While working on a project, an end user was asking me how to solve an error he had: he just created a survey with only one question but when he tried to open the survey he always had an error. We reproduced the issue: Create a new survey Then define a question and choose External …
SharePoint – A bug with Survey list if using External Data question type Read More »
Recently, I came across an issue with custom site definition which had to display on the default page the calendar webpart as a calendar view (like the one displayed in the default Team Site). To create this custom site definition, I reused some code available in the default Team Site site definition ; especially the …
As you may already know, with Office 365 you can configure your cloud services to use your own Active Directory for user authentication. This allow single sign on and password policy management independently of Office 365. However, until now, there was a limitation which obliged you to use multiple ADFS implementation in case of you …
For those who are already working with Office 365 and have enabled Directory Synchronization, there is a good news Starting today, it is now possible to disable/delete synchronized user accounts or delete previous synchronized object no longer existent On Premises. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2619062/en-us to know more about it
According to a Microsoft email, Office 365 will introduce new features within the end of this month (October 22nd) As part of these new features: BCS – WCF Connectors (for Enterprise Plans only): enables external system connection through web services endpoints External Sharing with Windows Live ID Official Windows Phone 7 Mango support: enables SharePoint …
As you may already know, Microsoft is working on the next version of SQL, codename SQL Denali – officially called SQL 2012. To start learning (and enjoying) SQL Denali, Microsoft is offering a free ebook (still in writing progress) http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=229829 Microsoft SQL Server Denali delivers significant enhancements to well-known, critical capabilities like high availability and …
SQL Denali – Free ebook “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali”” Read More »
Since the availability of Office 365 and SharePoint 2010 Online, this was a frequent request from customer to get usage statistics.
As you already know, you can exclude some additional file type from SharePoint crawling. Unfortunately, this can be done only one file type per one file type through the search service administration. If you have a lot of file type to exclude, this will take lot of time and is not really pleasant. So, PowerShell …
SharePoint – Import a complete list of file type exclusion Read More »
As SharePoint administrators, you already know that there is some logs generated while crawling your content to show you if everything is ok or if there any issue (content access, file type unknown or not supported…). Unfortunately, there is NO way to access these logs in a pleasant way to work on it (export). Recently, …
