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Office 365 new Partner Admin Center feature

03/02/2014 Leave a comment

The new Office 365 Partner admin center provides Partners new and enhanced tools to manage their Office 365 customers. The new Office 365 Partner admin center is rolling out to partners worldwide over the next few weeks. Previously, with Partner tools in the Office 365 admin center, you could perform delegated administration tasks on behalf of customers and create trial invitations, purchase offers, and offers for delegated administration. With the tools in the new Partner admin center, you are now also able to:

View the customers for which you have delegated admin privileges—all in one place.
Easily find, select, and perform administrative tasks on behalf of your customers.
View your customers’ Office 365 service health status and details.
Create, edit, and view service requests on behalf of your customers

For more info:
http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/28/introducing-the-new-office-365-partner-admin-center/

Filed under SharePoint Online Tagged with Admin, Center, News, Office365, Partner, SharePoint Online

Microsoft is retiring InfoPath and investing in new forms technology across SharePoint

03/02/2014 Leave a comment

Here is some headlines from official article:

In an effort to streamline our investments and deliver a more integrated Office forms user experience, we’re retiring InfoPath and investing in new forms technology across SharePoint, Access, and Word. This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is the last release of InfoPath Forms Services. The InfoPath Forms Services technology within Office 365 will be maintained and it will function until further notice.

If you’re an InfoPath customer, we want to reassure you that we’re working on migration guidance in parallel as we’re building our next generation of forms technology. Until we have more detailed technology roadmap and guidance to share with you, we encourage you to continue using InfoPath tools. We also want to remind you that the InfoPath 2013 desktop client and InfoPath Forms Services for SharePoint Server 2013 will continue to be supported through 2023 as part of our Lifecycle support policy.

1. Will Microsoft be shipping another version of InfoPath? No, there will not be another version of the InfoPath desktop client or InfoPath Forms Services. We are focusing all of our investments on new intelligent, integrated forms experiences across Office technology.

2. How long will InfoPath be supported?

The InfoPath 2013 client will be supported through April 2023.
InfoPath Forms Services for SharePoint Server 2013 will be supported until April 2023.
InfoPath Forms Services in Office 365 will be supported until further notice.

For more information on InfoPath Forms Services support in Office 365, please review our Online Services Support Lifecycle Policy.

http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/

Filed under SharePoint 2013 Tagged with Infopath, Office365, Retiring, Sharepoint, SPS2013

Publishing Field encoding extra “?” questionmark charecters (actually acsii 8203 zero width space )

02/02/2014 Leave a comment

Assume that you have created a new article page then Typed some string in Page Content.
After Selected this content and make it bold.
Then clicked the
HTML Source.-> In html source we see following looks no unusual charecter in it .
sharepoint

But if we copy this string tsource to another program for example notepad++ We can see “?” sharepoint? …. or if you run following powershell:

$site = get-spsite http://contoso
$web = $site.OpenWeb()
$list = $web.Lists[“Pages”]
$page = $list.GetItemById(<ItemId>)
$page[“Page Content”]

Result is same :sharepoint?

+It is happen only when the first page created and saved.
+Issue happen when we reach data with OM or copy paste outside of the SharePoint to another advanced text editor program.

You may face this issue Both SharePoint 2010 and Sharepoint 2013

Unfortunately this is by design . The “Page Content” field or Publishing HTML Fields uses RTE (Rich text editor). RTE sometimes adds zero width space (&#8203) as a workaround to ensure cursor range selection is correct in some browsers. When viewing “HTML Source”, browser HTML doesn’t render zero width space character. But after copying the string out,like notepad++ and powershell renders it as an unknown character (?). It is rare condition and not happen always and depends many various factors But if you have facing this
For a resolution, you may need use some custom codes for remove that charecter in related string.
String.Replace( ((char)8203).ToString(), “” );

Filed under Sharepoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 Tagged with 8203, ?, ascii, Publishing Field, questionmark, RichTextEditor, RTE, Sharepoint, SPS2013, zero width space

Content Type Publishing does not publish SPD reusable workflow along with Content Type for SharePoint 2010

02/02/2014 Leave a comment

Content type Publishing will include workflow associations, but not the workflow themselves. It is by design , In SharePoint 2010, Content Type Publishing will include the workflow association, however the actual workflow is not published. To work around this behavior, workflows should be manually created or transferred to the site before the Content Type and workflow association are published.

Filed under Sharepoint 2010 Tagged with Content-type, Publishing, Reusable, Sharepoint, SPS2010, Workflow

SharePoint 2013 Workflows are not working issue

01/02/2014 Leave a comment

If you are facing following symptoms and your workflows are not working ;

01/17/2014 16:29:17.11 w3wp.exe (0x1740) 0x1500 SharePoint Foundation Authentication Authorization ajmmu Medium Permission check failed. asking for 0x10000, have 0x2000000000
01/17/2014 16:29:17.11 w3wp.exe (0x1740) 0x1500 SharePoint Foundation CSOM afxwb High System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurableObject.CheckPermissions(SPBasePermissions
permissionMask) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SPClientServiceHost.OnBeginRequest()
at

01/17/2014 16:29:17.13 w3wp.exe (0x210C) 0x2648 SharePoint Portal Server UserProfiles ae0sx Unexpected
Error trying to search in the UPA. The exception message is ‘Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException:
UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException_Logging ::UserProfileApplicationProxy.ApplicationProperties

RequestorId: 688a2648-fa2d-617b-b6ef-c5059d97480d. Details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 401 {“error_description”:”The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug> configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs.”} {“x-ms-diagnostics”:[“3001000;reason=\”There has been an error authenticating the request.\”;category=\”invalid_client\””],”SPRequestGuid”:[“688a2648-fa2d-617b-b6ef-c5059d97480d”],”request-id”:[“688a2648-fa2d-617b-b6ef-c5059d97480d”],”X-FRAME-OPTIONS”:[“SAMEORIGIN”],”SPRequestDuration”:[“18″],”SPIisLatency”:[“2″],”Cache-Control”:[“private”],”WWW-Authenticate”:[“Bearer realm=\”ada7f9dd-5619-496c-9ad2-03bec5bb978e\”,client_id=\”00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000\”,trusted_issuers=\”00000005-0000-0000-c000-000000000000@*,00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000@ada7f9dd-5619-496c-9ad2-03bec5bb978e\””,”NTLM”],”X-AspNet-Version”:[“4.0.30319″],”X-Powered-By”:[“ASP.NET”],”X-Content-Type-Options”:[“nosniff”],”X-MS-InvokeApp”:[“1; RequireReadOnly”],”MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices”:[“15.0.0.4481″],”Date”:[“Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:04:05 GMT”]} at Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
Check for your

TroubleShooting Steps:
1) Check that your SharePoint 2013 has latest CU has installed.
2) Check that Workflow Manager and Service Bus features has latest patches.
3) User Profile Service Proxy is up and running and the related Web Application has connected this service Proxy .

You can reset Proxy connection as below:
CA-> Application Management -> Manage Web Application
Select related your web application
Click Service Connections on the ribbon
Deselect/ Reselect UPA Proxy service connections.

4) Check and define all your Web Application’s Application pool , STS Service Application pool , UPA Service Application identities.

5) Open CentralAdministration -> Application Management -> Manage Service Application
6) Select User Profile Service Application
7) Click the Permissios button on the ribbon
8) Add if any missing account belong to Web Application’s ,STS Service’s or UPA Service Applications’s pool identities with Full Control.