SharePoint and related stuff

This blog will be discontinued

ms-okoestner — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:57:15 GMT

Since I left Microsoft by end of february I will no longer continue this blog. The last 10,5 years I have been with Microsoft and have had a lot of fun with a lot of really cool people. But by end of last year I was given the opportunity to join a great team from my former customer and so I decided to take the next step in my career by starting at the BWI GmbH on March, 1st, 2018. Any future blog post from me can be found at my new blog location: https://tech.koestner.it. And: Although I am writing this on April, 1st, this is not a joke ;)

SharePoint 2016 - Zero Downtime patching

ms-okoestner — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:19:14 GMT

If you want to learn how zero downtime patching works with SharePoint 2016 follow this link: https://aka.ms/zdupgrade. "This video explains how to patch a SharePoint Server 2016 HA farm from beginning to end, including the installation of the binary files on all servers, and the build-to-build (B2B) upgrade itself."

Create sample users in an Active Directory

ms-okoestner — Thu, 19 May 2016 12:48:21 GMT

For SharePoint demo environments or developer boxes it might be usefull to have a couple of users in the Active Directory of the specific box. You can find a link to the PowerShell script at the bottom of this post. The script will create demo users and a (very) basic set of service accounts needed for installing SharePoint. The result will look like this: PowerShell-Script

The RPC Server is unavailable

ms-okoestner — Tue, 17 May 2016 18:10:15 GMT

When installing SharePoint Server 2016 on Azure hosted VM in a single server Environment with AD Directory Services and SQL Server on the same box the configuration wizart might fail at step 3 (creating configuration database) with an error like "The RPC Server is unavailable". To resolve that issue you just need to modify the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) so that your domain will be resolved on you virtual machine. In my case I just had to add the line

100.114.200.40 mycontoso.com

to the hosts file and the configuration of SharePoint Server 2016 finished successfully.

Ten Immutable Laws Of Security

ms-okoestner — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:54:00 GMT

Good to know: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh278941.aspx#EBAA

Microsoft datacenter peerings

ms-okoestner — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:19:00 GMT

If you want to know to which networks the Microsoft datacenter networks are connected, check out the following:

https://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=8075

Find the Microsoft peering policy at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Peering/default.aspx.

Windows N editions

ms-okoestner — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:07:14 GMT

Always wanted to know what Windows N editions are? Me too ;)

Windows N editions allow you to choose your own media player and software required to manage and play CDs, DVDs, and other digital media files.

Further details, see: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/n-editions.

OneNote tags summary

ms-okoestner — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:06:02 GMT

If you are using OneNote throughout your meetings you will often assign tags to your notes. Typically this might look like this:

In this case I assigned the task tag to the second note.

For demo purposes I created different pages with tagged notes:

Finding all tagged notes throughout your notebook will become more and more complex with growing amount of content. But you can use OneNote to help you on that.

Simply click on the “Find Tags” button in the “Home”-ribbon:

OneNote will now open a sidebar that will show you all your tagged notes. For the above example this sidebar will look like that:

With the button “Create Summary Page” on the “Tags Summary” sidebar you can create a new page within your notebook of the tagged notes:

If you keep your mouse over one of the items in the summary a OneNote-icon will be shown in front of that note:

Hovering the mouse pointer over that icon will show you where this tagged noted comes from:

Of course there is more functionality included in that tags summary. Check all the other commands to see how OneNote can increase your productivity.

Multilingual termstore usage

ms-okoestner — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:06:00 GMT

I did some testing during customer engagement with having a multilingual SharePoint 2010 termstore. What I wanted to know is when translateds labels are being used. Here is the answer:

Within the termstore I configured the folowing term:

Within the site settings / language settings of the site I have added the language "German" and then I am able to switch the site to German language via the user's menu:

After switching the language to "German" the terms will now be shown in German language:

If there is no label for the selected language available the default label will be used. Within the next screenshot this is the case for the term "Four" since I did not apply a German label for that term in the termstore:

Furthermore the autocomplete functionality when applying terms will also take care of the configured language:

And also for missing lanugage specific labels:

Will check soon it will work the same way in SP2013 and update this article.

SharePoint automatisiert installieren

ms-okoestner — Mon, 13 May 2013 03:17:17 GMT

Die Installation einer SharePoint-Farm kann prinzipiell völlig herkömmlich über das Ausführen der Setup.exe und manuellen Konfiguration über die Zentraladministration erfolgen. Dieses Vorgehen ist allerdings fehleranfällig und insbesondere für einen sicheren Betrieb der Umgebung nicht empfehlenswert.

Es gibt verschiedene Technologien, um eine SharePoint-Farm auf Basis von PowerShell-Skripten automatisiert zu installieren. Die für diesen Zweck bekanntesten Skript-Sammlungen habe ich im Folgenden einmal aufgeführt.

· AutoSPInstaller (https://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/)
- o GUI Frontend für die Erstellung der Konfigurationsdatei: https://autospinstallergui.codeplex.com/
- o SharePoint 2010 und SharePoint 2013
· TedPattison Group (https://blog.tedpattison.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=24)
- o SharePoint 2013

Zwar nicht zu dem Thema passend, aber dennoch eine sehr gute Übersicht, wie idealerweise eine SharePoint-Entwicklungsumgebung aussieht:

· Installing a 2013 Dev Environment (https://sharepointdragons.com/2013/05/06/installing-a-sharepoint-2013-dev-environment-from-a-to-z/)
- o SharePoint 2013

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