With index capacity now increasing up to 250 million index items spanning 64 components in a search farm, many customers are looking for partial results feature. Essentially customers are looking for an ability to mitigate “full search outage” situation...

  Use Case Description : In Sp2013 Federated search can be defined as using search indexes created by external search sources for e.g. search engines like Bing to supplement SharePoint search results. With federated search, user will be able to query...

  PROBLEM When you create a SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow and you use the Send an email action, you don't have the option to specify a FROM email address. This setting is pulled from the Outgoing Email settings in SharePoint 2013 on-premises...

High-privileged users can embed active content in SharePoint sites. This article describes techniques that SharePoint administrators can use to restrict active content. The risk of active content Active content refers to web markup or controls that execute...

  The SHA-1 hashing algorithm for the Microsoft Root Certificate Program is being decommissioned Introduction This post contains information related to SharePoint Server technologies and associated certificates using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm....

  Part 4 of my post has steps to redirect On-Premises users to host their mysites in Office365 typically referred to as OneDrive for Business. Post this configuration a key ask from users would be to provide an easy way to search for documents from...

  Part1 and Part2 of this post talks about how we can configure two-way Hybrid search with Directory synchronization password sync and eventually enhance the sign in experience of users in. This post assumes that you have successfully configured...

There are many great articles that talks about how to integrate yammer with SharePoint 2010. I am going to try to summarize the important things you need to know about yammer, its features and common errors that may occur during the configuration of yammer...

  Use Case Description : The search results with %5C (the “\” character) will become double encoded (represented as “%255C″). This causes broken links for e.g. when accessing Search Center and performing people search with "user1". At the...

The SearchHostController is related to the SearchServiceInstance. SearchHostController manages the search components that run on a server, and maintains a local repository for linguistic dictionaries. The search components retrieve the linguistic dictionaries...

We recently came across cases where  Profiles of Disabled users in AD are not getting deleted from SharePoint User Profile Service Application when using ADImport. Read further to get more details on the issue & the workarounds . Behavior: When...

In SharePoint 2010/2013 , user identity pass-through delegation will not work when a BCS External Content type (using a SQL Server Data source) is used in a web application with claims-based authentication (Windows authentication and Kerberos) configured...

In SharePoint 2013, selecting a document in a document library does not show the ribbon commands automatically and you need to manually click on the ribbon tabs (Files/ library) to use the commands. In SharePoint 2010, when you select a file checkbox...

This blog will provide some handy information for Setting up Hosted Apps in SHAREPOINT 2013 with ADFS 2.0 As stated in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219806.aspx , SharePoint 2013 SharePoint hosted apps support SAML authentication. Each...

Part1 and Part2 of this post talks about how we can configure two-way Hybrid search with Directory synchronization password sync. Note single sign on is not a core configuration requirement for Hybrid search , it enhances the sign in experience for the...

We have set up outbound search in Part 1 of this post .Now let’s take a look at how to configure inbound search. Configure Inbound Search Inbound from SharePoint Online to company’s corporate network i.e. SharePoint On-premises. User that is not on corporate...

  What is PerfWizard? PerfWizard is a diagnostic tool that helps customers and engineers resolve performance-related issues in their SharePoint deployments. PerfWizard helps you create and deploy Performance Monitor ( PerfMon ) counters through automation...

  SharePoint with Large lists is common scenario in any Sharepoint deployment. While there are Several blogs / Guidance TechNet articles which exist working /Managing Large lists, My blog is particularly about the "List view lookup Threshold"...

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  This blog covers some unique scenarios where UPSS is not designed to work & also scenarios where it works only under specific conditions. Let’s get started. 1. Single Server Farm :UPSS is not designed to start/work on a Single Server Farm How...

We’ve introduced improvements to search in SharePoint 2013 so that it will be easier to display relevant titles and authors in search results. We’ve also introduced some changes how the time of the last document modification is set. This allows now more...

  Are you seeing several errors related to Blob Caching in the ULS Logs / Event Viewer? Various ULS Logs errors: · "An error occurred in the blob cache. The exception message was: 'The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT...

WATCH the Video Here One of the key features in SharePoint 2013 release is to provide our customers a way to move to the cloud on their own terms. A key requirement of today’s IT industry is cloud and on-premise solutions must co-exist. This is where...

Recently I had  worked on couple of an issues where User Profile Synchronization service wasn’t getting started. The issue was specific to one server. Even if we create new UPA then also User Profile Synchronization won’t get started. ULS logs don...

I came across an interesting issue recently where a customer was backing up a site collection via SharePoint Management shell & the backup process was abnormally terminated. This resulted in the Site being in Read only mode & the following message...