched the web a little and found assorted solutions which seemed to have assorted results, and finally I found that the problem went away when I turned off “IE Enhanced Security Configuration” from the Server Manager.  I was able to then restart Visual Studio and log in with out a problem.

I actually found this as a solution for a number of times when I was having issues activating Microsoft Office 2013 also.