Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Workflow Manager Installation Error: Adding host to Service Bus Farm

By kadasani | May 15, 2013

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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Sandboxing – Declarative Object Provisioning and Threads

By Duke | April 2, 2013

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

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Best Practices–Disposing SharePoint objects

By kadasani | August 14, 2012

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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Creating a SharePoint BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly to Crawl RSS Data in Visual Studio 2010

By Michael Gerety | July 18, 2012

Overview
In this post, I’ll walk you though how to create a SharePoint 2010  BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly in Visual Studio 2010.
We’re going to create an assembly that will allow us to Crawl RSS Feeds using BCS. 
Creating a BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly project in Visual Studio 2010
First, create a new project selecting the Sharepoint –> [...]

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SharePoint BCS Links

By Michael Gerety | July 18, 2012

Overview
While investigating how to create and deploy custom .NET BCS Connectivity Assemblies, I came across a ton of good links that helped out with some specific issues, and I wanted to share them.
Clearing BCS Service Application Database
The following link describes a method of clearing out the BCS database in order to redeploy BCS custom assemblies [...]

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Great Post on How SharePoint 2010 Load Balancing Works

By Michael Gerety | July 10, 2012

Overview
In reviewing our client’s SharePoint 2010 / FAST farm topology, a lot of questions came up about how load balancing works in SharePoint 2010.  I came across blog post entitled: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The SharePoint Topology Service by Josh Gavant. 
It’s an excellent read and goes into some detail about [...]

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Workaround For Enable-WSManCredSSP:This command cannot be executes because the setting cannot be enabled.

By Michael Gerety | July 10, 2012

Overview
I came across an infuriating issue today after trying to re-enable WSManCredSSP after disabling it to get screenshots for my last blog post on setting up PSRemoting. (you’re welcome!)
When attempting to execute Enable-WSManCredSSP I got the following error:
Enable-WSManCredSSP : This command cannot be executed because the setting cannot be enabled. This can happen if no [...]

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Fixing “Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]” during FAST Search backup

By Michael Gerety | July 9, 2012

Overview
While attempting to execute a FAST Server back-up following the directions on TechNet, we ran into the following error:
Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]: make sure the assembly containing this type is loaded.

This was an issue we hadn’t experienced in production, and were unsure how to resolve.
Solution
After searching around for a while, I found the following post [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Crawled Property Variant Type Codes

By Michael Gerety | July 6, 2012

Overview
Ever have to deal with Crawled Properties in PowerShell, or look through FAST Search FFDumper logs and try to figure out what the type numbers mean?  I have found a couple of random blog posts that cover some, but not all of them, and I’ve tried to find a definitive list.
I finally came across a [...]

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No Results Showing Up in QRServer Queries in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

By Michael Gerety | July 5, 2012

Overview
FAST Search Server 2010 comes with a web application for executing FQL queries against the FAST index, called QRServer.  One of our clients was having an issue executing FQL queries, only getting data back that was being crawled by the FAST Web Crawler, and none of the SharePoint data being crawled by the FAST Content [...]

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