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To prevent Enterprise keyword fields from offering suggestions from a team set then unckeck this setting  Office 2010/2013 can integrate with Managed Metadata site column If you want to use Content type hubs then you need to activate this site collection feature :Content Type Hub Syndication feature.

Farm Information: Web Application published internally and externally (so make sure both URLs added to  Alternate Access Mapping ) Office Web Apps 2013 (Published externally via  TMG 2010  and internally) I have a farm which connected to Office Web Apps 2013 and It's working fine internally so then we decided to enable it to open Office Web Apps externally by the following steps : 1- In Office Web Apps Server , Open Power Shell and run this command to add the External URL to existing Farm: Set-OfficeWebAppsFarm -ExternalURL  http://test.com/  2-In SharePoint Server , Open SharePoint 2013 Management Shell and run the following commands:  Remove-SPWOPIBinding –All:$true New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName OfficeWebAppServer.com -AllowHTTP Set-SPWopiZone internal-http $c = Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig $c.AllowOAuthOverHttp = $true $c.Update()  then when I tried to access the Office documents from External URL I got the following error ...

Image Renditions Good Ref : http://blog.mastykarz.nl/image-renditions-sharepoint-2013/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj720398.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj720392.aspx http://sp2013.blogspot.com/2012/07/image-renditions.html Required to enable Blob Cache IFrame Support Good Ref : http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2012/11/24/how-to-use-iframes-in-sharepoint-2013/ SEO ,Friendly URLs and SiteMap Good Ref : http://blog.mastykarz.nl/search-engine-optimization-sharepoint-2013/ http://www.informedconsulting.nl/blog/?p=283 Managed Navigation Good Ref : http://blog.robgarrett.com/2012/09/23/sharepoint-2013-managed-navigation / Cross Site Publishing Good Ref : http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1038 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/justinvoels/archive/2012/09/24/sharepoint-2013-search-driven-publishing-and-cross_2d00_site-collection-publishing-overview.aspx http://blog.mastykarz.nl/easier-working-assets-cros...

I have got this error while trying to install SharePoint 2013 What is Max Degree of Parallelism ? When an instance of SQL Server runs on a computer that has more than one microprocessor or CPU, it detects the best degree of parallelism, that is, the number of processors employed to run a single statement, for each parallel plan execution. You can use the  max degree of parallelism  option to limit the number of processors to use in parallel plan execution. SQL Server considers parallel execution plans for queries, index data definition language (DDL) operations, and static and keyset-driven cursor population. Read this for more details http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189094.aspx How to fix it ? Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Login with sysadmin user Right Click on instance name and select properties >> Advanced Change  Max Degree of Parallelism  to 1 Restart the SQL Service

It goes without saying that every part of an enterprise relies on technology. With more and more technology providers coming to the fore, it is not uncommon to find a variety of technology platforms across the units of an enterprise. To keep the pieces of the enterprise moving together there is often a need for integrating the platforms, which are built by different providers. This blog provides a brief overview of ServiceNow, and what is involved in integrating ServiceNow and SharePoint 2013. What is ServiceNow? ServiceNow is a software platform that supports IT Service Management and automates common business processes. It’s a software as a service (SaaS) platform that offers targeted solutions for various units of an enterprise like IT, HR, Operations and IT Business Management. More than two thousand enterprises around the world use the ServiceNow platform extensively for their daily operations. ServiceNow brings the following key benefits for an enterprise: • Improves service ...

Scenario : We were working for a client, they had many groups and we had to build a collaboration portal for all the groups. Key thing was few sites of some groups were already present in SharePoint 2010 in different standalone servers. Migration was a key thing here as the existing sites has huge data, and huge user base. The Requirement was to build a portal /web application which will have migrated sites and new set of sites as per agreed site structure. According to the agreed architecture and design we created a new web application and started building the site hierarchy. As part of this we followed the regular approach database detach –attach method and migrated the existing SharePoint 2010 site .Migration was successful and we were able to access the site  with the system account. Later we tried with couple of site admin accounts, to our surprise we were getting “ACCESS DENIED” with any other user id. Background: By default when we create a web application in Sha...

I had a task to create a proof of concept environment for SharePoint 2013 for a presentation to a top level exec. Installed and Configured a SharePoint 2013 farm on couple of VM's with dedicated WFE/APP and SQL Server boxes, as this will be used as a POF and the reqcuirements were not clear how long the boxes will be used. MS has released the deployment guide for 2013 must read before thinking of creating a new farm. Created a new web application on the new farm and a root level Site Collection based on Team Site Template. Till this moment everything was looking good. On accessing the Site got the following error : SharePoint returned the following error: Invalid URI: The URI is empty. Contact your system administrator for help in resolving this problem. My first encounter with an issue on 2013 on a vanilla environment, thought it would be good to have this as a reference. To resolve this, I had to create and configure my site i.e. Created a new web app for my site C...

* Navigated to master page gallery http://appweburl/_catalogs/masterpage . * In master page gallery I have seen all master pages related to SharePoint 2013 (app.master, seattle.master, oslo.master..etc.). By default app web use app.master page. * Download app.master to your local and add CSS/JavaScript code to the master page. * Upload it to masterpage gallery again. * Added #DeltaSuiteLinks{display:none} style in the master page. It worked for me.  * But make sure check this before in Dev/Stage before updating the production.

Error : I have a Sharepoint 2013 running on a Windows Server 2012. Following issue appeared: I made a new Site-Collection as wiki. Everything (links,...) works fine on the server but when I want to access the wiki from outside (not localhost) the server runs in a 404 Not found error. http://localhost/sites/wiki/Pages/Home.aspx - works fine(localhost) http://10.38.0.15/sites/wiki/Pages/Home.aspx - doesn't work. I checked the IIS settings, all servers are up and running. The log file has no errors in it. Resolution : The most common cause for this is that you don't have the IIS host header configured correctly . The 404 will appear because you are hitting a different IIS web site and not the one you intended to. If you go into IIS Manager and click on " Sites " in the right hand pane there will be a column called bindings and a column called ID . IIS will check in the order of ID for the first site that matches. Make sure the default site is stopped ...

Once I was trying to send the attachments along with the email messages being sent to the SharePoint document library. All the configurations were proper and I had properly associated the document library with an email address. After the stage was properly setup for the document library to receive emails with the attachment, I tested the same and expected it to work just fine, but I did not get any success.  I did a quick research over the internet and found out the solution from the MSDN site. The reason mentioned was pretty straight forward. While associating a document library with an email address, the Directory Management Service might miss out adding the following two attributes: internet Encoding = 1310720 mAPIRecipient = false These two attributes must be added manually using the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI). Note: On Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) ...

People have liked the Organization Browser web part so much that they want the web part to be added to their companies main Portal web application. I too recently came across this interesting situation, wherein we were supposed to show the My Site Organization Browser web part inside our publishing site. It was a task that according to me was very small. Just add the Organization Browser web part from the Social Collaboration group (as shown in the figure below) in the webpage and you are sorted. I started working on it. As mentioned, I just added the web part from the Social Collaboration group, and whoa!!!.. I was done. Wait......there was something wrong. The Silverlight web part did not show anything inside it. There was no rendering done. I tried to do a lot of tweaking, but to avail no success : ( I started searching for the solution over the internet, and noticed that I was not the only one facing the problem. Instead there were many with the same problem. Finally I got s...

On a recent SharePoint 2013 deployment, I faced a strange issue, wherein the search index got corrupted and I was not able to reset the index. Although, I was able to get to the reset index screen and the reset index button was clickable, but each time it went into an infinite loop on clicking the reset index button, and the index was not reset. After much banging our heads and googling around, I found a small piece of information that really helped and did the trick. Below is a step-wise approach to resolve such an issue. Step-1 Stop the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service Step-2 Navigate to the cache folder in the following location: System Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config Step-3 Locate the folder that has the file “Cache.ini”. There may be multiple GUID folders with cache.ini file Step-4 Back up these folders with the Cache.ini file Step-5 Delete all the XML configuration files in the GUID folder Note: When you delete the xml ...

We all know that SharePoint doesn’t support saving publishing sites as a template . I don’t recommend doing that anyway as the produced template will have errors and isn’t reliable to be used in production to create new sites off of. However, sometimes as a developer you need to save a publishing site as a template to see how SharePoint packages things. This can help you build your own custom web template which is a neat thing and replaces the need to save a publishing site as template. Well, since the Save site as a template option is hidden from the publishing sites settings page we all used the following URL to go there directly: /_layouts/savetmpl.aspx Or /_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx Well, that is not going to work anymore in SharePoint 2013 if your site is a publishing site or have the publishing features activated . You basically get that following error: The “Save site as template” action is not supported on this site.   In order to get around th...

You can control which mode (2010 or 2013, or both) can be used when a user creates a site collection. The CompatibilityRange property on a web application controls the site modes available for a web application. You can view or change the settings for CompatibilityRange by using Windows PowerShell. check the following and let me know if helpful http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219599(v=office.15).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff191199(v=office.15).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219650(v=office.15).aspx If you upgrade from SharePoint Server 2010 to SharePoint Server 2013, there are special considerations for My Sites. (My Sites are not available in SharePoint Foundation 2013.) Make sure that you upgrade the My Site Host site collection before you allow users to access their individual My Sites in SharePoint Server 2013. This makes sure that the server software and database changes are complete so that users ca...

SharePoint 2010 and 2013 is having software boundary that we can't upload file bigger than 2 GB, so what if we have bigger files? To handle large files that are bigger than 2 GB there are few options you have: Use software to split files and then upload them and when you download them you will use the software to merge them again, there are available software to do the following Use File Share servers and from SharePoint create view to point to those file share servers. Upload files to cloud and inside SharePoint just add links to refer to those sites.

In SharePoint 2013, some service applications can be shared across server farms. By publishing a service application, you can optimize resources, avoid redundancy, and provide enterprise-wide services without installing a dedicated enterprise services farm. You can publish the following service applications in a SharePoint 2013 farm: Business Data Connectivity Machine Translation Managed Metadata User Profile Search Secure Store Additionally, a SharePoint 2010 farm can consume services from a SharePoint 2013 Server farm. This allows for upgrade of multi-farm environments in which a farm hosting service applications is upgraded first. In this scenario, the service applications and features that the SharePoint 2010 farm experiences are limited to those that are available in SharePoint 2010. For example, a SharePoint 2010 farm cannot consume the Machine Translation service application from a SharePoint Server 2013 farm and does not benefit from the new features of the User Prof...

One of the features of SharePoint that has been around is the ability for users that need access to a site, and are denied access, through the “Request Access” process . To enable or review these settings, * go to “ Settings ” > “ Site Settings ” > “ User and Permissions ” and click “ Access Request Settings ” . In the “ Access Request Settings ” dialog box, select the check box next to “ Allow access requests ” then provide an email address of the individual you’d like to manage this feature. * If a site has multiple groups with the same permission levels (Owners, Members and Viewers) but there is not an assigned default group, then you will see the problem where access requests will either not display for the impacted user or an owner will not be able to approve requests. Here’s a Windows PowerShell script to change each of the groups for a site so that each is identified as the default group for Members, Owners and Visitors You’ll need to a the “ Microsoft.S...

Intro to Host Name Site Collections (HNSC) * Host Name Site Collections are the answer to simplifying and consolidating SharePoint Farm/s.   Let’s assume a SharePoint Farm has 5 web applications each mapped to a unique application pool.   While this gives you a nice separation for security purposes, it adds unnecessary strain on each WFE.   E ach time an application pool is spun up, it must load all of the assemblies from memory.  * So in this case, each WFE is consuming 5x memory right off the bat.   The costs increase by having to procure beefy machines with lots of memory to support this requirement. * For many of our customers, this led to many multifarm environments due to hitting a cap in physical memory.   Also as you’ve experienced, the sheer # of web applications can lead to long patching cycles with PSConfig . * By consolidating web applications, your essentially cutting operations costs (faster patchin...