Microsoft has now released the first round of patches for SharePoint 2013 Foundation and Server. Click here for the IT Pro Updates area.
Starting with March of 2013.
Archive for Tony Maddin
Office365 Password Character
While I was helping out a co-worker; we could not get Lync to properly work on the desktop. So during the course of troubleshooting; we reset the password for the Office365 account.
After the password reset, with a different symbol, the Lync client was now happy.
While looking at the original password; it had a \ in the password.
It appears you can change your password in Office365 with a \ symbol. But the Lync client will not log in with a \ symbol in the password string.
Summary: It appears you cannot have the \ symbol in your password if you plan on using Lync with Office365.
Forms Based Authentication SharePoint 2013 Foundation can be done
After further investigation, it was found on TechNet’s website for SharePoint 2013 (as of March 8, 2013) that forms based authentication can be done in SharePoint 2013.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806890.aspx
However, I did find Forms Based Applications is not supported within SharePoint 2013.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819267.aspx#bkmk_FeaturesOnPremise
I misread the feature list as Forms Based Authentication.
Special thank you to Mike Smith, MCT/SharePoint MVP, for his further research.
Please adhere to Microsoft’s license agreement with regard proper server license that supports your SharePoint 2013 Foundation platform.
Trello – Fantastic, free web-based project management tool
A former colleague, Jason Coffey (click here to view his LinkedIn profile), showed me a great, free project management tool set called Trello. Trello has a fresh approach to organizing tasks in a visual manner so you can quickly put your arms around a project.
The company has stated the tool set will always be free. So I have assurance that I can use it without the fear that I may get the hammer of going pay for use route with other great products I have used in the past.
They have a great demo/tutorial that I highly encourage you to look at to understand this new concept. But once you start building your project plan; you will understand why this tool set is popular. It’s easy. You can visually see and understand the stages of tasks in the entire project. I love it!
www.trello.com - It’s now listed under my RESOURCES section.
FIX for Hyper-V Windows 8 Error “Failed while adding virtual Ethernet switch connections”
As I am building my Windows 8 – Hyper V environment to support my various SharePoint servers, I ran into an issue while creating an External switch in my Hyper-V Switch Manager. I ran into an issue while creating an External Switch and attaching it to my WiFi adapter on my laptop.
**Please note: I take no responsiblity for your computer/laptop if it breaks. I did this scenario on my work laptop to support my project work. Please follow my steps with caution.
Failed while adding virtual Ethernet switch connections.
So here was my work around:
- Go to Control Panel
- Go to Hardware and Sound
- Go to Device Manager (Under Devices and Printers Tab) – Run as Administrator
- Go to Network Adapters – Look for your WiFi adapter/device.
- Next, right click on it and click uninstall. (Keep the driver.)
- Next, right click on Network Adapters – Click SCAN FOR CHANGES
(Your WiFi adapter should reappear.)
Reboot your machine.
Next, when I rebooted my laptop; I had to resupply the WiFi password for my connection. I got back on the network.
Then when I create the External Network Switch; I did not receive an error.
If you want to follow a great guide on how to build a SharePoint Farm on Windows 8, please go to my good friend’s blog, SharePoint Ryan!
http://sharepointryan.com/2013/01/23/creating-an-awesome-development-environment-on-windows-8/
My current activity in the HeartLand Information Technology Community
What a great year! I have been very active in the region getting to watch/learn from fellow professionals in my industry. I seen various topics such as systems administration, development, database administration, networking engineering, and proven project management.
I have gotten to meet first hand with a lot of people that I have read about on the Internet or read their published books. The social aspect of the these types of events are what I cherish the most.
Below is my list of past presentation schedules:
[box type="info"]Presenter: November 3, 2011 – Cincy SPUG, Cincinnati, Ohio – Topic: SPDiag 3.0 toolset and all the possible uses with it.
Presenter: October 29, 2011 – SharePoint Saturday, Cincinnati, Ohio – Topic: How to Landscape, Baseline, and Performance Tune a SharePoint 2010 environment.
Presenter: October 6, 2011 – DANPA, , Dayton, Ohio – Topic: SharePoint 2010 Overview – How small business can leverage the SharePoint 2010 platform to meet small business needs.
Presenter: August 20, 2011 – SharePoint Saturday, Columbus, Ohio – Topic: SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 3.0 in action.
Presenter, January 11, 2011 – Dayton SharePoint User Group – Topic: Using PowerShell to create a SharePoint environment.
Presenter, June 3, 2010 Cincinnati SharePoint User Group. Topic: SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Proven Tests[/box]
I cannot wait for the 2012 year to meet new IT professionals in the community and continue hanging out with the ones I have now established with in these groups.
Cincy SPUG Presentation – November 3, 2011
Cincinnati SPUG Nov 2011 Tony Maddin
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SP 2010 admin tool to add to your toolbox
While working on a client project, I was refreshing SharePoint 2010 environments to support our various QA and Development teams.
I implemented the SharePoint 2010 content hub for this project. While detaching/attaching content databases to the staging environment; the Metadata Term Store data did not transfer.
This term set was a key feature in our project.
I searched the internet and came across this tool on CodePlex. This tool was easy to use and fixed my issue.
I was able to export the term set from the source SharePoint 2010 farm. Then transfer the CSV file to the destination. Installed the tool again and the term set uploaded with no issues.
[box type="info"]This is a must have tool to add to your Admin toolbox.
The tool is called the termsetimorter.exe but it also exports the term set as well.
SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 Finally Released!
Finally, finally, and finally! SharePoint 2010 SP1 has now been officially released to the public. Why does this excite me? You know the length and process of getting SharePoint systems up-t0-speed with patches? Believe me; they take time. The good news is that all the cumulative updates are now including so now I can clear off 2.5 gigabytes of drive space to keep the other patches around.
But please review these white papers located in the list below. There is a required SQL Server patch associated to the Service Pack.
