The Solution Architect

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 […]

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SharePoint 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 […]

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SharePoint 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 […]

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August 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 […]

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SharePoint 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.     […]

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SharePoint 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 […]

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SharePoint 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 […]

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Manage 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 […]

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SharePoint 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 […]

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SharePoint 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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