can SharePoint be a File Server replacement ?

09/11/2013 Leave a comment

Many in the SharePoint market claim that SharePoint can and should replace your file servers. Is this a best practice? Should you plan to move all of your files that currently exist into SharePoint? There are pros and cons to this debate, each of which we’ll outline below link . However, if you don’t want to read this entire article, then you should know that our simple answer is NO.

For more information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163523.aspx

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Does SharePoint Server 2010 SP2 has also contains SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2 updates ?

09/11/2013 Leave a comment

The answer is  YES

Unlikely the previous SP1s of the SharePoint If you have a SharePoint Server 2010 installation , just installing SharePoint Server 2010 SP2 is enough,
You dont need to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2 first.

For more information about SP2 please check my previous article.
https://blog.bugrapostaci.com/2013/07/23/sharepoint-2010-sp2-has-been-released/

 

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How to remove “Open this webpart page in maintenance view” message

09/11/2013 Leave a comment

Assume following scenario

1. Add wiki page in wiki page library
2. edit properties of this page, there is an message

“Open this web part page in maintenance view to delete the problem web parts and remove the personal settings.”
at the bottom of the editing property page.

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this message is usually a false alarm but it can make users annoying. You can remove this message by using JQuery easily.

  1. Integrate the Jquery with your master page.
    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yojoshi/archive/2010/06/17/using-jquery-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx
  2.  Go to the related Library Settings -> Advanced Settings.
  3. And select “Launch forms in a dialog” option to “no” and click ok.That would provide to open dialog boxes as a page and you can use the ribbon to change edit mode of the editform.aspx page.

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  4. Find the item in the library and Click edit Properties
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  5. Click Site Actions -> Edit Page while EditForm.aspx in browsing.
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  6. Add a “Content Editor” web part to related Document Libraries’ EditForm.aspx
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  7. Click HTML-> Edit HTML Source
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  8. Type following Script inside of the HTML Source Windows.

    <script type=”text/javascript”>
    $(document).ready(function() {
    $(“a:contains(‘Open Web Part Page’)”).parent().css(‘display’,’none’);
    });
    </script>

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  9. Click OK and Save the page. IF everyhing is ok you shouldn’t able to see the WebPartMaintenace Message like below.

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  10.  Go to the related Library Settings -> Advanced Settings.
  11.  And select “Launch forms in a dialog” option to “YES” for revert back and click ok

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SharePoint 2013 Workflows – Requirements

28/10/2013 Leave a comment

If you are interested in SharePoint 2013 Workflows. I can say SharePoint 2013 workflows has never been powerful as before. Which is come us with a tremendous improvement and completely new architecture. As every new System and new architecture brings new problems as always been , thats the nature of the new releases , so before going into dark side , you have to sure that you have working with last updates.

For the overview of SharePoint 2013 Workflows you can find more info from MSDN:

Workflow Manager 1.0:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj193528(v=azure.10).aspx

Windows Workflow Foundation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/jj684582.aspx

I would like to share some important upgrade and suggestions that may prevent your pains when you try to adapting the new SharePoint 2013 workflows.

First thing is the prerequisites ;

-> Bold Lines extra requirements and fixes many issues

*Workflow Manager 1.0 RTM (Shipped with SP2013 RTM)
*Workflow Manager 1.0 Service Pack 1
*Workflow Manager 1.0 Client for SharePoint 2013 Servers .
(If you installing Workflow Manager 1.0 via Web Platform installer it is automattically installs if your machine already installed SharePoint 2013)

*Service Bus 1.0
*Service Bus 1.0 Service Pack 1

I would suggest to use Web Platform Installer for install and setup and tracking for new upgrades for Workflow Manager and Service Bus.

*SharePoint 2013
*SharePoint 2013 and at least March PU update.
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/Workflow-Improvements-Changes-SP2013-March-PU-and-RTM-Developer-Tools
*I have suggested that Install Latest Current CU (Currently October 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013)

 *.Net FrameWork 4.5 (It is also SharePoint 2013 prerequisites)
*Always check the .Net FrameWork 4.5 Hotfixes.

For Developers :

*Visual Studio 2012 with latest Upgrade
*Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 RTM (Again use Web Platform Installer for tracing new updates)
*Worflow Manager Tools 1.0 for VS 2012 (If you installing Workflow Manager 1.0 via Web Platform installer it is automattically installs if your machine already installed VS2012)

 

Here Some other Suggestions;

* When after you register your workflow service as below command:

Register-SPWorkflowService -SPSite “http://blog.bugrapostaci.com” -WorkflowHostUri “http://workflow.bugrapostaci.com:12291” -Scope “Workflows” -AllowOAuthHttp
Make sure that you are using -WorkflowHostUri as full FQDN name , otherwise you may face some funcy Access denied issues.

*When you are using developing or testing don’t use System account. You may face also some System.Unauthorize exceptions which is also described technet it is not supported.

*Sometimes when you are working with Visual Studio you may face your latest build doesn’t deployed to the farm. That is a VS Caching problem. Always use latest VS bits. (Restarting VS or killing vshost exe can fixes that issue on next deployment)

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How to ensure the SharePoint 2010 workflows end in given period

28/10/2013 Leave a comment

Many question has been asked about this problem.

in SharePoint Best Practices;

* For performance consideration ; you have to plan your timer jobs will always finish on time.
* You need to choose appropriate schedule interval to do it.

But this is not suitable for every condition ; Let me give some information about the issue.

You have planing to develop a custom timer job  for example this job has responsible to get some remote data from a remote System in 1 minute interval .
And what if the remote operation has taken more than 60sec. or what if that the timer job has faced with some problems and not getting finished itsjob in given period. You got the idea 🙂

In some conditions ; you may need to ensure no matter what ,the timer job has to be finished its job in given period . and If doesnt , you may want to terminate the running instance of the timer job and start a new instance of it.

The problem is here ;

If a timer has over its period and continue to running ; After the period has elapsed the new instance wont be started by  default behaviour of the SharePoint.
In SharePoint there is no way to run  two instance of a same timer job definition at same time

And even you have implemented some control logic in that timer job which responsible for the check and terminate if previous instance has running to stop it. It doesnt work because the timer job code wont be run again so it is never step through the SPTimerJob.Execute() method one more time.

And there is no way in OOB configuration to provide this functionality.

Resolution;

Resolution of this problem is easy but tricky. First you need to have 2 timer job.

EnsureTimerJobFinished

1)  Controler Timer job: (Scheduled) Has responsible to run worker timer job in defined interval and responsible to timing. (if the worker timer job has still running it can kill the previous one and start a new instance)

2)  Worker Timer Job. (Once) : Does the execute actual operation.

3)  If the Controler has detected that the previous instance of the worker timer job still running. It can terminate it. (Or you can extend your solution and make your own decision here)

4) After termination , The Controller can run another instance of the worker timer job.

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