Showing posts with label SharePoint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint. Show all posts

Monday, March 2, 2015

Long time no see!!

Hi all,

It seems ages since I posted something here. Well today I saw a very interessting session from SPC2014 about SharePoint Online, best SharePoint in the world! ;-)

Secure, Reliable and Evergreen Service at Massive Scale: Lessons learned from Running SharePoint Online


Talks about some internal stuff like for example MinRole topology on SPO, the presentor calls it the secret session!! Really cool stuff, hope you enjoy!



Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Cloud & Sharepoint

Wow,

Realized recently that you can run Sharepoint on AWS (Amazon Web Services), Amazon Cloud Services, and also in your own and free cloud solution, OpenStack.

This can be very interesting news for someone looking for cutting back on costs... And OpenStack should grow for a finner product, since ebay and paypal have decided to move from VMware to OpenStack!!

If this is news to you, just check out amazon page, or this post about a SharePoint Eng. talking on how to setup a Windows Server on OpenStack. If you already knew about this please tell me what you think about it and if you have tried any of these services.


Friday, February 8, 2013

I'm still alive!


It's been a while since my last post, I just looked and it's from September 2011, wow, that's along time...

Hopefully that's going to change, let's see ;-)

For now, I just want to highlight this great service from the guys at CloudShare, I just found out that they are offering a trial of a full Sharepoint 2013 environment, with 3 machines, AD+SQL+MOSS2013. And also 2010 if you want a quick access to a 2010 server.

The remote access is done via java applet, it's a bit slow and weird but it does the job, and if you don't have access to a 2013 RTM ISO, this is a nice way to get to know the platform.

I found about CloudShare, by the great SP guru Andrew Connell, and Critical Path Training. The post is from March 2012 so this isn't fresh news, but the 2013 part should be 'kinda' fresh :)

I haven't seen this type of service, at least for free (even for this small amount of time, 14 days for 2010 and 2 days for 2013) anywhere, and if there are more around, please do share!

If you do not care for the 2010 trial, just go to CloudShare site and create a trial account and fire up Sharepoint 2013, have fun!



Thursday, September 8, 2011

WSS User Info data not in sync with MOSS User Profile

If your WSS User Info data not in sync with MOSS User Profile and you have two or more frontends, please read on...

After trying everything on the books (http://blogs.technet.com/b/nishants/archive/2010/08/23/troubleshooting-user-profile-sync-issues-in-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx) I wasnt able to solve it, including with the stsadm commands:


stsadm -o sync -ignoreisactive 1
stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 0
stsadm -o sync


Then, after browsing the ULS I found the following error:



User Profile Import: Error while querying for whether the import is in progress: 
    System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: 
        An unexpected error occurred on a send. ---> System.IO.IOException: Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream.


After that it was a question of replacing the SSL Certificates for the Office Server Web Services web site using selfssl from IIS 6.0 Resouces kit and the problem was solved.

Hope you find this information usefull.





    Tuesday, April 20, 2010

    Files missing in SharePoint? Even from RecycleBin and (god forbids) AllUserData?

    If files are disappearing from your SharePoint Document Library and you are (probably) using some custom code on SharePoint Doc Libs then check if you have any SPFile.Delete() call because if so, that row will disappear from SharePoint for ever...Unless you have you Backup/Restore working on.

    Developers should be aware that there is another method, .Recycle() that will send the file to the RecycleBin, and this is safer in most cases. Of couse if RecycleBin is disabled this method doesn't add any value i guess...

    There are other cases that will delete the file for ever like sp workflow deletions but im not aware of more...probably those that internally use Delete().

    There are some nice posts with more info on this @ sharemypoint, and its also good to read the SPFile documentation ;)

    Tuesday, January 12, 2010

    A new challenge(company) for 2010!

    Thats right, I'm starting 2010 at a new company, ANCP. I have great memories from my former company, DevScope, and i will always remeber it has a great place to work, always at the tip of the edge adopting new technologies, young and smart people working on new stuff that most people on the country haven't heard about, even those working on IT.

    I just want to say thanks to everyone at DevScope, specially Luis Martins for the opportunity and Marco Silva with who i have been working more regularly in the past year ;)

    Now I will be focusing on SharePoint, and start to learn a BPM tool for SharePoint, but because i have moved to a non-IT company i will be giving support to other stuff as well. It's a different point of view that, I hope, will give me a different perspective to my work and insight to the business. Also because it's a government agency i might not be exposing everything i will be doing, still, expect some more SharePoint stuff, and more. Wish me luck @ ANCP.

    Wednesday, November 11, 2009

    Annoying error Saving Page Content, and Compatibility View


    There are some annoying things while we work, Saving Page Content is one of them:



    Its easy to get rid of: Advanced Settings, disable "Enable native XMLHTTP support".


    Another thing i didnt understand was i didnt had compability view enabled in IE8 and i didnt understand why, here are the reasons:

    Sometimes the Compatibility View button isn’t displayed. The button is located on the address bar next to the ‘stop’ and ‘refresh’ buttons. There are a few cases where there’s no action for a user take and, thus, the Compatibility View button will not show:
    • If you're viewing an internal-to-Internet Explorer page (such as about:InPrivate)
    • If you're viewing a page that has declared it's "ready" for Internet Explorer 8 through use of the versioning tag / HTTP header (it doesn’t matter if this tag triggers Quirks, IE7 Standards, or IE8 Standards, the button won’t be displayed)
    • If you're viewing an intranet page and you have the ‘Display intranet sites in Compatibility View’ checkbox selected
    • If you're viewing any webpage and you have the ‘Display all websites in Compatibility View’ checkbox selected
    • If you're viewing a webpage that is included on the Microsoft-supplied compatibility view updates list and you have the ‘Include updated website lists from Microsoft’ checkbox selected
    • If you've toggled either the ‘Document Mode’ or ‘Browser Mode’ settings via the Developer Toolbar

    Friday, September 18, 2009

    Another tool for BDC

    Just found out about a new tool from Simego for BDC Application Definition Files, MOSS BDC Design Studio($200) is cheaper than Metaman($1200) and it seems that it does some things Metaman doesnt.

    More reviews here and here.

    PS: I'm on a small project working with BI, SSAS and SRS with SharePoint, mostly setting up the envorinment and found out the value of SQL Profiler ;)
    Oh and its nice to work with Reports inside Sharepoint, real fun.

    Also designing some simpler than Visual Studio Workflows on SPD, a bit weird at first but after you get it its pretty straight forward.



    Thursday, September 17, 2009

    Friday, July 24, 2009

    FBA Management in SP

    If you have FBA in your Farm, with data on SQL it can be a pain to manage the users, and the client will want a nice way to manage them.

    Well, this guy did it :)


    Thursday, July 23, 2009

    FBA in SharePoint

    Just for my own internal record: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx

    Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 1): Introduction
    Summary: Explore several new features for authentication and authorization in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that make it easier to develop and deploy solutions in Internet-facing and extranet environments. This article is part 1 of 3. (26 printed pages)

    Steve Peschka, Microsoft Corporation
    Published: December 2007
    Updated: June 2009
    Applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

    Wednesday, July 22, 2009

    Cant upload big files in 2008

    If you have changed the file size limit in CA, and then it doesnt work, check if you have win2008 since there's an knowed issue.

    Found solution here. KB here.

    Good resource on large files and Sharepoint: Paul Gavin.

    Sharepoint Training

    Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training download.

    Maybe the best training road map for sharepoint:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/neilth/pages/office-sharepoint-server-2007-training-material-roadmap.aspx

    But 2010 is coming :)

    Backup and restore, content types disappear

    If you try to backup a site collection and restore it, everything looks fine but when you try for example to create a page you might receive a nice 'content type not found' error.

    Not even the default content types are 'restored'. A google search pointed me to this site.

    Marvelous, just run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard and you should be back in business. Real simple solution.

    Monday, June 22, 2009

    My First Microsoft Certification

    I passed today in MS exam 70.541. Of course im quite happy but it was a little bit easy, i have maybe 1,5years experience with MOSS mostly and with most of the question out there in the internet it was a 'walk in the park'.

    One question intrigued me..i was sure it was wrong but Internet questions keep saying it was right...grrrr...but i didnt want to test my persistance so i checked the 'wrong' right one on the exam :D

    So, maybe a next exam who knows... At least i can read other stuff...maybe BI

    Friday, April 24, 2009

    SPUtility

    The other day i discovered SPUtility, while browsing i found out some nice methods, check them out :-)


    ·         SPUtility.SendEmail(web, false, false, "someone@somewhere.com", subject, body);

     

    ·         string featurePath =SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath("template\\features");

     

        // returns C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES

           

     

    Redirect to the SharePoint Error Page.
                This is a nice way of handling errors cleanly and consistently.

        try 
       
     
            
    // some code that might fail 
        } 
       
     catch (SPException ex) 
        { 
            
    SPUtility.TransferToErrorPage("An error occurred.\n" + ex.Message); 
        }

     

     

            4. Redirect to any page.
                I find this really handy as you can provide flags that let you redirect relative to the layouts directory (if you have some custom layout pages)

        // send user to login page 
        SPUtility.Redirect("login.aspx", SPRedirectFlags.RelativeToLayoutsPage,HttpContext.Current);

     

    Original: http://www.trinkit.co.nz/blog/archive/2007/04/30/programming-in-wss-use-sputility.aspx

    Saturday, February 21, 2009

    Great CAML IntelliSense

    This is intellisense using the default XSD right?

    Well John Holliday did some extension that enhances the CAML.NET IntelliSense Experience, download it here. It has some nice time saving potencial right?




    Sunday, February 15, 2009

    Visual Studio 2010 & SharePoint

    For all of you that are developing in SharePoint, check it out the new Visual Studio 2010 and the goodies it has for SharePoint. Visual WebParts? Server Explorer (SPManager?;-) Feature Manager, pretty cool stuff

    Check the video here.

    Tuesday, February 10, 2009

    SharePoint gets bigger

    It seems Microsoft is adding more stuff into SharePoin, and great stuff by the way!!

    New goodies comming into SharePoint:
    • Performance Point – “An integrated performance management application that allows business decision makers to be in control. Microsoft Performance Management allows customers to monitor, analyze, and plan their business as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization.”
    • ESP for SharePoint – “FAST ESP delivers to users the relevant, accurate and timely answers and insights they need to make smart, fast decisions. Online businesses win by helping their customers and visitors find relevant content, products, services and communities, building loyalty and driving revenue in the process. Corporations and government organizations win by helping knowledge workers more quickly discover authorized information and analyze results, improving productivity and uncovering business intelligence.”
    Check it all out @ Michael Gannotti