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Aug 25, 2015

SharePoint 2016 Preview Arrived

August 25, 2015 Marudu No comments

I am excited to share the news with my blog readers that SharePoint 2016 Preview is arrived and it is available for download in the below link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48712

SharePoint 2016 Forum Discussions:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/home?forum=SP2016
Customer Feedback Link:
http://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/282887-customer-feedback-for-sharepoint-server

Soon will explore on SharePoint 2016 and post you all about the new features and updates :)

SharePoint 2013 / Office 365

July 13, 2015 Marudu No comments

I wanted to try some proof of concepts using SharePoint 2013 and been looking for various easy options to get the SP 2013.
Hence I wanted to list the easy ways to get SharePoint 2013 for the readers. Below is the list:

Office 365 Trial :

https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans

On-Premises Deployment:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sharepoint-server-2013

Windows Azure:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/?CR_CC=200256621&WT.mc_id=A24158309

SharePoint Online:

https://products.office.com/en-us/SharePoint/compare-sharepoint-plans?legRedir=true&CorrelationId=08d4bcac-2e4e-4269-9981-1deb00da1ad9

SharePoint Rackspace:

http://sharepoint.rackspace.com/free-sharepoint-2013#chat

Cloud Share:

http://www.cloudshare.com/cloudshare-template-library

This are the some of the easier ways to get the trial versions for SharePoint 2013. Please share this post if this is helpful. Happy Sharing!

SharePoint 2013 Certification

December 18, 2012 Marudu No comments

Below is the links to know about initial release for Certifications in SharePoint 2013:

Exam 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-331

Exam 70-332:Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-332

Basics of Web Services

December 11, 2012 Marudu No comments

Introduction:

In this article, we aim at learning the basics of web services and understand how does web service works.

WebService:

1. Web services are the easy way to create communications between different applications of different platform.

2. Web Services extend these models a bit further to communicate with the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to eradicate the object-model-specific protocol barrier.

Components of Web Service:

All the standard Web Services works using following components

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol):

SOAP is an XML-based protocol to let applications exchange information over HTTP. Simply, SOAP is a protocol for accessing a Web Service.

It is a communication protocol and it is a format for sending messages.
It is designed to communicate via Internet (W3C standard)
It is platform and language independent
SOAP allows you to get around firewalls

WSDL (WebServices Description language):

It is a W3C standard used to describe and locate the web service in XML language format.

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration):

It is a directory for storing information about web service
It communicates via SOAP
It is built on .NET platform

Why web service?

Interoperability
Usability
Deployability
Reusability

For more details on the advantages and disadvantages refer this MSDN article: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/435f43a9-ee17-4700-8c9d-d9c3ba57b5ef

To know about creating a web service using ASP .NET read this article.

To know about consuming a web service using ASP .NET read this article.

SharePoint 2013

July 25, 2012 Marudu No comments

Everyone knows SharePoint 2013 server and SharePoint 2013 foundation has been released with many new features by Microsoft.

Here are the few links for the SharePoint 2013 for the start up:

Let’s start using SharePoint 2013 and start collaborating more than ever!

The file reached the maximum download limit. Check that the full text of the document can be meaningfully crawled

June 04, 2012 Marudu No comments

Scenario:

When the users are trying to upload large size files in the portal, they are getting the following error and they are unable to upload large size files to the SharePoint site.

The file reached the maximum download limit. Check that the full text of the document can be meaningfully crawled

Also, the Search results are not showing some of the files in the search results.

Solution:

I read an interesting post which helps in fixing this issue. Below is the link.

http://www.imason.com/imason_Blogs/b/suleman_ibrahim/archive/2009/05/25/uploading-and-indexing-large-files-in-a-moss-site.aspx

Happy Sharing!

The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct

June 04, 2012 Marudu No comments

This is one of the common issues in the Microsoft Search Server 2008. In the Search Server logs in the Search Server Administration, the following errors are logged:

The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct

Also the search is not showing the results of some office documents which are having embedded links in it.

Solution:

Installing the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs will fix this problem. This package will add the DLL’s to the machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17062

Usage of this Package:

IFilters are components that allow search services to index content of specific file types, letting you search for content in those files. They are intended for use with Microsoft Search Services (SharePoint, SQL, Exchange, and Windows Search).

Happy Sharing!

The Parameter is incorrect crawl error Search Server

March 17, 2012 Marudu 2 comments

In this article, we are going to discuss about a strange issue with Microsoft Search Server.

Scenario:

Usually with the SharePoint, we will install Microsoft Search Server for providing the users a search function.

We will configure the content source in Search Server Admin page and crawler indexes the contents and will display the results in the search depending upon the user query.

The below figure shows the Search Server Overview:

Content Sources – The link where the SharePoint site is configured for crawling

Crawl Log – The logs of the crawler

Sometimes we will get the “The Parameter is incorrect” in the crawl log and then onwards, the search server stops crawling the new contents and no results will be displayed in the search result.

Root Cause:

This is due to a limit that a SharePoint user group cannot have more than 1000 users in a single SharePoint group.

Resolution:

The only way is to either decrease the number of users in the group which has exceeded the 1000 users or to split the user groups (Check the reference article below).

The reason behind is

During the indexing process, the system stores the ACE of each user who was added to a SharePoint group instead of the ACE of the SharePoint group itself. This process supports approximately 1000 users per access control list (ACL), after which the "Parameter is incorrect" error causes crawling to fail.

Reference Article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx

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