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…
In many situation you would like to do a offline installation of SharePoint 2013 or you are required to do a offline installation because you do not have a network connection on the server. The prerequisites installer of SharePoint 2013 downloads the requirements directly of the internet. So we will have to make sure this…
Customizing a list view could be done by using XSLT in previous version of SharePoint. In SharePoint 2013 this van be done by using the “JS Link” functionality. The “JS Link” functionality is included in list view web parts of SharePoint. You can use this property for adding specific JavaScript files. You can add 1…
During my current project we received an access request from a user. We did what we normally do, we checked the request and added the user in the appropriate SharePoint Group and notified the user. After 15 minutes the user told us that it wasn’t working. We looked at the User Group and found out…
Update :Microsoft is stopping with public facing websites for new Office 365 clients, existing ones will have another 2 year support. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-confirms-it-is-dropping-public-website-feature-from-sharepoint-online/ When you buy an Office 365 tenant you get the option to build a Public website within the SharePoint administration panel. Creating a website will give you the following URL by default: http://[tenant]-public.sharepoint.com.…
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…
During my current project we are using a lot of PowerShell scripts to administrate the environment and make development easier for us. In this post that I will try to update frequently, I will share some of our useful PowerShell scripts. Disabling or Enabling Access Request Within our project we had an application with about…
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…
For a couple of days we have been trying to connect our On-Premise SharePoint 2013 environment with our On-Premise BizTalk 2013 environment using the SharePoint adapter. During this process we encountered several errors that I would like to share with you. After configuring the SharePoint Adapter (you can read about it on MSDN here) and…
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…
When I was setting up a new SharePoint environment this week I was getting very annoyed about perflib error messages within the event log: “The Open Procedure for service “WmiApRpl” in DLL “C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wmiaprpl.dll” failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error…