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Integrate Yammer with on-premises SharePoint 2013 environments

2013-08-08T10:50:00.001-05:00

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39357

This white paper addresses how to replace the social features in SharePoint Server 2013 with equivalent Yammer features in a SharePoint Server 2013 on-premises deployment

What is SkyDrive Pro in SharePoint 2013 | Sharegate's Blog

2013-06-03T09:26:00.001-05:00

What is SkyDrive Pro in SharePoint 2013 | Sharegate's Blog

Great explanation by the author Benjamin Niaulin. Thank you!

Adding your own links to SharePoint 2013 suite bar

2013-05-10T16:38:00.002-05:00

Adding your own links to SharePoint 2013 suite bar

Setting up Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013 development offline

2013-05-10T16:35:00.003-05:00

From Tim Quinlan

My findings in Microsoft world: Using AutoSPInstall to install SharePoint 2013

2013-05-09T16:45:00.001-05:00

My findings in Microsoft world: Using AutoSPInstall to install SharePoint 2013: Overview In the past most of us doing the SharePoint 2010 development work have used AutoSPInstall from codeplex http://autospinstalle...

Sohel's Blog: SharePoint 2013: Workflow Manager Installation and Configuration

2013-05-06T10:58:00.001-05:00

Sohel's Blog: SharePoint 2013: Workflow Manager Installation and Configuration

SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Installation and Conifguration

2013-04-30T13:30:00.000-05:00

From Liam Cleary [SharePoint MVP]

Part 1: http://blog.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=66
Part 2: http://blog.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=67

Versioning Your Published InfoPath Forms

2013-04-25T16:37:00.001-05:00

Versioning Your Published InfoPath Forms

Infopath template has version number, you can see the number via Form Options/Versioning. Also whenever you publish the infopath form, the version number is incremented.

A good practice of designing infopath form template is to show the version number on the form. You can add a calculated value field to the bottom of the form and set its default value to

substring-before(substring-after( /processing-instruction()[local-name(.)
  = "mso-infoPathSolution"], 'solutionVersion="'), '"')

Sohel's Blog: SharePoint 2010: Configure Kerberos Authentication...

2013-04-25T15:19:00.001-05:00

Step by step instructions on how to configure Kerberos Authentication with SharePoint 2010

Sohel's Blog: SharePoint 2010: Configure Kerberos Authentication...: SharePoint 2010 supports two authentication mode: Classic mode and Claims based. Today I’m going to explain how to configure Kerberos authen...

IE 8 shows javascript error when displaying SharePoint 2007 site

2013-04-19T16:46:00.002-05:00

All the way to the left of the IE status bar, there is a yellow exclamation mark with "Error on page." text. Double click on the text brings up a popup showing "Element not found" error in init.js file.

How to fix: run Office Diagnostics: Diagnose and repair crashing Office programs by using Office Diagnostics

If above does not fix the problem, then try repair the Office installation by going to the Control Panel.

If your installation of Office has custom or 3rd party add-ons, consult your administrator before running the Office repair, since the repair can potentially break those add-ons.

Your mileage may vary and good luck!

Synchronizing User Image Between Active Directory And SharePoint Profile

2013-04-04T10:39:00.000-05:00

Very good read:

http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/synchronizing-user-image-between-active-directory-and-sharepoint-profile/

jQuery Primer for SharePoint

2013-03-19T16:57:00.000-05:00

http://sharepointmagazine.net/series/a-jquery-primer-for-sharepoint

Get-SPScripts : PowerShell Scripts for SharePoint: Copy SharePoint lists and document libraries from ...

2013-03-19T16:36:00.001-05:00

Get-SPScripts : PowerShell Scripts for SharePoint: Copy SharePoint lists and document libraries from ...: This article is the first in a series on exporting and importing SharePoint objects using the Content Deployment API and PowerShell. I’m not...

How to: Set up People Search in SharePoint 2013

2013-03-18T13:41:00.000-05:00

Good article by Corey Roth

Here is the link: http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2013/01/03/how-to-set-up-people-search-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

Make a radio button in InfoPath form read only

2013-03-14T11:17:00.001-05:00

Conditional formatting is the answer. To set the control to always be disabled do the following:

Right click on your field and select Rules
Create a new formatting rule and click Condition
Choose The expression from the dropdown
type true() or 1 in the text field (this tells InfoPath to always apply this formatting)
Check the Disable this control checkbox.
Click OK

Increase list attachment size limit

2013-01-29T15:06:00.001-06:00

For document library, to increase the maximum upload size, the following change should be sufficient:

Central Admin > Application Management > Web Application General Settings, select the web application, set the Maximum Upload Size to the new value then hit OK.

In order to upload attachment with size greater than 50 MB, in addition to changes above, we also need to modify the web.config file. In the web.config file, replace with

There are other factors to consider when adjusting the maximum upload size, such as disk space, site quota, execution timeout, etc.

User Profile between SharePoint and AD out of synch

2013-01-16T15:33:00.002-06:00

There are many reasons that user profile information displayed in SharePoint may be out of synch with the information in AD. One such reason is name change because of marriage.

If the Account Name is changed, you can use the "stsadm -o migrateuser -oldlogin xxx\abc -newlogin xxx\xyz -ignoresidhistory" command to migrate the old user to the new user.

For display name change, deleting the user from the site collection user information list should fix the problem. You can access this hidden list by going to http://xxx/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx page.

To delete the user, go to: http://xxx/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?Force=True&ID=xyz make sure id is correct for the user, then click "Delete User from Site collection".

You may also want to delete the user from the user profile of the central

administration too.

This post from Todd Klindt explains above stsadm command really well.

See also http://blogs.c5insight.com/Home/tabid/40/entryid/181/How-to-Remove-a-User-from-a-SharePoint-2010-Site-Collection.aspx on how to remove a user from a SharePoint 2010 site collection.

Here is the basic steps from above post:

As a site collection administrator, click Site Actions –> Site Permissions
Click into any existing group (like site Owners). The URL will be something like http://server/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupID=28.
Change the 28 to a 0. The list should now show you All People.
Find the user, click the checkbox by their name. Click Actions, Delete Users from Site Collection.
Now add the user back to the appropriate group.

The following powershell commands may be handy too:

Set-SPUser -Identity ‘Domain\username’ -DisplayName ‘Last, First’ –Web http://SharePointSe rver*
This forces a manual sync of properties from AD

Set-SPUser -Identity ‘Domain\username’ –Web http://SharePointServer –SyncFromAD*

To force Sync of all users,
Get-SPUser –Web http://SharePointServer | Set-SPUser –SyncFromAD*

Sharepoint Fault Handler in vs 2008

2013-01-10T17:02:00.000-06:00

Please see Sharepoint Fault Handler in vs 2008

Also below is a copy.

Fault Handler
To get more detailed information about this error, it is necessary to add a Fault Activity (equivalent of a catch block) and to log it.
Select the workflow in the (Visual Studio) Workflow Designer, click on the lower left side of the Designer and click on the Fault Handler:

Another view of the Workflow Designer will show up:

Drag and drop a FaultHandler activity from the Workflow Foundation toolbox into fautlHandlersActivity1 :

In the property page of this last activity select the FaultType property by browsing the mscrolib assembly:

Select System.Exception:

Now we will log the StackTrace into the workflow history log: drag and drop a LogHistoryList activity into the handler (if you don’t find this activity drag and drop the microsoft.Sharepoint.WorkflowAction.dll assembly to a new Visual Studio toolbox tab) :

Select the logToHistoryListActivity1 and set its HistoryOutcome property to the stack trace value of faultHandlerActivity1:

Rebuild the solution , redeploy (install.bat) and test the workflow.

The trace will show up in the workflow status :

Controls on the InfoPath Task Edit Form Not Persisting Values

2012-12-18T10:46:00.000-06:00

The SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio workflow uses an InfoPath form as the task edit form. On the form, values of some of the controls are persisted once the task edit form is submitted, but values of some other ones are not. For instance, input a value into a textbox then submit the task edit form, then open the task edit form again, the textbox is empty, the inputted value is gone.

It turns out that the problem is caused by the column name of the task list of the workflow. Let's say there is a textbox on the InfoPath task edit form, the textbox is bound to ClientName field and default value for ClientName field is ows_ClientName via the ItemMetadata.xml file. If the workflow task list has a column named ClientName, then the value of the textbox is not persisted. For unknown reason, the workflow engine can't process ExtendedProperties["ClientName"] correctly.

Solution: The column name of the workflow task list should not be the same name from ItemMetadata.xml file, without the ows_ prefix, if the value of the control bound to the entry in ItemMetadata.xml file needs to be persisted.

How to retrieve a reference to the SearchServiceApplicationProxy

2012-12-18T10:09:00.000-06:00

Excerpt from this page:
http://dotnetmafia.sys-con.com/node/1498722/mobile

I think the new best practice will be to pass a reference to the SearchServiceApplicationProxy. The trick of course is getting that reference. First, you need to determine the name of your Search Service Application. For a typical Enterprise Search installation it is called Search Service Application. However, it can be called anything depending on how you configured SharePoint. For FAST, it might be called something like FAST Content SSA. Go to Central Administration –> Service Applications and take a look.

The proxy will usually have the same name as the Service Application, so in my case here the name of my proxy is Search Service Application. Now we just can’t get a reference to the SearchServiceApplicationProxy directly. We have to go through the SearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceProxy class first. According to the SDK, the function of going through this service is to ensure queries are load balanced. Here is how you get a reference to the query and settings proxy. It also assumes this code is executing on one of the servers in the farm.

SearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceProxy settingsProxy = SPFarm.Local.ServiceProxies.GetValue<SearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceProxy>();

Now that we have a reference to the settings proxy, we can get a reference to the SearchServiceApplicationProxy with the name of the proxy that we saw above. Change the name to match whatever yours is called.

SearchServiceApplicationProxy searchProxy = settingsProxy.ApplicationProxies.GetValue<SearchServiceApplicationProxy>("Search Service Application");

Now you can pass this proxy to the constructor of the KeywordQuery or FullTextSqlQuery.

Best Practices to Change App Pool Account for SharePoint Web Application

2012-12-10T12:06:00.001-06:00

Basically, you should make the change via Central Admin/Security/Configure service accounts. After you make the change on that page (Credential Management), you need to do "iisreset /noforce" on all SharePoint servers.

SharePoint makes lots of changes behind the scene after you make the change on the Credential Management page. This link gives a very good rundown.

How to Auto-Populate a SharePoint 2010 Contacts list from User Profile Data

2012-12-03T09:23:00.001-06:00

How to Auto-Populate a SharePoint 2010 Contacts list from User Profile Data from C5 Insight

SharePoint Kings: How to make My group task webpart from My task

2012-11-29T11:44:00.001-06:00

To display the tasks assigned to the groups that the user belongs to.

1. Add content query web part on the page.
2. Edit that web part. In Query section select Source as task list (you can browse and select task list)
3. Set Additional Filter with “Assigned To” --> “is equal to” --> [Me]
4. Apply it

Now if you see that web part must looks like normal task web part.

Now export that web part.

Save it on your pc.

It should have .webpart extension.

Open it with notepad(or any editor)

Find QueryOverride property. (it must be blank) like this <property name="QueryOverride" type="string" /> now add below query inside <property name="QueryOverride" type="string" ></property> here is the query <Or> <Eq> <FieldRef Name="AssignedTo"/><Value Type="Integer"><UserID/></Value> </Eq> <Membership Type="CurrentUserGroups"><FieldRef Name="AssignedTo"/></Membership> </Or>

SharePoint Kings: How to make My group task webpart from My task: Hi, We all are using my task web part (superb out of the box web part) but most of the time we are having requirement where a task is ass...

Reset FAST Search Server for SharePoint (FS4SP) Index

2012-11-14T15:19:00.000-06:00

First, need to reset the index in Central Administration / Application Management / Manage Service Applications, then click your FAST Search content SSA, then click Index Reset.

We are not done yet, we also need to manually clear the content from the content collection that our FAST Search Content Search Service Application feeds to. The default collection name is sp.

To clear a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection, log onto the server that hosts FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint and follow this procedure.

Clear the content collection

Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell command prompt, type the following command:
Clear-FASTSearchContentCollection -Name
Where:
- is the content collection you are about to clear.
Wait for the command to finish. This may take some time.

After all of above is finished, then we can start new crawls.

SharePoint List View Filter Order of Precedence

2012-11-13T11:30:00.000-06:00

This blog post explains the order of precedence of list view filters, with good example.

Here are the basic rules I copied from above post:

1. All logical operations occur from top to bottom.
2. Earlier logical operations are nested within later logical operations.