Hardware Requirements for SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager Server

I was searching on the internet to find out the recommended hardware requirements for workflow manager server but found nothing. I have a business application with custom Visual studio workflows which will be used by about 10,000 user’s .I have configured the separate workflow server and attac... [More]

Configure Business connectivity service application for SharePoint 2013 (On-premises)

Business Connectivity Services is a set of services and features that connect SharePoint-based solutions to sources of external data. This post will explain how to create Microsoft Business connectivity service instance for SharePoint 2013 Farm. Prerequisites Make sure that you have SharePoint 20... [More]

SharePoint 2013 Workflow manager installation on single server Dev Farm

The installation of workflow manager for development environment can be done on single server SharePoint 2013 farm, but it is highly recommended to install it on separate server for UAT and production environments. Prerequisites You need local admin rights on the server where you will install the ... [More]

Updating SharePoint 2013 page’s Page Layout using PowerShell

I have just enabled SSL on our live intranet site and run the full crawl to index everything to https rather than http. Everything works fine apart from default page.  It shows error, when I checked the log file it shows the following error details. GetFileFromUrl: ArgumentException when attem... [More]

Capture SharePoint 2010 environment information before upgrade to SharePoint 2013 Farm

In one of my previous post I mentioned how to clean the SharePoint 2010 web application before upgrade to SharePoint 2013. In this post, I will explain what Information in required from SharePoint 2010 Farm during the SharePoint 2013 upgrade planning. The following information need to be capture f... [More]

SharePoint 2013 Sign in as different user option not available

As some of you noticed that in SharePoint 2013 welcome menu options “Sign in as Different User” is not available by default. You need this for various reasons and there is a work around to achieve it. SP 2010 default Welcome Menu   SP 2013 default Welcome menu (missing “Sig... [More]

SharePoint 2013 web application SSL binding

Imagine you have created two SharePoint 2013 web applications. They are hosted on same web front end server with default post 80.The web applications URL’s are something like web1.eblogin.com and web2.eblogin.com. You want to enable SSL on both web applications and have wildcard SSL certificat... [More]

Post upgrade Issue: SharePoint 2013 custom list "Quick edit" button is disabled

I am in middle of testing a SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 project upgrade. I have faced couple of issues, the one is that the List “Quick edit” button is disabled in SharePoint 2013 after upgrade content database from SharePoint 2010 Workaround I have just created a datasheet view... [More]

Upgrade Web application from SharePoint 2010 Farm to SharePoint 2013 Farm

The following steps will explain the upgrade process of SharePoint web application from SP 2010 to SP 2013 Farm Backup the Content database from SP2010 server using SQL management studio Move the database to SharePoint 2013 SQL server. Restore the content database on SharePoint 2013 SQL server us... [More]

Clean the SharePoint 2010 Environment before upgrade to SharePoint 2013

 It is highly recommended to do bit cleaning before you do an upgrade of SharePoint 2010 environment to SharePoint 2013.We need to make sure that environment is running and fully functioning, and should clean up all those contents which doesn’t required upgrade. You should consider the f... [More]