Microsoft Office Sharepoint

Task aggregation in SharePoint 2013. How does it work. Scenarios and supportability.

2013-05-06T12:21:29Z

One of the important features in SharePoint is the ability to have an overview of the tasks assigned to a person. With SharePoint 2013, the source of the aggregation has diversified including now Project Server Tasks, SharePoint Tasks and Exchange Tasks , all these aggregated in the special "My Tasks" view in each user's personal site. You will find the information in this document http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38799...(read more)

The user does not exist or is not unique

2013-04-02T16:00:00Z

I have seen this not only once so I thought it's worth a couple of lines to (potentially) save some trouble-shooting :) . among the properties that can be set to restrict peoplepicker behavior we have serviceaccountdirectorypaths http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263012(office.12).aspx and siteuseraccountdirectorypath http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263328(v=office.12).aspx . These properties go hand in hand and allow the abbility to restrict the peoplepicker to a specific...(read more)

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEndpointAddressNotFoundException: There are no addresses available for this application

2013-03-18T13:36:00Z

Ran into this message and I thought it would be nice to share the resolution. Consider the following callstack from ULS: Exception=Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEndpointAddressNotFoundException: There are no addresses available for this application. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoundRobinServiceLoadBalancer.BeginOperation() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceApplicationProxyBase`1.ExecuteOnChannel(..) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AppManagement. AppManagementServiceApplicationProxy .GetScaleOutDatabaseMap...(read more)

Media Player Web Part in SharePoint minimum size ( or, there is more than one way to skin the media player web part )

2012-10-24T05:01:35Z

Let’s say you want to use the Media Player web part to enhance your web site by playing an audio file. Of course, you do not want the component to take too much visual space , and if at all possible, you would like to only display the control buttons (Play/Pause, Stop, Mute) so that the visitors will have the ability of turning off the sound if they want to. However, when you resize the Web Part to , say 100x 50 you notice that the controls are not really responsive and you might need to click around...(read more)

Modified By Column does not get updated

2012-10-01T11:10:00Z

Have you ever seen the following behavior ? You create a new document library and start uploading content.Then the users start modifying the documents, however, the Modified by field does not update to reflect the Name of the user that modified the document. Instead, the Name of the user that created ( or otherwise the first user that modified the document ) is displayed. Why ? The Explanation resides in the Modified by Field Definition as it is defined at the list Level. An out of the...(read more)

Page not found 404 on Default.aspx

2012-08-28T05:50:00Z

Why do you receive a 404 when trying to visit Default.aspx on your SharePoint Site ( among other multiple reasons) ? Answer ( among other potential answers ) :) The site might reside at the root of a Wildcard inclusion managed path. EX: Webapplication http://SharePoint Managed Path at /ManPath/ The Default page at http://SharePoint/ManPath/Default.aspx When you try to access the site, you receive a 404 (Page not found) Why By design Solution Remove the managed...(read more)

SQL-Network Performance problems when orphan solutions are still present in the database

2012-08-24T11:21:50Z

Consider the following scenario: You have deployed a number of solutions on your Sharepoint Site. During the time, you deactivate the solutions, delete them, add new ones, and so on. For unknown reasons, some of the solutions still remain in the database but they do not get displayed in the user interface ( what we call orphans ) What you can notice is , from time to time , the SQL server is sluggish to respond to Sharepoint requests. Monitoring the network traffic you notice an increase...(read more)

404 error on a Sharepoint Site : COMException (0x80004005) : The operation cannot be completed successfully

2012-08-13T08:07:42Z

Here's one behavior that you might see. Since the error is not that enlightening and the logs do not tell you what happens, I thought it's usefull to document it. You have configured your farm and attempt to browse to the site you created. Instead of the page you receive a 404 error ( the webpage cannot be found ) and, if you configured the web.config to display the callstack and the error ( CustomErrors="Off") you might see an exception like below: COMException (0x80004005) : Cannot complete...(read more)

Document ID enabled but no document ID is generated

2012-07-24T13:59:17Z

Here is an interesting behavior that I came across in the last weeks. You attempt to enable the Document ID feature at site collection level. The enablement works fine but you do not receive any errors, however no document ID field is generated for the documents in the site collection (if you check for example the View Settings of a document Library). Not very obvious but here’s one explanation: During the enablement, we attempt to modify the default Document Content Type. If this content...(read more)

My Colleague Tag , or “there is no timer job…”

2012-06-13T09:53:25Z

The question that generated this post was: “What timer job needs to run in order for the Colleagues tag to become in effect and to be displayed as such in the search results page ?” While this might seem trivial to some, there is a valid point behind the question, now with the multitude of social elements that come in play in SharePoint. Why, sometimes after adding a colleague it is displayed as such within minutes and sometimes within hours? What data needs to be synchronized between the Profile...(read more)