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SharePoint 2013 – Anonymous comment with SharePoint blog issue

Recently, I was informed that there is an error when submitting comment on anonymous blog: you can an access denied error message. Off course, the blog has been configured to allow anonymous access AND permissions to the Comments list have been set to allow anonymous users to create an item in the list This happened […]

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SharePoint – Allow Office Mobile access to SharePoint sites published with ForeFront TMG

Even if Microsoft has announced to stop ForeFront TMG (Threat Management Gateway), this post is about to allow Office Mobile (from Windows Phone 7.x or Windows Phone 8) access to internal SharePoint sites published through ForeFront TMG. NOTE the recommendation (and due to the announcement) it’s recommended to use ForeFront UAG (Unified Access Gateway) to

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SharePoint 2013 – PDF preview and PDF opened using Web Browser

UPDATED April 16th, after the April CU, it seems opening PDF in web browser is working whatever a PDF reader is installed or not With SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Applications 2013, Microsoft is now supporting PDF with Office Web Applications. However, there is few things to do in order to be able to preview

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SharePoint – The first CU for SharePoint 2013 is mandatory

Few months after the RTM of SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has released the first CU for SharePoint 2013 – March 2013 PU (public update). This update is MANDATORY for being able to install later SharePoint updates. The update size is very big (650 Mo for SharePoint Foundation 2013, 1.6 Gb for SharePoint Server). I highly recommend

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Office 365 – Some changes/limitations with public website

With the new Office 365 running SharePoint Online 2013, Microsoft has made some changes: The first one, but not the more important, the default public URL has changed to http://<yourtenant>-public.sharepoint.com while with SharePoint Online 2010 it was http://<yourtenant>-web.sharepoint.com The second one is at the Site Settings level. You can only manage interface (look), search engine

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Office 365 – You can not create a site collection which reuse URL

To avoid data lost, Microsoft has introduced earlier in SharePoint Online the site collection recycle bin. This feature allows SharePoint Online administrators to restore deleted site collection. This site collection recycle bin has also another impact which is blocking you when creating a new site collection which reuse an URL previously associated to a deleted

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Office 365 – Use Right Management Services

With the new Office 365, Microsoft has introduced a new functionality to secure document sharing: Right Management Services. This service is (should be) well know as this is available since Windows Server 2003 as additional component for internal deployment. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771234(v=ws.10).aspx for more details about RMS. So, going back to Office 365 and Windows Azure

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SharePoint 2013 – Add a language refinement to your search results

With SharePoint 2013, and SharePoint Online 2013 (currently still in beta), you can add a language refinement to your search results to filter results based on content language To do so: You must have a search center available (I used the Enterprise Search Center site template) Edit the result page (results.aspx) Edit the refinement webpart

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SharePoint 2013 – The file reached the maximum download limit warnings

Since working with SharePoint 2013, I had lot of crawl warning saying the file was not fully indexed as it reached the maximum download limit: “The file reached the maximum download limit warnings. Check that the full text of the document can be meaningfully crawled”. Clearly, it was an ‘issue’ with the new search engine

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