How to detect host named site collections

26/02/2014 Leave a comment


$webApp = Get-SPWebapplication "blog.bugrapostaci.com"
foreach($spSite in $webApp.Sites)
{
if ($spSite.HostHeaderIsSiteName)
{ Write-Host $spSite.Url 'is host-named' }
else
{ Write-Host $spSite.Url 'is path based' }
}

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SharePoint Pages are not loaded correctly behind Load Balancer.

19/01/2013 Leave a comment

Assume following scenario ;
You have a custom 3rd party load balancer and you would like to publish only a Subsite of a site collection in SharePoint 2010 through NLB. This scenario is one of specific one , and usually is not supported all load balancers.
Some of 3rd party load balancer can be configure with rules for extra redirections.

In Our Scenario we have
One 3rd party network load balancer (NLB) which is also supporting SSL termination.
And we have a SharePoint farm which is publishing following site
http://blog.bugrapostaci.com -> is our root site collection and we don’t want to redirect through load balancer,
There should be many reasons you don’t want to publish root site directly; security concern, or already referencing another site etc.
https://blog.bugrapostaci.com/Information -> this is our subsite that we want to request through NLB . We are assuming that this site is not contains any customization and pure Sharepoin Team site template.
(Because some customized sites can be requesting extra Web Services or URLs to configure)

First you need to configure your load balancer with SSL termination and installing correct certificate which is out of scope for this article then on SharePoint you need to configure Alternate Access Mapping correctly supporting HTTPS termination.

A sample of correct configuration like this;

Internal URL                                    Zone      Public URL
https://blog.bugrapostaci.com  internet https://blog.bugrapostaci.com
http://blog.bugrapostaci.com     internet https://blog.bugrapostaci.com

Than you need to add rules for NLB for redirecting requests to correct server by HTTPS protocol and any URL contains subsite string of “Information” (our subsite part) . For configuration and how to adding rules to NLB you may need to contact with NLB vendor or check for the usage Manuel.

But this rules are not enough; if you check the site you can detect that page is not working correctly. Why ? Because when you make a request a page it has need to make extra sub requests
You can detect which requests are done at background using Fiddler2 or using F12 Developer tool for IE or Firebug extension of Firefox browser.

Here you can see a sample request when I browse the page of https://blog.bugrapostaci.com/Information site

requests

In you can see details; there are 43 requests more.

…
/Information/SitePages/Home.aspx        38,838  private, max-
/ScriptResource.axd?d=3deuDBoJpstM_vnvogSCBV0kbvg4UPvUtpa
/ScriptResource.axd?d=A9qblnwldHbcO4ZGhCK8Ss2nKdc2cWEIJ75
/WebResource.axd?d=Q1l5fspXysTdsR10hp_rImYHRKCODxQ3Hk5D7d
/_layouts/1033/init.js?rev=lEi61hsCxcBAfvfQNZA%2FsQ%3D%3D
/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/corev4.css?rev=3TRomkG1g2g
/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/search.css?rev=T%2Bhraxktc
/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/wiki.css?rev=9pXM9jgtUVYAH
/_layouts/blank.js?rev=QGOYAJlouiWgFRlhHVlMKA%3D%3D
/_layouts/images/bgximg.png
/_layouts/images/blank.gif
…

And some of the is directly coming from root site. That’s mean just adding a rule for redirecting only subsite string of “Information” is not enough.Here is a sample list for possible requests coming form when you make a request to Subsite. You should add necessary rules for this requests.

“/Information” -> the subsite url part.
“/_controltemplates”
“/_layouts”  -> Images ,Styles, Javascripts
“/_vti_bin”
“/_wpresouces”
“/App_Browsers”
“/App_GlobalResources”
“/wpresouces”
“/_app_bin”
“/_vti_pvt”
“/_forms”
“/_login”
“/_windows”
“/ScriptResource.axd” -> Handlers
“/WebResource.axd”  -> Handlers.

this sample is only valid for pure SharePoint Team Site Template without customization ; So if you have some customizations and extra webservices requests or using another paths .
I could not you tell extra url names but I can show you how could you catch a fish

You can test with;

Getting a Fiddler,Developer Tool for IE or Firebug extension for Firebug trace on Server without https and make request to your Subsite . You can see all needed requests and files need to be loaded for working this page is correctly. Make a list for it;
Do it same operation behind Load Balancer and test , add missing redirections to 3rd party load balancer rules for them.

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How to collect IIS Logs for a SharePoint Web Application

12/04/2012 1 Comment

Hello All,

When working with Microsoft Support for some cases the support engineers ( like me ) may request IIS Logs for investigation.
So in this article i am going to tell how you can collect IIS Logs correctly.

1) You have to detect your IIS Web site on IIS Console because your site url and your web application name can be different.
First connect your Central Administration and click “Managed Web Application”‘s link .

but my Web Application Name is SharePoint – 8080

2) Open your IIS Manager and find and click your webapplication name

3) Click the “Advanced Settings” in Action pane.

4) Please not your IISsite ID for this example is 1442344892

5) Click “Logging” icon

6) Detect where the IIS logs are kept in which folder

7) Open this folder in Windows Explorer and find your related folder in it according your IISSite ID. In this scenario the folder is W3SVC1442344892
You can open windows explorer by “Start” -> “Run” and copy paste highlighted path on above screenshot and press enter.

8) Open that folder and order by “Modified Date” as descending order

9) Collect your files according to occurrance time of your problem or issue. If you have a workspace opened by Microsoft and your file size are big , you can compress the files with a compression program.

Notes: IIS buffers the logs in memory for a while before write to the log file (until log buffer chuck size has reached its max size). If you want to catch latest records you may need to do an iisreset or open a command prompt and type  “netsh http flush logbuffer” (this command will provide http.sys to flush logs.)
to force iis write cached log chunk to log file. If you are searching for old records that “Modifed Date” earlier than last log date you dont need this operation.

Have a nice log hunting 🙂

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Create all users’ personal site via Powershell script – Sharepoint 2010

03/10/2011 Leave a comment 

#PowerShell Script - Create All Users Personel Sites - SharePoint 2010 #The scripts is distributet "as-is." Use it on your own risk. 
#Add SharePoint PowerShell SnapIn if not already added if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
    Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
}

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")

$mysiteHostUrl = "http://my"
$personalSiteGlobalAdmin = "DOMAIN\padm"
$personalSiteGlobalAdminNot ="padm@bugrapostaci.com"
$personalSiteGlobalAdminDisplayName = "Personel Site admin"
$mysite = Get-SPSite $mysiteHostUrl

$context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($mysite)
$upm =  New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context)

$AllProfiles = $upm.GetEnumerator()

foreach($profile in $AllProfiles)
{

    $DisplayName = $profile.DisplayName
    $AccountName = $profile[[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyConstants]::AccountName].Value
       #Add your restrictions for users.        if($Accountname -like "YourDomain*")
       {
          if($profile.PersonalSite -eq $Null)
          {
               write-host "Creating personel site for ", $AccountName
               $profile.CreatePersonalSite()
               #Adding an extra admin for personel sites                $pweb = $profile.PersonalSite.OpenWeb()
               $pweb.AllUsers.Add($personalSiteGlobalAdmin,$personalSiteGlobalAdminNot,$personalSiteGlobalAdminDisplayName,$null);
               $padm= $pweb.AllUsers[$personalSiteGlobalAdmin];
               $padm.IsSiteAdmin = $true;
               $padm.Update();
               $pweb.Dispose();
               write-host "Personal Site Admin has assigned"
          }
          else
          {
               write-host $AccountName ," has already personel site"
          }
   }
}
$mysite.Dispose();

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Sharepoint 2010 – Delete all users’ personel sites via powershell

03/10/2011 Leave a comment 

#PowerShell Script - Delete All Users Personel Sites - SharePoint 2010
#The scripts is distributet "as-is." Use it on your own risk. The author give no warranties, guarantees or conditions.

#Add SharePoint PowerShell SnapIn if not already added
 if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
    Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
}
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")

$mysiteHostUrl = "http://my"
$mysite = Get-SPSite $mysiteHostUrl
$context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($mysite)

$upm =  New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context)

$AllProfiles = $upm.GetEnumerator()

foreach($profile in $AllProfiles)
{
   $DisplayName = $profile.DisplayName
   $AccountName = $profile[[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyConstants]::AccountName].Value  

   if($profile.PersonalSite -ne $Null)
   {

	   $profile.PersonalSite.Delete()
	   write-host $AccountName , " personel site deleted successfully"
   }
}
$mysite.Dispose();

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