Had an interesting user problem yesterday/today where a user could no longer use the Actions>Open in Explorer View on a document library. For information purposes, this was a MOSS2007 environment. The user in question had full permissions to the library. He had previously been using this feature in IE10. He decided to rollback to IE9
In the last article of this series, I alluded that more could be done in SharePoint on Web Applications with the aid of PowerShell. Most developers and admins of SharePoint 2013 are familiar with the PowerShell’s take-over of the “STSAdm-like” functionality of creating and maintaining SharePoint; however, what I am exploring are some in-roads into
I have three servers for SharePoint FARM setup: mySPDb-SRV -> Database Server mySPAP-SRV -> Application server as well as WFE1 mySPWFE-SRV -> WFE2 I need to configure the search on the above FARM topology. My central admin is on my Application server. So I have decided to configure Search on Application server and attach the
I have been working on an assignment and currently running in KAP phase of my assignment. You all know KAP phase is very important and need to run thoroughly with better care because it builds base of operation support. I always regard “KAP without proper attention is a big GAP”. As discussed in my last articles Phases
Sometime back I got a chance to work on Capacity Planning for SharePoint 2010, we did lot of analysis to come up with the right Topology and Architecture. I would like to share some of same experience here, which might help others as well. Below would be some Topics I will cover in this 1.
Introduction The Distributed Cache service provides caching features in SharePoint Server 2013. The Distributed Cache service is built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service. Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2013. This is how Microsoft defined the Distributed Cache service but what is depend on the Distributed
I was recently doing some troubleshooting for a SharePoint/TFS Environment that changed from HTTP to a secure environment of HTTPS. That caused several issues for SharePoint, but one of the issues was the fact that all of the existing sites still had the old URL in them for the SharePoint alerts. Hmmm….How do we fix
I was trying to open SharePoint Designer 2013 from Site Action (As usually do with SP-2010) but found that this link is no more in SharePoint 2013 site. I then decided to traverse the master page and found that Menu Item for SharePoint Designer is missing from Seattle.master( This is default master page for SharePoint
Here is the screen by screen guide to import a Azure BACPAC database to a local machine using SQL Server 2012 management studio. Required Tools / Data: SQL Server 2012 management studio with the latest version of SSDT. ( Note: Make sure the SQL Server 2012 Management studio is upto date. Otherwise while importing
Sometimes trying to accomplish a simple task isn’t as intuitive or easy as we may like in SharePoint. A case in point is how, exactly, does a Moderator or site owner delete a Community Site member? There is no “Delete a Member” button or link in the UI: Clicking on the Members link is fruitless:
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