SharePoint

SharePoint – Issue with “Sites I’m following” with SharePoint 2013 – AAM are not taken into account

I discovered an issue with SharePoint 2013 and AAM. Here is the scenario: Create a web application to host your My Site; define an internal URL (such as http://my) Don’t forget to create the root site collection (use My Site Host) and allow self site site collection creation Extend this web application to allow remote […]

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SharePoint – Use SharePoint Workspace with SharePoint 2013

As you may already know, with the 2013 version Microsoft has changed SharePoint Workspace to SkyDrive Pro. As there are lot of change (and not really good change in my point of view – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2012/08/08/office-is-skydrive-pro-a-good-evolution/) you may miss some features which are available with SharePoint Workspace but with SharePoint 2013 there is no direct

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SharePoint 2013 – Accessing the Site Collection Recycle Bin

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has changed the way to reach the Site Collection Recycle Bin. As reminder, the Site Collection Recycle Bin is the recycle bin used to restore deleted items by end users once the retention delay has been reach (default is 30 days – you can manage this settings from the Central Administration\Manage

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SharePoint–Search service process (noderunner) is consuming the resource

This issue has been already there with the beta build but it is still present on RTM. After installation and configuring SharePoint 2013, you may see a process called noderunner consuming lot of resources (CPU & Memory – especially memory). To solve this issue, just follow these 2 steps: Using SharePoint Management Shell, run the

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SharePoint – Upgrade to SharePoint 2013

After deploying the new SharePoint 2013, I have migrated all my content from SharePoint 2010 using the database upgrade process. To do so, I backed up the content database from my previous installation, running on SharePoint 2010, and then restore it to the new SQL server. Then, after creating all the web application, I attached

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SharePoint – SPAdmin service failed to start when creating a SharePoint 2010 farm

Recently, I ran into a problem with SharePoint 2010 Enterprise (with Service Pack 1 and June 2012 Cumulative Update) when creating a new SharePoint farm. The configuration wizard failed at step 3 when creating the configuration database; while the configuration database and the content DB for the central administration site have been created. When analyzing

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