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Disable User filtering in SharePoint 2010

Remove Disabled User from People Picker As we know experience always better then theory but good combination is experience plus theory of relative experience. This combination enhances your knowledge. Today, we have a critical reporting issue from client that is “ Employee has left organization but Employee is still in People Picker” . This issue is related to User profile Synchronization. To overcome this issue we need to creating User profile Synchronization Exclusion Filters using the Active Directory Attribute ”userAccountControl”. Exclusion filter has an advantage of reducing the amount of “Junk” in the profile database and also decrease the time taken to perform synchronization. The userAccountControl attribute is used to store the account options for an AD user object. These options include the status of the account (e.g. disabled, or locked out). Each option is a property flag. These flags are cumulative and thus there is only ever one value for userAccou...

Error In Search Service Application

Error In Search Service Application- Error1 - Service is not able to connect with administrator component. Error2 - Default Crawling Account has not proper permissions like read permission. Error3 - Crawling Related errors. Error4- Stuck on starting. Error5- Search Service is  not started Common Step to Resolve 1-  Use power shell command to check status and stop and start. 2-  In Services.msc  start search service. 3-  Check Permission of your default crawler account. 4-  Reset Your Time Service 5-  Reset IIS 6-  App Pool Restart 7- Application Server Admin Service is enabled or not check by power shell command. Note- Search service application uses SQL server Native client to working with Database. This native client can be a cause for Admin Component disconnection with Database. you can find error by making UDL file and make a connection with your database with this UDL file. if UDL file is able to make connection with...

Default Web Services in SharePoint

By default, SharePoint has multiple web services that are given below. http://ServerName:99999/_vti_adm/Admin.asmx – used for creating and deleting sites, change 99999 with your administrative port number http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Alerts.asmx – used for working with alerts http://ServerName/_vti_bin/DspSts.asmx – used for retrieving schemas and data http://ServerName/_vti_bin/DWS.asmx – used for working with Document Workspaces http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Forms.asmx – used for working with user interface forms http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Imaging.asmx – used for working with picture libraries http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx – used for working with lists http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Meetings.asmx – used for working with Meeting Workspaces http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Permissions.asmx – used for working with SharePoint Services security http://ServerName/_vti_bin/SiteData.asmx – used by Windows SharePoint Portal ServerName http://ServerName/_vti_bin/Sites.asmx – used to ret...

Fetch Data From Multiple SharePoint Lists

                                                Fetch Data From Multiple SharePoint Lists Today, we have a very interesting Topic  that is "Fetch Data From Multiple SharePoint Lists" to discussion.  there are many ideas by which it can be happened. here we have three methods which are following- 1- By using CQWP- this is totally depends on search service application. it can be implemented by SharePoint administrator by using User interface.  you only needed a query to fetch data from search. here search service application is playing a important role so it also has an impact on your CQWP which is added in web part zone on .aspx page. 2- By using Linked Data Source- This can be done by using SharePoint Designer. Linked data source is configured for multiple SharePoint lists through SharePoint designer. after Configuration of linked data source, Jus...

Calendar Overlay Issue

Error - ' Unable to find  specified web in the given URL' Above given Error Message is related to SharePoint Calendar. To resolve this problem, SharePoint Calendar Overlay functionality need to be understand. SharePoint  Calendar Overlay works well for site collections in the same web application, but not for across web application. Steps for Resolve this Error- 1- Verify the Calendar Overlay Setting and clicking on Calendar Overlay button in calendar ribbon. 2- Check your URL in web URl field. This is same as defined in AAM. click on resolve. 3- Check List and List view.  Verify that your url is resolved,  Automatically all fields will be filled. List view field value will be your calendar name. 4- Click on save. Now check your calendar and your problem will be resolved. Note-  Please check out your page on which calendar is rendered before doing Troubleshooting. Thanks........

IMPORTANT INTERNAL FIELD NAME OF SHAREPOINT

       -------------IMPORTANT INTERNAL FIELD NAME OF SHAREPOINT ----------------- SharePoint List column has internal field name. Display name can be changed but internal field name can not be changed after creating the field.  When PowerShell or PnP Scripts is written for the automate the business process in SharePoint, List of below given field are used to write the queries and fetch the data. Document Library Fields:           Display Name                 Internal Name Name                                  FileLeafRef Name                                  LinkFilenameNoMenu Name                                  LinkFilename Name ...

MetaData Navigation

Managed MetaData In SharePoint  In this blog, we are going to discuss Some issues related to Managed Metadata,Terminology etc. And some questions like  How can attached a url with term and what is limitation with of metadata navigation.Let's start.  Basically Metadata service provides a central location to store Metadata. Meta data is defined as "Data about Data". Metadata can be used across site collection and web application through Content type. Managed Metadata has some key terminology like Term Set, Term, Group etc. Issue- Navigation option is not in Look and feel section in site settings.  Solution-   This is because the publishing feature is not enabled for the site. In order for navigation to appear, we have to enable the SharePoint Server publishing feature from Site Settings -> Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection Features ->SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure. Issue- Managed Metadata is not...

Improve Performance of SharePoint Site and SharePoint Server

By using below given ideas we can improve SharePoint Server and Site Performance. Performance of SharePoint server  is depend on multiple technologies like IIS and SQL Database server. To improve performance command methods are following- Minimize Page Size - If page size is minimum then it will take less time to be render the information. Number of Web Part on Home Page - In SharePoint Site, Each page consists of Web Part . If  number of Web Part is less, Home page will  take less time to be loaded. Image and Video Size- If Site has multiple images on a page and video. it's impact the performance. Therefore use the limit number of image and video on page. IIS Compression - Compression reduces the size of page, files like image and video. there are two type of IIS Compression  in which one is static compression and second is dynamic compression. Network Bandwidth - Network bandwidth is also one of the cause for the slowness on site. some time network is slow due t...

Targeting Audience with SharePoint

   Target Audience with SharePoint   Targeting audience in SharePoint Server is key functionality to manage the information access to specific set of employees on SharePoint site pages. In interview common question is"  how can handled a set of people with same interest I mean group of people which are from Same departments like Sale, HR, Management etc. in an Organization ". Lets Start answering for this question. Basically SharePoint has multiple ways to handle Target Audience for different type of content. which are following- 1- Set Target Audience for a Web Part-  This is very common way to handle Target Incidence. this used by SharePoint Administrator. Target audience is supported by few Out of Box Web Parts like Content editor. To set the audience, First move page in edit mode then edit the Content editor Web Part. set the audience name in audience field. 2- Display  SharePoint List  and Library items  in Webpart  to Targ...