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SharePoint 2013 - PSCONFIG is mandatory after installing July 2015 CU for SharePoint Server 2013.
With July 2015 CU for SharePoint Server 2013, we have an important update w.r.t. the database...
Author: Spses Date: 07/15/2015
SharePoint 2013: Crawl database grows because of crawl logs and cause crawl performance.
The crawl log contains information about the status of what was crawled. This log allows to...
Author: Spses Date: 07/09/2015
SharePoint Check Permissions on site permissions page works intermittently with SAML claims Auth..
Came Across an interesting situation , where when we use "Check Permissions" to...
Author: Spses Date: 07/04/2015
SharePoint 2013 : Site Usage Analytics Report shows no values when crawling a non-default Zone URL for the Web-application
Usage analytics is a set of analyses that receive information about user actions, or usage...
Author: Spses Date: 06/29/2015
SharePoint 2013: Office documents Search crawl message indicating "This item was partially parsed."
Symptom Consider the following scenario: You start a Search Service Application crawl in the...
Author: Spses Date: 06/22/2015
SharePoint 2013: SharePoint Designer Workflow in Suspended or Canceled State
Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You publish a SharePoint 2013 Designer Workflow...
Author: Spses Date: 06/18/2015
ERR_config_Db while starting the UPA Synchronization service in SharePoint 2010/2013
Post configuring the User profile Service Application , You need to Start the Synchronization...
Author: Spses Date: 06/16/2015
The all new Cloud Search service application coming to SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016
The all new Cloud Search service application coming to SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 We...
Author: Spses Date: 05/20/2015
SharePoint 2010 /2013: “An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown” while installing an update
You try to install cumulative updates for SharePoint 2010 and 2013, and you encounter this error: An...
Author: Spses Date: 05/12/2015
SharePoint 2013 : Cookie dropped from Distributed Cache with Event ID: air4a
You experience logon failures with SharePoint 2013 such as “access denied” errors or redirection to...
Author: Spses Date: 05/12/2015
Infopath & Postback settings in SharePoint
Some InfoPath form controls, actions, and features require the browser to communicate with...
Author: Spses Date: 04/06/2015
Configuring Microsoft Web Application Proxy Server (WAP) for Inbound Hybrid Topology with Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 -Part7
This post is a companion to the earlier published part 2 of this hybrid configuration and deployment...
Author: Spses Date: 03/19/2015
Configuring Search Verticals (Video , Conversations, People ) for Hybrid Search Experiences In SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online-Part6
When a user browses to an Enterprise Search center they see four out of box search verticals. A...
Author: Spses Date: 03/19/2015
SharePoint 2013 /2016: Active Directory Import and known behaviors
I had a chance to work with a customer for an Active Directory import problem where it was found...
Author: Spses Date: 03/04/2015
Requirements for sending email to SharePoint libraries_including X-Headers
There have been some questions around E-Mail requirements for sending email to a SharePoint list or...
Author: Spses Date: 03/04/2015
Partial Results feature for Search farms in SP2013
With index capacity now increasing up to 250 million index items spanning 64 components in a search...
Author: Spses Date: 12/05/2014
The SharePoint 2013 search results return errors when you are querying federated locations with SEP CU 2014 OR higher applied
Use Case Description: In Sp2013 Federated search can be defined as using search indexes...
Author: Spses Date: 10/24/2014
You can't specify the FROM address for email messages when you use the "Send an email" option from a SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow action
PROBLEM When you create a SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow and you use the Send an email...
Author: Spses Date: 10/24/2014
Controlling active content in SharePoint 2013
High-privileged users can embed active content in SharePoint sites. This article describes...
Author: Spses Date: 10/22/2014
SHA-1 Decommissioning
The SHA-1 hashing algorithm for the Microsoft Root Certificate Program is being...
Author: Spses Date: 10/21/2014
Configure OneDrive for Business as a Hybrid search vertical in SharePoint Onpremise search center : Part5
Part 4 of my post has steps to redirect On-Premises users to host their mysites in Office365...
Author: Spses Date: 07/05/2014
SharePoint 2013- Configure On-Premises Users to leverage Office 365 for their Mysite-OneDrive :Part-4
OneDrive for Business Redirection to Office365-SharePoint Online Part1 and Part2 of this post talks...
Author: Spses Date: 07/05/2014
SharePoint 2010 & Yammer Step by Step guide
There are many great articles that talks about how to integrate yammer with SharePoint 2010. I am...
Author: Spses Date: 07/05/2014
SharePoint 2013 : The search results with %5C (the “” character) will become double encoded and causes broken links
Use Case Description: The search results with %5C (the “\” character) will become double encoded...
Author: Spses Date: 06/30/2014
Importance of Primary Host Controller in SharePoint Search 2013
The SearchHostController is related to the SearchServiceInstance. SearchHostController manages the...
Author: Spses Date: 04/20/2014
SharePoint 2013 : ADImport is not cleaning up User Profiles in SharePoint whose AD Accounts are disabled .
We recently came across cases where Profiles of Disabled users in AD are not getting deleted from...
Author: Spses Date: 04/13/2014
SharePoint 2013 - User identity pass-through delegation does not work with BCS and claims-mode authentication
In SharePoint 2010/2013 , user identity pass-through delegation will not work when a BCS External...
Author: Spses Date: 04/01/2014
Changes in Ribbon UI for SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013, selecting a document in a document library does not show the ribbon commands...
Author: Spses Date: 03/25/2014
How to use ADFS with SharePoint hosted apps in Sharepoint 2013
This blog will provide some handy information for Setting up Hosted Apps in SHAREPOINT 2013 with...
Author: Spses Date: 01/16/2014
Identity Federation & Single Sign on Deployment for Hybrid Search in Office 365 –SharePoint Online –Part3
Part1 and Part2 of this post talks about how we can configure two-way Hybrid search with Directory...
Author: Spses Date: 01/07/2014
Office 365-Configure Inbound Hybrid Search with Directory Synchronization –Password Sync –Part2
We have set up outbound search in Part 1 of this post .Now let’s take a look at how to configure...
Author: Spses Date: 01/05/2014
Setting up Perfwizard to Troubleshoot Performance Issues in SharePoint Server
What is PerfWizard? PerfWizard is a diagnostic tool that helps customers and engineers...
Author: Spses Date: 01/01/2014
SharePoint 2010/2013: List view Lookup threshold uncovered
SharePoint with Large lists is common scenario in any Sharepoint deployment. While there are...
Author: Spses Date: 12/02/2013
Scenarios where User Profile Synchronization Service (UPSS) is not designed to work
This blog covers some unique scenarios where UPSS is not designed to work & also...
Author: Spses Date: 11/11/2013
Show more relevant Titles in search results in SharePoint 2013 plus some other improvements
We’ve introduced improvements to search in SharePoint 2013 so that it will be easier to display...
Author: Spses Date: 10/30/2013
SharePoint 2010 Using blob caching throws many errors in the ULS and Event Logs -The system cannot find the file specified
Are you seeing several errors related to Blob Caching in the ULS Logs / Event Viewer? Various...
Author: Spses Date: 10/22/2013
Office 365-Configure Hybrid Search with Directory Synchronization –Password Sync
WATCH the Video Here One of the key features in SharePoint 2013 release is to provide our customers...
Author: Spses Date: 10/22/2013
UPA Sync Service Startup issues due to invalid Name of the server
Recently I had worked on couple of an issues where User Profile Synchronization service wasn’t...
Author: Spses Date: 05/20/2013
SharePoint 2013: Site in Read only mode after an interrupted backup
I came across an interesting issue recently where a customer was backing up a site collection via...
Author: Spses Date: 05/16/2013
How to reduce the size of logging database by purging old data from it.
WSS logging database grows very fast and it may cause storage problem at times SharePoint...
Author: Spses Date: 05/06/2013
SharePoint 2010/2013: “Change Log “Timer Job is not cleaning up Expired entries in EventCache Table
In SharePoint every content database contains an EventCache table that is the “change log” for...
Author: Spses Date: 05/02/2013
SharePoint 2010: Search Service application - Old databases not removed when we try to rename the Property database or Crawl database using central admin site for the Search Service application that was provisioned via PowerShell - Part 2
In my last blog , Part 1 I discussed the scenario where we had provisioned a Search Service...
Author: Spses Date: 04/23/2013
SharePoint 2010: Search Service application - Old databases are not removed when we try to rename the Property database or Crawl database using central admin site for the Search Service application that was provisioned via PowerShell - Part 1
I was recently working on a SharePoint issue. The issue was that we were unable to rename the...
Author: Spses Date: 04/18/2013
SharePoint 2010/2013: UPA Sync from Active Directory pulling accounts in Domain: username instead of Domainusername
Scenario You have a User profile Service application configured in SharePoint 2010 /2013...
Author: Spses Date: 04/17/2013
Proxy Configuration issues with UPA in SharePoint 2010 /2013
This post talks about various issues seen in User Profile Service application configuration due to...
Author: Spses Date: 12/17/2012
Guidance for XslLink property with the XsltListViewWebPart
The XsltListViewWebPart as well as the DataFormWebPart are having the same base class...
Author: Spses Date: 10/22/2012