As SharePoint Online matures into a viable alternative to its on-premises counterpart, many people are asking the question Which version is right for my organization? As is usually the case, the answer is “It depends”. Too often we see this decision being made solely on one criteria (i.e. cost) and not taking into account all of

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SharePoint 2013 On-Premises Vs. SharePoint Online – Which One is Right For My Organization?

I was working on SharePoint 2013 pilot project and I need to integrate customized HTML into Master page for this (publishing site). SharePoint 2013 comes up with new feature called “Design Manager” (This feature available only for publishing site). In SharePoint 2010 we have an option to create a customized master page using SharePoint Designer 2010 (in

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A guide explaining how to create a new customized Master Page in SharePoint 2013

Visual Studio allows developers to deploy/publish Apps to a site (site collection) which has been created using the ‘Developer Site Template’. Recently, I was working with a SharePoint 2013 App for one of my customers. The App was developed using Visual Studio 2013 and published on Developer Site Collection (On O365) to test the functionality.

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How to publish a SharePoint App to a ‘non-developer’ Site Collection

When performing the SharePoint 2013 SP1 upgrade, I received the following error in the Upgrade log file (modified for readability): INFO Updating the ‘IntranetPool’ application pool to run in integrated mode. SPIisWebSiteWssSequence ajywk ERROR Action 4.0.14.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPIisWebSiteWssSequence failed. Upgrade SPIisWebSiteWssSequence ajywk ERROR Exception: The system cannot find the path specified. Upgrade SPIisWebSiteWssSequence ajywk ERROR    at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail)     at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind()     at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject()     at System.DirectoryServices.PropertyValueCollection.PopulateList()     at

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SharePoint 2013 SP1 update error in Config Wizard step 9

One of the developers ran into an error with Management Reporter while he was trying to publish publish a report link to SharePoint. It threw the error: “Unable to create the related report link in: https://(Server_name)/mysite” We all know that Management Reporter is an integrated support output destination for SharePoint. The report allows you to

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SharePoint SSL (https://) Not Supported – Management Reporter 2012