Before you begin, please check if your SharePoint farm SQL servers are using Dynamic memory on ESX or Hyper-V. If yes – Turn it OFF! And check if it helped. Launch AppFabric PowerShell console and execute: Use-CacheCluster Get-CacheHost Check if Cluster is ‘UP’, If not then: Start-CacheHost –ComputerName [yourServerName] –CachePort 22233 then get your SharePoint farm

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Repair corrupted SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache cluster

Sharing, a new concept in SharePoint 2013, allows users (who have the correct rights) to share the Site, List/Library or item/file with other users. However, the process and user experience is not always the same. It is important to understand the differences in each method. Especially for administrators/site owners, this can become a bit of

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Sharing in SharePoint 2013

Free Apress ebook:  Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud  By Matt Katzer , Don Crawford Written for the IT professional and business owner, this book provides the business and technical insight necessary to migrate your business to the cloud using Microsoft Office 365. This is a practical look at cloud migration

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Free Apress ebook: Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud

I was looking into the option of auto deploying an custom developed app at the time of creating a site in O365 / SP2013 environment. Scenario: 1. Custom app (MVC – Azure hosted) – Need to deploy it automatically so that it can customise the site created using a site template. (i.e. attaches the remote

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Office 365 – SharePoint 2013 – Autoinstall an app at the time of creating a subsite – LoadAndInstallApp

In our University environment we decided to pre-configure MySites for our 18,000+ users across 30 different content databases using a Powershell script. While running a file to update composed looks, our log file indicated that 13 MySites weren’t created. These users all had a site collection under our MySite host web application, however, clicking on

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How to delete orphaned Mysites

Promoted Links – Tiles view webpart is one of the easiest way to present the new Tile interface to the user.  The default view only renders the Tiles horizontally and to have wrapped tile view, we have to customise it. For our O365 project, we have customised the Tiles view using the following Javascript. Default

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How to create a wrapped tile-view for the ‘Multiple Promoted Links’ webpart in a page