Category Archives: SharePoint

Power View Resources

I was doing some research on Power View capabilities recently and came across some good blogs on it, thought I will compile and share it:
Video Series: Visualizing the Summer Olympics. Microsoft Senior Program Manager Sean Boon created a good blog series on Power View. He talks about how you can set custom images in power [...]

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Workflow Manager Installation Error: Adding host to Service Bus Farm

I was trying to get the new workflow engine installed and configured with SharePoint 2013 but was encountering an error in the Service Bus configuration step.
Installation Instruction for Workflow Manager and SharePoint 2013 Workflow Configuration:
The full installation steps are provided here (in a video series): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn201724.aspx and here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193478
The instructions provided above are pretty detailed [...]

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Installing and Configuring Small SharePoint Farm in VirtualBox

I recently installed and configured a small SharePoint farm containing two virtual servers using Oracle Virtual Box and decided to share my experience of the process. For the most part the configuration is simple, but there are a number of common small discrepancies that can be the difference between your servers communicating correctly, or you [...]

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Sandboxing – Declarative Object Provisioning and Threads

So you say you can’t populate a list declaratively in SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed solutions?

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Visio Services-Binding Data to Line Graph

Visio Professional 2013 allows users to bind dynamic data to shapes, external images, sheets, graphs, and just about anything else you can put in a Visio doc. Out of the box, Visio provides some data graphics which allows you to display this data visually. The exhaustive list of data graphics provided is: text callouts, data [...]

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Performance Point – the Good and the Bad – Part 1

This posting presumes the reader has at least a basic understanding of what Microsoft’s Performance Point (PP) offering is, at least at the level of wanting to assess whether it is appropriate for your requirements. Basic familiarity with Microsoft’s Analysis Services is also required to get the most out of the observations I provide. If [...]

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Use SP.SOD.executeFunc(a,b,c) to load the SharePoint JavaScript libraries when needed

A couple weeks ago, I was building a stock quote for a master page that required two images stored in /Style Library/Custom/; the images represented the typical stock quote arrows. In order to provide the JavaScript code with the correct location of the site collection’s root I was using the following directly in my code [...]

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Updating Filter Categories – Modifying the People Refinement Web Part

1. Open PeopleResults.aspx page in edit mode

 
2. Click on the refinement panel drop down and click on Edit Web Part

3. On the People Refinement Panel Editor, expand the Refinement panel

4. Click on the Elipses (…) on the Filter Category Definition

5. Change the FilterCategories XML
Copy the XML from the editor window (step 4) into an XML [...]

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Best Practices–Disposing SharePoint objects

Good reference on MSDN documentation for guidance on good coding practices for SharePoint:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973248.aspx#sharepointobjmodel__otherobjectsthatrequiredisposal
The SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool can give false positives (or negatives) so this documentation should provide additional guidance

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