16 Thursday May 2013
Posted in SharePoint 2013
Please note that the below method is now redundant as long as you have SP 2010 April 2011 Cumulative Update installed. For more details please read this excellant blog post by Shawn Cicoria.
You can get the same to work now by running the PowerShell script below:
This creates a sliding session effect whereby as soon as there is any activity before the expiry of the token it (the token) is renewed and it will usually only expire if there is 60 minutes of inactivity.
16 Thursday May 2013
Posted in SharePoint 2013
Yaaa you may be asking what’s been a long time about… it is about posting on my blog, tell you the truth, it needs time & I am soooO busy. Other than this sometimes I lose the motivation of posting but never lost it to discover everything new about SharePoint 
no never will I.
Adding to this, I want to post valuable information in a v professional way to reach the idea to all the people.
So at least I share what I think may help someone out there. I receive lots of questions mostly through email or facebook chat or through group, I answer whenever I have free time, but I keep blaming myself if I am busy to answer ya I do.
I really want to post what people need and what they are struggling on, and what they are searching for and can’t find it but come on, the Internet is full of information but is it what you are looking for, sometimes yes & sometimes no.
Definitely I love being unique, I think I am but talking here now about Blogging about SharePoint.
So in this post I want to hear from everyone in the comments, what are you struggling in regarding SharePoint .. I hope your questions will be about 2013 .. J come on, if you are still on 2007 or earlier, please hide somewhere if it is 2010 I will forgive you, if it is 2013, please ask immediately J
This will help you and help everyone .. I will approve the comments once I see it and reply to it too.
Not to mention, if you want a video so you think it will be easier for you to solve your problem, mention it & I can explain in a video rather than in a post or both J
Good Luck SharePointers and waiting your comments… J
25 Monday Feb 2013
Posted in SharePoint 2013
So .. I was browsing SharePoint 2013 REST http://servername/_api/site today and all I was getting is the below:
While you still can right click and view source and you will see the XML because if you have feed reading view on, you will not able to see the XML
FYI I am using IE 10, so in order to view XML in IE 10: do the steps below:
Now the feed viewer will not be showing, but the data will be displayed in XML.
Then I was able to see the XML J while it works without needing to do anything in Chrome … Ya I hear you but what to do.
This has nothing to do with SharePoint 2013 but it has to do with XML in IE.
Enjoy browsing J
23 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted in SharePoint 2010
I have been thinking what to write about my experience in the ESPC .. but I thought if I kept thinking I will forget and get more busy and won’t write anything which is the thing that happens a lot. So I thought I just open the document and write what I experienced and that will be more from my heart than being arranged in bullets. This is not a technical article anyway.
I was speaker in the ESPC; my session was about “What’s new in the SharePoint Designer 2013″ enjoy the slides
European SharePoint Conference @ Conpenhagen … It was my first trip to Europe. Great experience, great adventure.. no matter what, the best part is meeting SharePointers J
The Conference was in a great venue, the organizers did really hard work to make it happen in that way. THANK YOU AGAIN & AGAIN.
Please correct me if I am wrong but really this is the biggest SharePointers gathering I have ever seen, it was always Tech.Ed that have big number of attendees and sessions but it was more than just SharePoint sessions now this one was for SharePointer Lovers only
Great sessions, Impressive keynotes. Around 1500 attended, 78 sponsor, 90 sessions.
SharePointers who really love this product, you will find them; helpful & Volunteer people.. help you find what you need, solves your problem, try to find solution with you and more.. and on top of this they are collaborative people indeed .. it is my experience with most of the conferences & events too.
ESPC Dinner was really amazing gathering, I was really happy to be there, I meet people I only follow them on Twitter or FB or there blogs & who they follow me too, I meet them in person; which is really v nice J and hope to see them again soon.
One Impressive person I have been a year blogging with him Dave Coleman [MS MVP] but never met him, in the conference I had the chance to say hi J
As always best speaker ever Raffel Lukawiecki, this time he had a keynote which is really valuable.
SharePointers Ladies: Agnes Molnar, Erica Toelle & Sonja Madsen.
Actually more and more and more.. people I never knew but was amazing and talented, like Mike Fitzmaurice gorgeous, his experience was really obvious.
I call them my friends, Joel Oleson, Michael Noel, Paul J. Swider, and I hope Bjørn Furuknap doesn’t mind to call him friend too who gave me lots of advices there and I really enjoyed listening to him ” I will do it, I didn’t forget “.
I will not make it long, let me share some pics I have honor to meet those people with me.
If you missed it .. try to don’t miss it next year, it is yearly Europe SharePoint Conference ..
18 Friday Jan 2013
Posted in SharePoint 2010
I’m speaking at #ESPC13 on “What’s new in SharePoint Designer 2013″. Come Join Me 4-7 Feb Copenhagen! http://bit.ly/VzSXJ7
If you have been using SharePoint Designer 2010, then you need to attend this session, Because SharePoint Designer 2013 has lots of enhancements that you will need to be aware of. If you were building Workflows or DVWP, then you need to see the changes, there are big changes and new features in SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows that we will not only talk about but we will see it in a demo. http://www.sharepointeurope.com/conferences/session/176/whats-new-in-sharepoint-2013-designer
Waiting to see you all there J
17 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in SharePoint 2010
I'm going to post a few articles about the process I went through to get this implemented.
There are a few things that aren't documented that I wanted to catch in these posts, to prevent any further hair loss in the Sharepoint world.
In this first post I will detail how to install and configure SSO. You will only need to configure SSO if you are using SQL authentication to connect to SQL Server.
17 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in SharePoint 2010
This is the second part of a two part post. The first part can be seen here
Now that we have SSO setup and working, we now need to create and import the application definition.
I'm not going to go into to much detail on how to create a application definition, but there are various tools available that you can use (
30 Sunday Sep 2012
If you know how to do it, do it; if not, then please don’t.
Any mess here with SPD and creating new pages for existing lists, while you never know or never tried and it is your first time, then practice first in a test environment, either wise you will break the list and I know it so I am telling you here first as advice and at the end it is up to you.
So here I am showing you how to create new default page for “New Item” in SharePoint List, open SPD and choose your list, in this settings page in SPD as below, there is a section called “Forms” where it has 3 pages:
“DispFrom.aspx”: Display form, just to view the item.
“EditForm.aspx”: to edit the item
“NewForm.aspx”: to create new item.
Click the New button on top right of the Forms box, and it will be open new window “Create New List Form”
Here it asks you, what is the type of this form: which is 3 pages, and you choose if it is the default or not.
Once you are done, go to your list via browser, and click new item, since it pop-up the page, right click and check properties, you should see the page you created.
Now you can do changes to this new page created, which I advised previously to watch out while you are doing so.
Good Luck.
29 Saturday Sep 2012
Posted in SharePoint 2010
The new Ribbon functionality in SharePoint 2010 can cause some frustration when creating custom master pages. The trick is to develop a master page with the ribbon always on top of your page without losing functionality and keep the content scrolling working correctly. Sometimes the scroll bars seems to grow outside the browser window leaving the end-user unable to scroll to the bottom of the page.
25 Tuesday Sep 2012
Posted in SharePoint 2010
Yes for now, I believe it will be supported but let’s wait nothing is sure cause now Microsoft said it is not supported with 3 issues.
fortunately Tom Van Gaever solved issue 3. Let me speak with articles I read and saved to share with you.
I think here we need to look at log to get details for the failure.
Issue 3: When you try to start the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, you receive the following error message: The Local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered. Additionally, when you try to run PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint Server 2010, you receive the following error message: Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.xxxxx.xxxxx of the Microsoft .Net Runtime.
That’s why I am saying lets wait to see what happens if Microsoft released SP3 for SharePoint 2010 then may be it will be supported and without issues to install on Windows Server 2012 as said here too: http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=111
Thanks Daniel Brown and Thanks Tom Van Gaever
I haven’t tried it yet, what I tried is Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012, which is definitely works perfect, I will try this on weekend and update this post, save this URL in your favorites and check by next week, I will try on my weekend.
See you next week with updates..
