SharePoint March 2013 Updates
SharePoint 2013 Note: This update is required in order to install future SharePoint updates. SharePoint Foundation: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36987 SharePoint Server:...
View ArticleFarm Solution Deployment Problems –“Could not load file or assembly…”
When building my most recent project, I had no issues deploying my solution from Visual Studio directly to the farm, however once the solution was packaged and deployed via PowerShell, I started...
View ArticleSelective Authentication can Kill the People Picker in a Two-Way Trust
One thing to watch out for in a two-way trust scenario with the People Picker. Typically with the People Picker in a two-way forest trust, you do not have to make any changes to SharePoint to resolve...
View ArticleSharePoint Cannot Send Mail to Itself
When using the built-in mechanism to send email from SharePoint (or SPUtility.SendEmail), SharePoint stamps a X-Mailer header of: [crayon-5156a4f7df32f-i/] If SharePoint is configured to send to the...
View ArticleSharePoint Health Analyzer Rules Cannot be Automatically Activated During F5...
When attempting to develop a SharePoint Health Analyzer rule and using F5 deployment, an error message will occur during the deployment process: [crayon-5156a4f7dc8a6/] This is because Visual Studio...
View ArticleExporting the SharePoint Root Authority Certificate from PowerShell
If you need to export the SharePoint Root Authority Certificate from PowerShell, here is the process you’ll want to follow: [crayon-516aaffa952b2/]
View ArticleIncoming Email Service Job Lock Type Change between SharePoint 2010 and 2013
In SharePoint 2010, the Incoming Email service timer job had an SPJobLockType of None, which means that the job ran on all servers in the farm, given the Incoming Email service was provisioned. In...
View ArticleSharePoint Foundation 2013, the LdapMembershipProvider and LdapRoleProvider...
SharePoint Foundation 2013 ships with the dll that provides the Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider and Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapRoleProvider classes. Yay! Right?...
View ArticleThe Fill Factor Mystery
The Microsoft recommendation for SharePoint database fill factor has changed over the years. In SharePoint 2007, the recommendation was 70. However, a new stored procedure was introduced in the...
View ArticleNauplius.ADLDS.Provider.2013 1.0 Released
This is a straight port of the previous AD LDS provider for SharePoint Foundation 2010. This provider allows SharePoint Foundation administrators to connect to an LDAP-based directory service. Please...
View ArticleApril 2013 Cumulative Update and MS13-035 BlobCache Errors
In SharePoint 2010, the April 2013 Cumulative Update and MS13-035 cause blobcache errors that look similar to this in the ULS log: [crayon-517da63eb8adb/] Others have identified that the SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Updates
SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2751999 SharePoint Server 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2726992 Project Server 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2737990 Office Web...
View ArticleSlipstreaming the SharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update
Okay, that was a misleading title. As we know, with the SharePoint 2010 post-June 2012 Cumulative Updates, you can no longer slipstream them into the base media due to the post-June 2012 Cumulative...
View ArticleSlow SharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update Extraction
When running /extract against the April 2013 Cumulative Update, it takes… hours. Using Process Monitor, it appears that the CU is going through the entire CU exe to identify and extract the files, in...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update Fails
When running the Config Wizard for the SharePoint 2013 upgrade with My Sites deployed, you may run across an error similar to this which causes the upgrade to fail: [crayon-51860027a14a0/] This is due...
View ArticleNauplius.WAS 1.01 Release – Update for SharePoint 2010 and support for...
Just a quick note that I’ve released Nauplius.WAS 1.01 which has a few fixes for SharePoint 2010 and adds full support for SharePoint 2013. Project Site Download Page Discussions Issue Tracker
View ArticleNauplius.WAS 1.5 Released for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
This new version includes a SharePoint Designer Custom Activity! Now you can automatically convert documents by dropping them into a specific Document Library, or integrate them as part of an overall...
View ArticleUsing Application Request Routing as a Reverse Proxy for SharePoint
With the questionable life span of the Microsoft Forefront brand, the Application Request Routing module for IIS7+ serves as a replacement reverse caching proxy. In conjunction with the Web Farm...
View ArticleSharePoint’s Support for URL Rewrite
Recently I was ask about URL Rewrite support for SharePoint, given the article I previously posted about the Application Request Routing module, which leverages URL Rewrite. Microsoft has released a...
View ArticleSharePoint DocKit 3.2.1 Review
Full disclosure: As part of the MVP Program, Acceleratio has offered MVPs a Consultant Premium license. This license offers the full features on an unlimited number of farms. However, I’ve been using...
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