Content types publishing across site collections - SharePoint 2013

I was working on SharePoint 2013 project for operations management. We had to create an operations portal to manage projects. After analyzing the requirements , limitation and threshold,  we decided to create a site collection per project. The...

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SharePoint 2013 Farm documentation tool (SPDocumentor)

I have been working on a SharePoint 2013 project and one of my tasks was to document the server farm. Documenting the farm manually takes too much time and i wasn't able to buy a third party tool to do that work. I decided to create...

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Fixing blank lookup columns in SharePoint when creating new site from a site template

One of the common issues when creating a new site from a site Template is that the lookup columns values are blanks. The full scenario is as below : Create a SharePoint site Add lists with lookup columns Insert some data in the lists Save...

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SharePoint 2013 resources on SDPS website

Microsoft has created a website for the SDPS (SharePoint Deployment Planning Services) program. Using this program, a customer can use his software assurance benefits to cover deployment and upgrade  planning services costs. The web site contains...

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August CU Updates for SharePoint 2013 has been released

The August  CU Updates for SharePoint 2013 has been released. Below are links for August CU. KB 2751999 - SharePoint Foundation 2013 KB 2726992 - SharePoint Server 2013 KB 2775426 - SharePoint Server 2013 with Project Server KB 2799821 - Office...

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Fixing Error : GetUserListSchema(): Failed to get the list schema XML for feature

One of the common error that you may encounter when you try deploy a SharePoint solution is : Error 36 Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Cannot complete this action. Please try again. After analyzing the SharePoint...

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SharePoint 2013 Configuration Wizard Error : The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or a sid that cannot be translated

I was setting up a new SharePoint Server 2013 Environment for development purposes. The installation type was "Standalone". At step 8 of the wizard, an error occurred : Exception: System.ArgumentException: The SDDL string contains an invalid...

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The visio stencil for SharePoint , Exchange, Lync and Office 2013

Microsoft have released a Visio stencil that contains more than 300 icons to help you create a nice visual representations of your architectures. You can download the stencil from : New Office Visio Stencil &nbs...

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Office and SharePoint APP DevCamp : Session 3

Dear Developer, You are invited to attend the third Office/SharePoint DevCamps to be held at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Tunis on May 13th  from 9am to 5pm! This is a fun and free event especially for you. For those of you...

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SharePoint 2013 DevCamp - Session 2

Dear Developer, You are invited to attend our second Office/SharePoint DevCamp to be held at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Tunis on April 29th! This is a fun and free event especially for you. The objective is to drive Productivity Apps...

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SPCAF : A very useful code analysis tool for SharePoint

In the last 5 days, my mission was to analyze a set of SharePoint solutions that was developed during 6 months and to write a document that lists things that should be fixed or enhanced. Usually, my analysis tasks is based on FxCop,SPDisposeCheck and...

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Office/SharePoint DevCamps in Tunisia

You are invited to attend the first Office/SharePoint DevCamps to be held at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Tunis on April 15th! This is a fun and free event especially for you. The objective is to drive Productivity Apps for the Office &...

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Installing my SharePoint Server 2013 Farm – Part 3/6

Installing and Securing SQL Server 2012 This tutorial is the third part of the Series "Installing my SharePoint Server 2013 Farm". The series is as follow : Creating the farm virtual machines Installing the Farm Domain Controller (AD DS) Installing...

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Upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013

The upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 can only be done using the Database-Attach method.  The upgrade process is composed by three steps :  Prepare for upgrade Upgrade Database Upgrade Sites Click here to...

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Installing my SharePoint Server 2013 Farm – Part 2/6

Installing the Farm Domain Controller (AD DS) This tutorial is the part 2 of the series « Installing my SharePoint Server 2013 Farm ». The series is as follow : Creating the farm virtual machines Installing the Farm Domain Controller (AD...

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