Device channels are a way of using different master pages for different devices. MSDN describes the functionality as followed: “Browsing the web on a mobile device is now so common that a SharePoint site must be optimized for readability and ease of use on smartphones and other mobile devices such as tablets. With device…
There are situations were you would like to start a workflow by using code. In one of my last projects there was that kind of situation, in that project we needed to start a workflow on every item in the SharePoint list. In the past I had done this kind of work many times with…
A few days ago I wrote a post about loading modules in PowerShell by default: “Load modules by default when opening PowerShell”. Today we had to setup a new SharePoint Farm and to perform some default operations we created the PowerShell profile described in that post. The complete configuration of the server went well until…
Working for one my projects we were looking for a solution to only retrieve search results for a specific Content Source. In our scenario we had a External Content Type that was linked to a “FilteredEMail” view of a CRM database. We connected CRM to SharePoint in this scenario because searching in CRM for a…
As a SharePoint developer you do not often get the question what SharePoint version do we need to install. In many situations we see that the Enterprise license is installed. For a project I’m currently working on I got the question to stick to the SharePoint 2013 Standard license. Having this requirement we were looking…
At the moment we are creating a portal based on host named site collections. The root site collection needs to display the sub site collections you have access to. To give you a better understanding of what we created take a look at the following image: Every site in the above image is a host…
As described in my previous post we will be creating a display template for Google maps. When you did not have the change to read part 1 you can do this by using the below link: Google Maps Display Template – SharePoint 2013 – Part 1 In part one we created the item display template…
As the most of you will know by now is that SharePoint 2013 has a new web part called the “Content Search” web part. This web part display’s search result by using specific display templates. For one of our clients we were asked to display location/office information on a Google Maps card based on information…
When investigating the errors in the event log today I stumbled upon a strange error: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.QueryClassificationDictionaryUpdateTimerJobDefinition (ID ad81e6cd-51ef-4baa-aedc-d529219368b5) threw an exception. More information is included below. Expected 1 Managed Metadata Proxy which is default keyword taxonomy for SSA 96233017-f26a-49b7-9950-1b8577beb4f8, but located 2 I new I had configured 2 Managed…
When you have stored the pictures of employees in Active Directory you would like to have the option to synchronize these pictures to their SharePoint profile. This article describes the steps you need to take to import them into the SharePoint profiles. 1. Change the mapping of the Picture profile field. Navigate to the…
Last week the new version of SharePoint 2013 was released on MSDN. As a real SharePoint enthusiasts I directly downloaded the version. Information about this version can be read here. This new version of SharePoint called SharePoint 2013 has a new Installation screen, to give more power to the new Interface. Today I will start…
Microsoft has confirmed that it will take over Yammer for 1,2 milliard dollar. Nice to know it that Yammer will be part of the Microsoft Office department. Since Yammer already supports a integration with SharePoint we will just have to wait and see if it will be integrated in SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint 15). Yammer also…