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SharePoint 2013 Preview : How to fix issue in Search Service Application?

2012-10-12T10:41:46Z

Recently I've face some issues while creating Search Service Application in SharePoint 2013 Preview.

After creation Search Service Application, search topology displays the following message: "Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running." When I started full crawl results, it got struck in "Starting".

ULS log shows following information:

Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance
Reason:

Failed to connect to system manager. SystemManagerLocations: net.tcp://<<some location>>
Technical Support Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to connect to system manager. SystemManagerLocations: net.tcp://<<some location>> ---> System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: There was no endpoint listening at net.tcp://sp13beta/E0C7FF/AdminComponent1/Management/NodeController that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.

Reason behind the issue: Operation system prevents few responsible Dlls for Admin component (for search service application) to load.

Fix: Install this KB 2567680 and reboot the system.

NOTE: Rest of the prerequisites are already listed here.

Happy Coding...!!!

How To: Sign in as a different user in SharePoint 2013 Preview

2012-09-25T11:01:00Z

If you have started using SharePoint 2013 Preview, you might have noticed that there is no option to login as a different user. There is an option to sign out, but how to log back in?

One can use the link which is available in SharePoint 2010

/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true

It works in SharePoint 2013 Preview same as SharePoint 2010.

Another option is to use "Run as" while launching your browser.

I believe it is a handy feature to have for developers or administrators to login as different user.

Happy Coding...!!!

How to: Get SPList based on the Internal Name from current SPWeb

2012-05-01T10:23:00Z

While using JavaScript Object Model (ECMAScript) with SharePoint 2010, SP.ListCollection can be used to get SPList by using getById() or getByTitle(), however there is no such method to retrieve the list based on the list’s internal name. I found that SPList.RootFolder.Name is the nearest thing to internal name which SPListItem has. This will be required when site exists in different languages, hence lists are having different titles. So, what we can do here is to get all the lists and iterate over their rootfolder names and match with the desired list internal name. In this scenario we have to invoke executeQueryAsync multiple times.

Here is the code snippet:

var ctx; function getListByInternalName(desiredListName) { this.desireableList = undefined; this.desireableListUrlName = desiredListName; ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current(); this.web = ctx.get_web(); this.lists = web.get_lists(); ctx.load(this.lists); ctx.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.listsRetrievedSuccess), Function.createDelegate(this, this.listsRetrievedError)); } function listsRetrievedSuccess() { this.listEnumerator = lists.getEnumerator(); while (listEnumerator.moveNext()) { var list = listEnumerator.get_current(); var rootFolder = list.get_rootFolder(); ctx.load(rootFolder); } ctx.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.rootFoldersRetrievedSuccess), Function.createDelegate(this, this.rootFoldersRetrievedError)); } function listsRetrievedError() { } function rootFoldersRetrievedSuccess() { listEnumerator.reset(); while (listEnumerator.moveNext()) { var list = listEnumerator.get_current(); var rootFolder = list.get_rootFolder(); var name = rootFolder.get_name(); if (name == desireableListUrlName) { desireableList = list; break; } } if (desireableList !== undefined) { listFoundCallback(); } else { listNotFoundCallback(); } } function rootFoldersRetrievedError() { } function listFoundCallback() { console.log(desireableList.get_title()); } function listNotFoundCallback() { console.log("Matching list not found."); }

We can use the above function by calling like this:

// list url: /MyCustomList getListByInternalName("MyCustomList");

Happy Coding...!!!