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People Picker doesn’t resolve users and groups from Azure Active Directory (AAD) / Grant access to SharePoint 2013 sites using AAD groups

This post talks about how to grant permissions to SharePoint 2013 sites based on AAD groups and why...

Author: Radu Narita Date: 10/07/2014

Configure a SharePoint 2013 Web Application with Forms Based Authentication with a LDAP membership provider

This blog article provides a step-by-step guide with screenshots on how to configure a new Web...

Author: Radu Narita Date: 09/26/2014

SharePoint 2013 - Usage Analytics (the story)

In every new SharePoint version there is a considerable investment put into optimizing the way we...

Author: DanielKloyber Date: 04/03/2014

Customizing filters in SPS2010 Search results page

If you plan to use a Site Column as filter on the Search results page, within Refinement panel, you...

Author: Ana Trisca - SharePoint Technical Lead Date: 11/25/2013

Crawl error SharePoint 2013 - Processing this item failed because of an unknown error when trying to parse its contents.

During various search troubleshooting i came across the following crawling error in the Craw log of...

Author: Sorin Stanila Date: 10/08/2013

SPS2010 : Field cannot be made again visible if defined to be hidden using Visual Studio 2010

During last weeks I encountered in a service request the behavior that after using Visual Studio to...

Author: Vali Voineag - Support Engineer Date: 04/27/2013

Extracting data from ULS logs using logparser

Had an interesting problem today. Received an ULS log file that was 18GB large. Although I knew the...

Author: DanielKloyber Date: 12/13/2012

How to check if lists/webs are used

It sometimes comes handy for a SharePoint Administrator/Site Collection Administrator to see when...

Author: Vali Voineag - Support Engineer Date: 05/11/2012

On SPS 2010 assuming the search is configured using the default XSLT and managed properties, if you...

Author: Sorin Stanila Date: 05/07/2012

Hidden objects in SharePoint "Explorer View"

Imagine the following scenario: a user creates a folder in SharePoint Document Library and gives it...

Author: Cris Ghita [MSFT] Date: 04/04/2012

Talking about SharePoint performance is like talking about rocket-science. SharePoint is not a...

Author: DanielKloyber Date: 03/13/2012

SPS2010 : Target audience cannot resolve SharePoint group name when multiple groups share a common string

On a SPS2010 environment, after installing SP1+Aug Cumulative Update, there seems to be an issue...

Author: Ana Trisca - SharePoint Technical Lead Date: 02/01/2012

MOSS 2007 Issue when Upgrading to SP3 : Ensure enough disk space for Search DB Transaction Log

You may experience the following behavior when upgrading your MOSS2007 environment to SP3: If the...

Author: Ana Trisca - SharePoint Technical Lead Date: 02/01/2012

How to reduce index size and network traffic and assure indexing and search results on every url when indexing a web application extended on multiple urls in a topology where the search service application is shared between farms

Consider the following: You have 2 SharePoint 2010 farms, farm A and farm B. Farm A is hosting the...

Author: Vali Voineag - Support Engineer Date: 01/27/2012

Announcing Professional Advisory Services – Updated Launch Date

Beginning Monday, August 17th, if you contact SharePoint Professional Technical Support requesting...

Author: spblog Date: 07/23/2009

June cumulative update is now available

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Coreserver.msp):...

Author: spblog Date: 07/02/2009

Images Issue Resolved

Hello, For those of you who noticed that the images on this blog were not appearing correctly, this...

Author: spblog Date: 07/02/2009

Business Data Catalog (BDC)

This post will demonstrate the configuration of a SharePoint 2007 BDC application definition and...

Author: spblog Date: 07/01/2009

Hot fix to fix SP2 Trial Issue

The long awaited fix for the product key issue that cropped up after Service Pack 2 is now out. You...

Author: spblog Date: 06/25/2009

STSADM (Part 3)

This is the third of three STSADM posts.  This post covers new commands that have been release...

Author: spblog Date: 06/22/2009

STSADM (Part 2)

This is the second of three STSADM posts we have planned.  This post covers commands that were...

Author: spblog Date: 06/19/2009

STSADM (Part 1)

This is the first of three STSADM posts we have planned.  This first post covers a number of...

Author: spblog Date: 06/18/2009

Welcome!

Welcome to SP Blog.  This purpose of this site is to discuss SharePoint related common issues,...

Author: spblog Date: 06/18/2009