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I was doing some research on Power View capabilities recently and came across some good blogs on it, thought I will compile and share it: Video Series: Visualizing the Summer Olympics. Microsoft Senior Program Manager Sean Boon created a good blog series on Power View. He talks about how you can set...

I was trying to get the new workflow engine installed and configured with SharePoint 2013 but was encountering an error in the Service Bus configuration step. Installation Instruction for Workflow Manager and SharePoint 2013 Workflow Configuration: The full installation steps are provided here (in a...

Navigating through a list or library with dozens or hundreds of items or folders can be a tedious task. There are a few ways to make it easier to find the information you are looking for. One unique way is to build a rolodex to filter the list items conveniently. The rolodex is configured by using [...

I recently installed and configured a small SharePoint farm containing two virtual servers using Oracle Virtual Box and decided to share my experience of the process. For the most part the configuration is simple, but there are a number of common small discrepancies that can be the difference between...

So you say you can't populate a list declaratively in SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed solutions? Blog Post by: Duke

Visio Professional 2013 allows users to bind dynamic data to shapes, external images, sheets, graphs, and just about anything else you can put in a Visio doc. Out of the box, Visio provides some data graphics which allows you to display this data visually. The exhaustive list of data graphics provided...

After wrestling with this tonight for sometime I’ve finally cracked it. SP2013 RTMed and alot of the sample code fails due to the fact that you need to now add ‘..;odata=verbose’ onto pretty much every call to SharePoint. Basically you get a series of errors such as: MIME type could not be found that...

  To resolve this error follow these resolution tips: 1. On central admin, go to manage services on server, start and stop the user profile service and user profile synchronization service. This will re-provision the UPS 2. If you havent reset IIS after configuration via AutoSPInstaller, try iisreset...

While on SharePoint 2013 training we came across all the different ways of calling SharePoint and it’s data through JavaScript, JQuery and all the bits. It was all looking good until we needed to update sharepoint – e.g. a list, a list item etc. The MS Course notes say – “if you’re in SharePoint you...

Hi folks, I’m just blown away by all the goodies in these 2 releases 1) the SP1 2) the Feature Pack SP1 Both have some pretty big improvements, especially around the SharePoint 2013 <-> SQL scenario and pivot tables, analysis, mining etc. There’s even SQL Services that continuously copy data from...

A couple weeks ago, I was building a stock quote for a master page that required two images stored in /Style Library/Custom/; the images represented the typical stock quote arrows. In order to provide the JavaScript code with the correct location of the site collection’s root I was using the following...

Here's something I go this morning which I think is a SharePoint error: Blog Post by: Mick Badran

I recently ran into an interesting one while building some InfoPath forms for SP2010/2013 forms services. I wanted to return some Rich Text (XHTML) fields back from a WCF WebService call. I was at the point as a developer, where I couldn’t even say ‘ Works on my machine… ’. The problem was – no matter...

1. Open PeopleResults.aspx page in edit mode   2. Click on the refinement panel drop down and click on Edit Web Part 3. On the People Refinement Panel Editor, expand the Refinement panel 4. Click on the Elipses (…) on the Filter Category Definition 5. Change the FilterCategories XML Copy the XML...

Good reference on MSDN documentation for guidance on good coding practices for SharePoint: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973248.aspx#sharepointobjmodel__otherobjectsthatrequiredisposal The SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool can give false positives (or negatives) so this documentation should...

Overview Ever have to deal with Crawled Properties in PowerShell, or look through FAST Search FFDumper logs and try to figure out what the type numbers mean?  I have found a couple of random blog posts that cover some, but not all of them, and I’ve tried to find a definitive list. I finally came...

Overview FAST Search Server 2010 comes with a web application for executing FQL queries against the FAST index, called QRServer.  One of our clients was having an issue executing FQL queries, only getting data back that was being crawled by the FAST Web Crawler, and none of the SharePoint data being...

Problem Description Crawls in our Fast Search content all of the sudden started “hanging”, and reporting reporting 0 successful crawls, with some errors.  We were seeing no errors to speak of in the event logs or in the ULS logs on either SharePoint server, and the FAST Server was reporting no errors...

Overview When we were attempting to crawl an RSS feed for a client using the FAST Web Crawler, we found the following error in our RSS Crawl Logs (located at \FASTSearch\var\log\crawler\node\fetch\<content collection name>) “Invalid RSS MIME type: text/xml” We found that the MIME type being indicated...

Overview While attempting to set up the FAST Web Crawler for a client, I was unable to find a way to force FAST to re-crawl data immediately.  The web crawler uses an internal scheduler to schedule fetch operations. There are a large number of options for the crawleradmin.exe command line tool that...

Overview The most effective way to crawl RSS Content in a SharePoint / FAST Farm is to use the FAST Web Crawler.  The FAST Web crawler is a component supplied with FAST that is administered completely outside of SharePoint on the FAST server itself. Configuration In order to configure an RSS Crawl...

Normal 0 false false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I have a client scenario where weird 3 rd party system 1, sends me an update of some information, from time to time, about a user, this information needs to be instantly replicated into SharePoint. I could use BCS but it...

I need to access the SharePoint user profile service. SharePoint quite nicely exposes: http://{Server}/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx It is authenticated, quite rightly so, however the user I am accessing it with has permissions, however it still asks for username and password. I was getting this error...

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Publishing an InfoPath form to SharePoint 2010 is not that difficult, that is difficult is getting it published, when it has code behind for the use in the Web Browser. I recently battled with this, and I must say it’s better than...

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