SharePoint 2013: Configure Search Application Topology

You can configure your Search Application Topology through your servers and manage all its parts separately, or (like in my case) you only need to configure it all in one server. Using PowerShell I've only need to run this following commands:1. Get the Search Service Instance of my server into a variable (The second command …

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SharePoint 2013: Stop Crawls using PowerShell

Run this Script in PowerShell to stop all your Crawls: Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | ForEach-Object {$_.StopCrawl()} You could also start full Crawls on every Content Source changing the StopCrawl command like this: Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | ForEach-Object {$_.StartFullCrawl()}

Edit SharePoint Page By URL

If we couldn't acces to the menu item "Edit Page" for any reason and we want to edit that page (e.g. to remove some webpart that blocks our page) we've to add one parameter at the end: contents=1 Then, the URL would be like this: http://misyte.com/mysubsite/Pages/default.aspx?contents=1 By dong this we'll access to a standard SharePoint …

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Retrieve User Profile Properties using Client Object Model in SharePoint 2013

I've found an interesting link about how to retrieve some properties of user profiles in SharePoint 2013 by using its client object model, like this: const string serverUrl = "http://serverName/"; const string targetUser = "domainName\userName"; ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(serverUrl); PeopleManager peopleManager = new PeopleManager(clientContext); string[] profilePropertyNames = new string[] { "PreferredName", "Department", "Title" }; …

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Restart Distributed Cache Service

If you have a server dedicated to the Distributed Cache of SharePoint, its memory can increase until 100% because of the DistributedCache process. If you look at the Task Manager you can see if that happens: In order to solve this, you’ve to restart the service through the SharePoint Central Administration following this steps: 1. …

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SharePoint 2013 + Visual Studio 2012: File «.g.cs» dissapeared

Sometimes, when you're developing a visual web part, the designer file (with .g.cs extension) dissapears in front of your eyes. After finding nothing in the internet, we've just discovered why it is happening: You've to add the "Site URL" property in the Project properties. That's beacuse it is a web part for sharepoint, and Visual …

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How To: Obtain Workflow Trace in SharePoint

You can get a LOG file with your workflow trace following this steps:1. Edit web.config.2. Insert the following code just BEFORE <appSettings> (always AFTER </System.Workflow.ComponentModel.WorkflowCompiler>): <system.diagnostics> <sources> <source name="System.Workflow.Runtime" > <listeners> <add name = "System.Workflow"/> </listeners> </source> <source name="System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting"> <listeners> <add name="System.Workflow"/> </listeners> </source> <source name="System.Workflow.Activities"> <listeners> <add name="System.Workflow"/> </listeners> </source> </sources> <sharedListeners> <add name="System.Workflow" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="C:MyWorkflowTrace.log" …

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Allow Users To Create New Terms in SharePoint’s Taxonomy Term Store

If you go to the Term Store Management you can add new term sets in the taxonomy term store whenever you want. However, maybe you want to allow users to create new term sets, so you've to do this: 1. Go to the Term Store Management. 2. Select the Term Set that you want. 3. …

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