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7-8-2014: To find the accurate and updated information please refer to ' How to setup, configure and test SQL 2012 SSRS with SharePoint 2013 ' article. 5-12-2014: Please disregard this article. The information in it is not accurate for SharePoint 2013. You can find the correct information...

In a previous post we discussed what eDiscovery is and what is its place within SharePoint 2013. I will explain how to exercise an eDiscovery task using features provided by SharePoint. Before we begin, let’s break the features into 4 components. 1. eDiscovery site Templates If we take a...

In this post I will cover some basic concepts about service applications. Although some topics like history and differences between old SSP model and service application model are omitted as there are enough resources available. Following are the important keywords we should know Service...

Table of Contents Introduction Applies To Download Walkthrough References Introduction Ever wondered how many fields are referencing a Managed Metadata Termset? It's going to be a long and boring job using the Web UI to click through every web... and every list in every web... and every...

Table of Contents Introduction Applies To The two scenarios presented here Introduction to SMTP4Dev Installing SMTP4Dev Configure SharePoint Outbound email with SMTP4Dev running on Port 25 Configure SharePoint Outbound email with SMTP4Dev running on a Custom Port Configure SMTP4Dev to listen on a custom...

Table of Contents Problem Definition Steps to recreate the issue Resolution Background information Reference See Also Problem Definition Restore Deleted Site Collection without any backup/Restore mistakenly deleted Site Collection Steps to recreate the issue You have mistakenly deleted any...

The following snippet of PowerShell demonstrates getting the masterpage and custom masterpage (used on application pages) in use for a web. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell $site = Get-SPSite http://contoso.com $web = $site . RootWeb $web . CustomMasterUrl $web . MasterUrl $web ...

June 2014 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint 2013 June 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2013 has been released. Please find the below links to get the CU. KB 2881063 - SharePoint Foundation 2013 June 2014 CU (will be available soon) KB 2881061 - SharePoint Server 2013 June 2014 CU ...

Introduction? Recently the Business asked me to add the Yammer App on our On-Premises Infrastructure to see what the differences where between the cloud and app version. The Yammer App for SharePoint is free, but before you can use it on SharePoint pages an Office 365 global administrator should...

Scenario If a user makes a generic search for (eg:-India) then search results should display results from “SharePoint Results” as well as displays all the users who have the userprofile location field set to “India” Prerequisite A custom field “LocationUser” needs to be created...

I ran into a helpful PowerShell script today that I wanted share. When creating SharePoint 2013 sites, by default (maybe it’s our default) the Allow access requests checkbox is enabled. (You can find this by going to Site Settings -> Site Permissions -> Access Request Settings.) ...

Introduction Here are some tips on using Calculated columns based on an existing column in the list or Library. Calculated columns are always under used and we tend to write code (Calculation logics) for a column/field to achieve a goal which can be done OOB (out of the box). Example...

Save Site as a Template Open the site in SharePoint Designer 2013. From the tool bar click on Site Options. Select SaveSiteAsTemplateEnabled, click Modify and set value to true if it is false. Click OK, Click OK. Click Administration Web Page from tool bar. On the site settings page, click Master...

Please find below the PowerPoint session about my Webinar « SharePoint 2013 Release Distribution Process »

Issue In a certain situation, an exception is thrown, " A Content Type Which Does Not Belong To A Collection Cannot be Updated ", when adding columns to a content type programmatically. Doing a walk through of the code reveals the problem; a new content type was instantiated, then some...

Table of Contents Introduction General Solution Deployment Branding Document Library Site Management PowerShell SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Other languages Introduction This wiki has been created to consolidate the SharePoint PowerShell snippets we use on our day to day SharePoint activities...

Orphan sites are of two types, Content DB and Config DB orphan sites. Content DB orphan sites have entries of a site collection in content DB but no entries are found in Config Database siteMap table. Config DB orphan sites have entries of site collection in sitemap table, but no entries for...

Table of Contents Introduction The solution References Additional credit Introduction As it is right now, the SharePoint 2013 workflow management isn't exactly straight up using Powershell. The below code should aid in the understanding on how to work with it in its current state. ...

Lors d’une mise à jour, un besoin relativement récurrent est de pouvoir empêcher les utilisateurs d’accéder au site, tout en leur affichant un message "user-friendly". Il est possible de mettre en place cette fonctionnalité assez facilement : il vous suffit de placer une page nommée "App_Offline...

Table of Contents Exemples Déploiements "sélectifs" des solutions Résultat pour la partie "2013" Résultat pour la partie "2010" Références Conclusion Nous avons vu dans cet article que SharePoint 2013 proposait nativement une coexistence avec SharePoint 2010...

Introduction Have you ever had a SharePoint PowerShell script where you need to run a section of the script with elevated privileges (for example, under the security context of the farm service account), without being prompted to enter credential information? You can achieve this by running...

Table of Contents Caveats Credits As most of you will know, there are two basic types of workflow in SharePoint. Some workflows are authored in SharePoint Designer whilst others are created within Visual Studio. This article is aimed at those who author workflows in SPD. Each time a new...

An unattended installation is an automated installation of any kind of Microsoft product that you can use to install or upgrade. It can be an operating system or a software application with minimal or NO user intervention. Unattended installations are typically used during large-scale rollouts when...

Go back to Creating a Dev Environment Adjust Folder Settings to your liking. Open Windows Explorer Choose Tools > Folder Options... Also, on the General tab > Navigation pane section, click Show All folders. Also, in the Navigation pane section, click Automatically expand to current...

I have seen several inquiries out here on the internet, along with a few blogs where people have experienced issues when trying to slipstream SharePoint 2013 to the latest Cumulative Update, ex: October 2013 CU . As most of you may know, in order to get to the latest build, you must install March 2013...