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Optimize SharePoint Search Results using Auto Tagged Content

June 26, 2019 No Comments

Sometime ago, I wrote an article explaining how to use Azure Text Analytics Service to Automatically Tag Documents stored in SharePoint document libraries. The expected outcome would be that most of your SharePoint documents would be “Tagged” with keywords extracted from the content of the corresponding documents. But what next? How does it help? Let’s take a look at how can we benefit once we have most of the documents properly tagged. Target State Before we jump in to the benefits, let’s establish what we are trying to achieve here Create an additional field, say Content Area(s), in the document […]

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Use Azure Text Analytics Service to Automatically Tag SharePoint Documents

May 27, 2018 11 Comments

Automatic content classification or metadata tagging has been one of the “wishes” for knowledge workers across organizations. SharePoint has provided a solution for Managed Metadata and manual tagging for long and some third party solutions exist which claim to provide automatic keywords extraction from the content of the uploaded documents. In this article, we will explore how can we use Azure Text Analytics Service to Automatically Tag Documents stored in SharePoint from the keywords extracted from the content of those documents. So, let’s’ get started. Prerequisites Before we can jump in to extract keywords from SharePoint documents, we need to setup […]

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How to Use AD Security Groups with SharePoint using ADFS Authentication

February 18, 2018 No Comments

Few years ago, almost all companies were using their SharePoint environment authenticated directly with AD. Most of those were configured simply to use NTLM authentication. That provided easy SSO for domain joined machines and users accessing from within the company network. Following microsoft guidelines, many companies made use of Active Directory (AD) security groups to provide permissions to a large set of users. Problem Statement With Office 365 and other cloud services, many of those companies started making use of Federated Authentication like Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) to ensure all cloud services use the same credentials and provide SSO. We […]

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Unable to open excel files in Office Web Apps – Another way out

November 15, 2017 No Comments

We had a SharePoint 2016 medium size farm (2 WFEs, 2 App Servers, 2 DB Servers & 2 OWA Servers) configured and running perfectly fine for a few months. Until one fine day, while opening Excel files in browser started throwing the below error – We’re sorry. We ran into a problem completing your request. Please try that again in a few minutes. Strangely, all other office file types (Word, PowerPoint) continued to work in browser without any issues. Update: As per Microsoft, this is a known issue (“System Center 2016 Operations Manager APM Agent causing heap corruption in SharePoint”) […]

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SharePoint Crawl Error- Processing this item failed because of a timeout

July 3, 2017 1 Comment

A few days ago, suddenly in one of the SharePoint farms which my team maintains, after running fine for few months, it started logging the error message “SharePoint Crawl Error- Processing this item failed because of a timeout when parsing its contents” for almost all the content the crawler was trying to index. Background It was a medium size farm, with 2 front end servers, 2 application servers with 2 database servers configured with always on availability groups. The search crawl was schedule to with “Continuous Crawl” with “Incremental Crawl” every 4 hours. Initially we thought it might be a […]

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Playing with SharePoint Pages Dynamic Div IDs

May 1, 2017 No Comments

Hey Guys, I am sure there are many other ways, you might have achieved similar results, but dynamic div ids in SharePage pages give a hard time to many developers.Like most other people, developers love certainty, but SharePoint pages may generate 2 different div ids even for same page, when accessed by 2 different users, because of different permissions.I recently had a requirement to put a direct link to users’ my site document library in the my site host page. It’s a SharePoint 2016 environment, but they were not yet ready to go for OneDrive interface and decided to stick […]

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SharePoint Hosted Apps in AAM or host-header environments for SharePoint 2013 with ADFS

May 7, 2015 No Comments

Hey Guys, Many of you might have started working on or at least looking at Hybrid Implementation of SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, probably using some federated Authentication like ADFS 3.0.You might not have faced any issues when installing and running even basic apps from SharePoint store in Office 365 environment, it is not that easy, well at least not that well documented on how this exactly works for In-Premise sites. In some case, you might have got it working in your lab/dev environment easily, but what if you have a SharePoint site with Host Headers defined in IIS. As […]

SharePoint, SharePoint Online

Developing Hybrid Apps for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

February 23, 2015 No Comments

Hey guys, You could find a lot of articles over internet on how to setup a development environment for developing SharePoint Apps. Some of those articles (including technet) nicely explain how to setup the Apps environment for SharePoint.However, when I started exploring, I found many confusing and contradicting stuffs there, for example Configure your Domain Name section in the technet article Configure an environment for apps for SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) is correct for SharePoint hosted Apps (or if you want to use SharePoint store apps) and NOT for provider hosted apps !!! Anyway, I will skip these and assume that you have […]

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HTTP to HTTPS Redirection for SharePoint Sites hosted on Azure VMs

January 31, 2015 6 Comments

Lets take a look at a scenario which is getting more and more prominent with many organizations deciding to move their SharePoint environment out of their own data center to host of MS Azure VMs. This is more seen in smaller/medium size companies who completely want to do away with their data centers by moving most/all such services (like Exchange, Lync etc.) to cloud. This article is for VMs created using Classic Model in Azure, If your VMs are created using Azure Resource Manager (ARM), read this article instead Well, when running a medium sized SharePoint farm in-premise, mostly organizations […]

ADFS, SharePoint

ADFS 3.0 with SharePoint 2013 Redirection Loop – Another way out

November 24, 2014 No Comments

This good old topic with lots of different behaviors and solutions. In my case I had 3 different SharePoint 2013 web applications say site1.mycompany.com, site2.mycompany.com & site3.mycompany.com configured to use ADFS 3.0 Everything was working fine on all the browsers till the final day of our production rollout… and then the moment came… just a few hours before we had to go live, site2.mycompany.com & site3.mycompany.com started throwing errors when trying to login… It was same old & popular ADFS redirection loop issue… only on Internet Explorer… and only for these 2 sites… Site1 kept on working fine… Tried all […]