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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

  One interesting topic was suggested a couple of days ago by a colleague of mine. As  SharePoint Developer , one needs to have all the things near.That means , on the development  workstation, we need the tools, the assemblies, the server...

Ran into this a couple of days ago and I thought I'd share the knowledge , just in case you are seeing this behavior: According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262061(office.12).aspx , the value that can be set for this value is between...

If you ever run into the following behavior : Create the Mysite under a managed path , say http://myserver:90/sites/Mysites Define the above address as a mysitehost. When uploading the pictures , the thumbnail is displayed as an red X Going...

  So , you are in need of a warm-up , and do not want to invest in writing and deploying a timer job as per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686(office.12).aspx , or simply you want to keep things to a minimum … Hmmm. Here’s a PowerShell...

Talking about odd behaviors or things that one can configure and have unexpected results in SharePoint, here’s one: You search for People Names. All looks fine, the names are returned, all looks ok, BUT when you click on the URL that should take you to...

Found yourself in the position of wanting to find out what is going on on the server when you are crawling ? How about cranking up the logging level ? Nice but if you do it for all , you will rapidly get big log files that will not be so easy to analyze...

Here's a troubleshooting tip for you all having problems figuring out the hidden meaning of the message : "Error in the sitedata webservice" Say you are crawling a site and you receive the above error .What can you do to investigate what does that...

Ran into a funny behavior these days, checking the timer job status on a Sharepoint server ( totally new, new box, new OS , new Sharepoint) I fount the page blank. I have never encountered this before so I was puzzled, stunned, blocked and intrigued...

Came across this a couple of times and, unfortunately there is no easy way out of it. Here is the behavior description: Crawling your site, full or incremental will not finish, even after a long time. If you try to access the SQL server’s tempdb...

One issue you might have encountered after experiencing some Search problems.Although everything looks ok, the crawl schedules are not respected and the crawler fails to index the content at the specified times. No errors are logged and if you start...

I ran into this while attempting to import the profiles and playing with my managed properties in the SSP. Here’s what I did and noticed: Having defined my  BDC as a People Details Repository  the initial purpose of the test was to completely...

Noticed something weird the other days: I was fiddling around managed properties in my search settings and thought of deleting some of them to remove them from being indexed and from the search results. Among other managed properties deleted, I also deleted...

If you, like me had the chance of re-installing SharePoint (with all the language packs that you might have used before), it is likely that you have encountered this message. You will most likely see this message when running the configuration wizard...

A number of issues with crawling content in SharePoint was observed since installing .NET 3.5 SP1.  The behavior, usually is the inability to crawl the content and various permission-related messages in your crawl log. Among these the most frequent...

Among many features and improvements to the search engine, things brought by the Infrastructure Update, perhaps the most awaited one, search federation, was finally deployed. With search federation the search results are no longer restricted to the site...