Introduction In this post I will describe a common mistake that occurs when you write your own FQL that impacts the search results that depends on Relevancy Ranking (Using Full Text Index Mapping). Scenario Lets consider that we have a list of products that we would like to search through...

Introduction As I was working with one of the projects I had a customized InfoPath Form that has 100's of fields and multiple Views. As I was going though I had a concern that a lot of these fields were not used, so how to find which fields are used and which aren't. In this post I will give you some...

The Problem One feature of SharePoint is to create a calendar and make it a group calendar. This allows the user to see the schedule of list of people at the same time on the same view as per the image below. To configure the Calendar as a group Calendar you need to edit the List settings and then click...

This is a step by step guide on how to install Office Web Apps 2013 multi servers farm (using windows NLB and http) and how to configure it with SharePoint 2013. In my next post I will talk about how to configure Office Web Apps 2013 using NLB and https in multi servers deployment. Important : this post...

Introduction In this post I will try to show you how to implement a simple paging mechanism using InfoPath 2010. This approach is useful if you are considering a quick & fast solution to handle InfoPath Repeating Tables (or sections) that returns 100s of items without writing code behind and by...

SharePoint and office development model is changing to a new App model. This is the new development model for SharePoint. In this blog series I will walk you through creating a provider hosted SharePoint App that is hosted in an App part. This will show the following key features: ·         ...

You can do Everything with PowerShell - yes everything - and SharePoint is no exception. In this post for beginners, I will show you how to create tasks for the Task Scheduler to automate your SharePoint backups with PowerShell. First, to backup your farm, you can use the PowerShell command Backup...

  Problem When you run SharePoint PowerShell on your SharePoint server you get the following error: Error: "The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered". Solution Make sure the logged in user who is trying to run SharePoint PowerShell commands...

  The User Profile Synchronization service is the core of the synchronization architecture in SharePoint Server 2013. When you start the User Profile Synchronization service on the synchronization server, SharePoint Server 2013 provisions a version of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) to...

  In order to plan the Incremental and Full Crawl scenarios and schedule , I’m adding the below information in this regard:                                                                 ...

This article applies in a situation when you don’t have internet access in your SharePoint server , I have placed all the direct download links for the installers you might need. This article assumes you are having a new fresh installation of windows server 2008 R2 SP1 If you tried to run...

  Architecture In this port , I’m going to talk about the FAST Search components and how they are interacting with each other , I recommend to read this article before start deploying FAST search as it should give a good guidance and understanding for your deployment plan:    FAST Content...

In this post I will go through upgrading SharePoint sites from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010 , I will include directions to use the most relevant upgrade approach, as start Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010 is really challenging as there is no direct path...

In this post I’m planning to walkthrough the practice of changing the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database names as you might need it in the following scenarios: Replacing the Search Service Application Databases Names that Includes GUID’s to a friendlier name. The Database Admin...

As I was working on customizing a SharePoint Calendar, someone asked me if it’s possible to add a Publishing Image Field to a SharePoint Calendar called “Event Image” to display the current event picture. I decided to write this post to explore the options that I have in this case....

What is Divisional Portal? A divisional portal is a SharePoint Server 2010 deployment where teams mainly do collaborative activities and some content publishing; for example it can be used for hosting an Intranet Portal with multiple Departments. In general we usual face the choice between using sites...

I’m currently working on an engagement where the customer is looking for upgrading his current SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search to Fast Search for SharePoint 2010, but I was wondering if there are any issues that need to be considered during this process. In this post I will highlight some of...

Introduction SharePoint 2010 is a powerful platform that provides many useful features that help us in our day to day activities. As I was working in one of the projects I came along a challenge of implementing out of the box workflows, so I considered to explore the option of using one of the new...

Microsoft has many products built using Asp.Net platform (including SharePoint), and this means that we will have a lot of flexibility in implementing a new UI design. But what will happen if we consider hiring a Specialized Designers to implement all these flashy effects and try to fit them to our product...

Do not enable auto-create statistics on a SQL Server that is supporting SharePoint Server To ensure optimal performance, it is recommend that you set max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) to 1 To improve ease of maintenance, configure SQL Server connection aliases for each database server in your...

Problem Statement You have a requirement to display two list view web parts of two SharePoint lists. These two lists are linked together using a multi-valued lookup field in one of them. So for example you have a list called Companies and another called Branches and in the list of Companies you have...

I was trying to create a bing map silverlight application to be hosted on a custom SharePoint form page. This form is displaying the properties of a specific content type and within this content type I have two fields one for Latitude and one for Longitude. The requirement is actually to app to this...

Recently I ran into a strange issue with out-of-the-box SharePoint workflow. Once the workflow is started, the SharePoint automatically cancels the workflow and the workflow outcomes becomes as "access denied", the description you see is "The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or...

  In the previous post we have covered the document based forms; now we will use InfoPath to create the second type of list based forms to customize SharePoint 2010 List forms; this post is related to the main post of InfoPath Forms Options in SharePoint 2010 : What we will do in this post is to...

Technorati Tags: Sharepoint.Infopath , 2010 , List based , document based , step by step Data capture Forms in SharePoint 2010 lists can be created and customized using InfoPath forms in two ways; List based Forms and Document based forms, we will cover those two types of InfoPath forms in this post...