The Catch of Developing Application Using SharePoint Web Services
INTRODUCTION For me SharePoint is such a great platform because not only does it have many built-in functionalities, it also allows integration of external systems and applications using various approaches such as web-parts, user controls, custom ASPX pages and web services. On this particular article I would like to discuss few gotchas that we need […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint Custom Internet/Intranet Website Master Page Ribbon Fixer
Developing websites on SharePoint 2010 and 2013 can be a bit difficult due to the ribbon and how the “wrapper” DIVs have been structured within the master page. And not only that, SharePoint 2010 sometimes clash with JQuery scripts which I have used a lot since there are a lot of cool controls that I […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint Best Practice Archive Summary 2007, 2010, 2013
INTRODUCTION In this article I would like to summarize as many SharePoint Best Practice that I’ve found throughout the Internet. Microsoft has released a dedicated page for it but it contains only links to various sites which I think is a bit rigorous to read. But anyway, if you’re interested this is the link from […]
Continue ReadingAugust 2012 Cumulative Updates Bugs – Site Timeout & Navigation Items Multiplied to Hundreds and Thousands
Hi everyone, just thought of letting you know that since the install of August 2012 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint Server 2010, a new bug is introduced. This has been verified by Microsoft themselves. I am currently working with a particular client to resolve the issues. Basically the issues are: site is suddenly inaccessible. It’s pretty […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint Performance Tuning 3 – Customizations
INTRODUCTION This is a series. The previous article can be found at Series 2. Now we’ve arrived at the customizations topic. Customisations obviously cover a broad range of topics. Therefore, in this particular article I want to discuss only the basic elements and some tips that we can do to increase performance. […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint Performance Tuning 2 – SharePoint Configuration
INTRODUCTION This is a series. The previous article can be found at Series 1. The next step that we have to be aware of after the hardware and topology configurations is the SharePoint Configuration itself. Please share your thoughts, too. SHAREPOINT CONFIGURATION Using different user accounts for different services ALWAYS use […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint Performance Tuning 1 – Hardware Requirements and Server Topology
INTRODUCTION Hi everyone, in this opportunity I would like to share with you some of the tips that can help us tuning our SharePoint Farm performance. This is a series. Please also note that all of the articles mentioned in this series are purely based on my experience and some readings that I’ve done […]
Continue ReadingManage User Profiles Not Displaying Any Results in RTM
In 2007 when you click on Manage User Profiles it displays ALL user accounts by default. In 2010 this isn’t the case. When you click on Manage User Profiles it says “There are no results to display” and I was a bit surprised when I first saw this because I thought the import wasn’t […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint 2010 RTM Still Requires SP_Farm to Run Profile Sync
I normally install Sharepoint with the following configuration: – Login using SP_Admin and install Sharepoint – SP_Farm is used to run Farm service In 2007 you can normally run Profile Sync with SP_Admin (account used to install Sharepoint) but in SP 2010 BETA this wasn’t the case. You have to logout and re-log back in using SP_Farm in order to run the […]
Continue ReadingSharePoint My Sites and Search Center, 404 Error Not Found
When you’re configuring My Sites make sure you put in /Pages/ in the Search Center site settings otherwise it will return you with 404 Not Found error. For example, if the Search Center site is set to http://moss2010:31000/ then you specify the following: http://moss2010:31000/Pages/ If it’s set as a sub-site collection, eg http://testsite/sites/SearchCenter then you specify the following: […]
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