SharePoint 2010, 2013 “Open with Windows Explorer” button is greyed out disabled
INTRODUCTION I have a task of moving documents out of a folder to another folder. I figure that the quickest way of doing this is by using the Windows Explorer feature in SharePoint. The button is available from the “Library” tab within a document library. Unfortunately this button is disabled when I opened that tab. […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint 2010 2013 AD Updated, User Profile Updated but not My Settings or WSS Profile or Welcome User Text
INTRODUCTION I have updated a user’s details in Active Directory (in this instance surname and email). I re-run the User Profile sync service and all is well. When I check the User Profile in User Profile Service Application the details are all updated correctly. When the user login to SharePoint however, the “Welcome” text still […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint 2013 InfoPath GetUserProfileService.asmx Error 500 Internal Server Error – Unauthorized or User with the Account Name Could Not Be Found
INTRODUCTION I’m in the process of migrating a SharePoint 2010 site to 2013. Within the site are several InfoPath forms that need to also be migrated to 2013. The migration was all easy except when I start filling the InfoPath form, I get an error querying the web service. After some investigations I found out […]
Continue ReadingXsltListViewWebPart and custom XSLT for List View Web Part, Paging Control Top and Bottom
INTRODUCTION Hi guys, I have this requirement from the client to display the paging control on Top and Bottom on list view (or document libraries). By default SharePoint only displays the paging at the bottom. This article details on how to do it on both list view page or list view web part. What you […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint 2010 2013 Feature Stapling Custom Web Templates Not Displayed
INTRODUCTION I upgraded my SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013. One of the features I’ve built installs custom web site templates that are meant to be available from Create Site page. After upgrading somehow my custom web templates are not displaying. SOLUTION SharePoint 2013 can run in SharePoint 2010 mode except for that web templates, […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint 2013 SSL policy errors have been encountered. Error code ‘0x2’
INTRODUCTION I created a self-signed certificate for my SharePoint 2013 sites. When I accessed the site it returned blank! Nothing! Then I checked Event Viewer and I get the following error: SSL policy errors have been encountered. Error code ‘0x2’.. RESOLUTION Go to your SharePoint site web.config and add the following line within <system.net> tag: […]
Continue ReadingHow to Configure SQL Server 2012 2008 R2 Cluster for SharePoint 2013 2010
INTRODUCTION SQL Clustering is awesome for HA (high availability). In this instance I was tasked to install and configure Production DMZ environment for my client’s Internet sites. We want to use clustering so that it improves availability (ie. when the main SQL server goes down, the second one can be up and running straight away). […]
Continue ReadingHow to Export SharePoint Metadata from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 (Different Farm)
INTRODUCTION I have just done a site migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. One of the features the SP 2010 site was using was Managed Metadata field. Obviously, when you migrate a SharePoint site to a completely different farm (not to mention different SharePoint version), you have to also migrate the Managed Metadata database […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint User Profile Search Error: Property does not exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings
INTRODUCTION I just upgraded my SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013. One of the functionalities that my SharePoint 2010 site had was People search. The restore to SP 2013 was successful. However, when I tried to do People search the Core Search Results web-part displays the following error message: Property does not exist or is […]
Continue ReadingRestore to SharePoint 2013 – Custom FBA Login Page Error – Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel
INTRODUCTION I have just installed SharePoint 2013 and I’m now in the process of migrating sites. One of the sites has FBA Authentication setup with custom login page. In the custom login page I use SPClaimsUtility.AuthenticateFormsUser to authenticate the user. The site was restored OK in SP 2013 except when I tried to login using […]
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