News feeds not working in SharePoint 2013 - microsoft.office.server.microfeed.microfeedexception

To know about Micro Blogging in SharePoint 2013, read this post. When I tried to use the News Feed Feature in SharePoint 2013, it thrown exception: microsoft.office.server.microfeed.microfeedexception The below is the screenshot:   Solution: As I mentioned in the earlier post about...

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Micro blogging in SharePoint 2013

Introduction: Microsoft has introduced a new social feature called “Micro blogging” in SharePoint 2013 to enhance the social networking and collaboration features. This powerful feature is added as an OOTB web part to SharePoint 2013 and ready to useJ So, what is micro blogging? It is a type...

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Migrate SharePoint 2010 to 2013

In this article, we will learn how to migrate SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. This migration is applicable for OOTB features migration not for Custom Solution migration to SharePoint 2013. Steps:       1. Change the Authentication mode of SharePoint 2010 application...

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Create Custom Page Layouts in SharePoint 2013

In this article we will learn how to create Custom Page Layouts for SharePoint 2013. Like SP 2010, we can create Custom Page Layouts in SharePoint 2013 using Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2013 either from the scratch or by using the existing Layouts. New in SharePoint 2013: In SharePoint...

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Creating Master Page with HTML Templates in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 has many new and improved design features for designing and branding it. In SP 2013, a new concept called Design Manager has been introduced where all the site branding is managed. The following article explains the step by step process of converting HTML Master Pages for using Design...

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Audit Logging in SharePoint 2013

Audit Logging gives the following information in Site Collection: Opening or downloading documents, viewing items in lists, or viewing item properties Editing items Checking out or checking in items Moving or copying items to another location in the site Deleting or restoring items Editing content...

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Unexpected error occurred while communicating with Administration Service

Scenario: I ran into the following issue when attempting to access  Fast search features such as: 1. FAST Search keywords 2. Fast Search site promotion and demotion 3. Fast search user context Solution: I checked my Administrators group in the SP server. Fast Search ADMIN account...

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Sign in as different user in SharePoint 2013

In all the versions of SharePoint, we have option for signing in as different user which helps us in various scenarios. Also, it helps in testing purposes. But in SharePoint 2013, we do not have this option.  In this article we will know how to achieve this: 1. When you log in to a SharePoint site,...

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Snipping Tool in Windows Server 2012

Snipping tool is very nice tool for capturing the screens which comes with latest versions of Windows. In this article lets see how to enable the snipping tool in Windows Server 2012. Snipping tool is not installed in the default installation of Windows OS. We have to enable it manually. Steps: 1....

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