Hey Guys, Most of us must have faced a situation in SharePoint world when we had to use Move-SPUser to update SharePoint with users who have moved from one active directory domain to another like if user’s identity has changed from CORPUserID to NewCorpUserID.SP-MoveUser works perfect for most of such scenarios. But there is a related area of content ownership transfer, regd. which not much of the information is available. I am trying to compare these 2, as Move-SPUser command can’t be used in SharePoint online and content ownership transfer can be used even in a scenario when the employee […]
SharePoint Hosted Apps in AAM or host-header environments for SharePoint 2013 with ADFS
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 […]
Developing Hybrid Apps for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
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 […]
HTTP to HTTPS Redirection for SharePoint Sites hosted on Azure VMs
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 3.0 with SharePoint 2013 Redirection Loop – Another way out
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 […]
Migrate SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application to SharePoint 2013 – The Fineprints
Hi Guys, In this post I would like to share about how to migrate an existing SharePoint 2010 Search Service application to SharePoint 2013 Search with specific Index location.The requirements for doing so could be – You are doing an as-is migration, in this case migrated sites in SP 2013 looks and behaves same as SP 2010. Some organizations go for this option to quickly move to SP 2013 and then update their’s sites UI to 2013 interface gradually, site by site You want to keep using already created search scopes/content sources/crawl schedules etc in SP 2010 Search Service Application […]
SharePoint Alerts Email Showing Wrong URL
I encountered an interesting issue in a new SharePoint 2010 farm that I built using content databases from an existing farm. The new farm was built because there had been an split of the company and half of the users moved to the new company. So, the scenario was that they would continue to use their same AD credentials but use the new SharePoint farm that had been created with relevant content databases of the old farm. So far so good… A user just forwarded an alert he received from the new farm, because he had subscribed for that alert […]
A Case Study – Visual Studio 2012 with SharePoint 2010
Introduction This Post highlights some of the business problems that was being faced earlier by our team while developing SharePoint based solutions and how various features of Visual Studio 2012 helped resolved those issues. Problem Statement What we have is a customized product based on SharePoint 2010 platform. Initially earlier versions of Visual Studios were used for the customization along with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Browser based changes. Due to these multiple issues used to come during development, testing and deployment. Creation of Data Structures Since normally any development around SharePoint requires some data structures (Lists/Libraries etc.) to be there. It used […]
How to get the most out of FAST Enterprise Search – Part 5 (Search from windows 7)
Hi All, As promised in my last post, I am going to highlight a new cool feature of FAST Enterprise Search, which will allow you to search the content from across the organization directly from your desktop, literally. You can perform enterprise searches from a Windows 7 client by using federation. When a user types a search query in the search box in Windows Explorer, the Windows 7 client can retrieve search results from Enterprise Search and display the results in the Windows Explorer window where you typed the query. The Windows 7 client is a system that can act […]
How to get the most out of FAST Enterprise Search – Part 4 (People Search)
In this post, I am going to highlight how to get the most out of “People Search”. People are company’s most important asset. Our Enterprise Search makes it easier for people to find each other and share expertise. It helps in finding colleagues faster with a people focused relevance model and metadata refinement. It uses a dedicated ranking system for people results, so that we can be sure that people specific factors, such as title, department, social distance, and keywords are balanced in the search results. Plus, you can use people-centric metadata including job title, organization and skills to further […]