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SharePoint 2013 Hosting UK – HostForLIFE.eu :: Changing SharePoint Admin Account Password
Mar 10th
The scenario I’m blogging today is common for both SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2013 Hosting. Also you can find so many blog posts written about changing SharePoint admin account password or changing SharePoint Service account password. But what if you use the same admin user in two farms in two different geographical locations. Assume, we have two farms, one in US and another in Singapore two directory servers enabled with AD Sync. Your requirement is to change the password of the SharePoint Setup admin (SP_Admin) which is a managed user that has been used both in US farm and the farm in Singapore to setup SharePoint.
First you need to log in to one of the farms, go to central admin > Security > Config Managed Accounts.
There you select the user, edit the settings and change the password of the user. Simple as that. But what about the other farm? Same process won’t work as you have already changed the password of the same user.
Log in to the second farm, fire up SharePoint PowerShell window with admin privileges.
Type the cmdlet given below.
Set-SPManagedAccount -UseExistingPassword -Identity YourDomain\SP_Admin
This will save your day. But let’s look into what goes behind.
SharePoint saves all Managed user passwords in config database. So when we change it in the first farm it saves the new password in the config database. But now considering the second farm, it still have the old password saved in the database. If you try to add a new password, SharePoint will compare the existing saved password with the current password (which we changed in the first farm) of the user and will not allow you to change the password from the second server.
So the easiest option available is to ask SharePoint to save and use the existing password of the user.
SharePoint 2013 Hosting Netherlands – HostForLIFE.eu :: Tips: Migration to SharePoint 2013
Mar 5th
In the recent times, with Microsoft launching SharePoint 2013, a large number of businesses are considering migration to this new edition to enhance their business processes. In fact, this new version of SharePoint is anticipated to revolutionize the way in which companies are building links amongst their knowledge workers, business processes as well as business-related content worldwide. This platform includes novel features such as enhanced document management capabilities with respect to sharing and contributing content, enhanced social features along with a renewed search experience. SharePoint 2013 is speedily positioning itself as one of the much sought after technology for the introduction of crucial organizational initiatives in the areas of social collaboration, enterprise content management and web content management.
The advanced features of Sharepoint make it vital for organizations to take certain points into consideration prior to adopting this latest platform. Let us discuss some of the guidelines that should be followed in order to achieve effective migration to SharePoint 2013.
1. Take care of hardware requirements: In case of SharePoint 2013 servers, minimum of 8 GB RAM and four 64-bit cores is needed for small environments while medium environments require 16 GB RAM. For every server operating in SharePoint 2013, location within a single data center is essential.
2. Operating system requisites: The ideal operating system incorporates 64-bit edition, R2 SP1 Windows Server 2008. The 2012 Windows Server operating system can also be utilized. You must consider migration to 64-bit servers before any other upgrade or migration.
3. Decide upon the destination before starting off: Doing this gives you a clear-cut idea of where you are heading to and this allows you to go for proper channelization of the resources at hand. For example, if you are using SQL 2012, use Windows 2012 along with an Office Web Application Server.
4. Divide current customizations into categories: It is advisable to categorize the customizations into three categories. The first category constitutes items such as custom authentication provider that would stop the project. You need to have solutions for this, or else the migration would not be a success. The second category comprises items that would not put a halt to the project but are required to be completed. It is good to address them once the migration is completed. Items that need to be eliminated make up the third category.
5. Realize environmental alterations: When you are deciding to go for Windows 2012, the environmental change that takes place needs to be taken into consideration. The SMTP server role has been deprecated by Windows 2012 and depending on the information, decision needs to be taken as to whether to use a more intricate configuration or go for installation of the deprecated feature.
6. Get every migration step scripted: This task involves restructuring site hierarchy, mounting content databases.
7. Conduct dry runs: While performing dry runs, you must follow a sequential guide. Through the dry runs, it is quite convenient to identify the disk space and timing requirements.
8. Go for proper space and time planning: Once the disk space and the upgrade time required are identified depending upon the dry runs, you can take necessary action. For instance, by adjusting the SQL server memory, the time for mounting as well as upgrading SharePoint can be decreased.
9. Follow dry runs with test: The only thing that separates a live run from a dry run is that the data is not updated, hence the end result should simulate the live migration. Taking this into account, through utilization of an alternate access mapping, it can be opened up to selected end users for testing, in order to validate the overall usability and the basic functionality.
10. Set up destination environment: It is advisable to configure and prepare to the maximum extent prior to migration. Once the configuration of the environment is done, the same will ensure smoother migration.
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Feb 28th
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Sharepoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE.eu :: Create a Blog with SharePoint 2013
Feb 27th
This guide will show you how to create a blog in SharePoint 2013. This topic contains only brief information about Sharepoint 2013 Hosting, if you want to be more familiar with Sharepoint 2013 , you should try HostForLife.eu.
1) First, You must Log into SharePoint.
2) In the Quick Launch bar, click on Site Contents.
3) Click on new subsite.
4) Fill in the details of your new subsite the same way you would for a new site: title, description, URL, language and template.
Note: You may wonder where all the templates went between SharePoint 2010 and 2013.
5) If you wish to have the same user and content permissions as the parent site, click the Use same permissions as parent site radio button. If you wish this subsite to have different permissions than other parts of your site, click on Use unique permissions.
Determine if this subsite will show up in the Quick Launch bar and top link bar of the parent site by selecting Yes or No.
Choose to have the parent site top link bar as this subsite’s top link bar by clicking on Yes, otherwise click on No.
6) Finnaly, your new blog site will be successfully created.
European HostForLIFE.eu Proudly Launches Windows Server 2012 R2 Hosting
Feb 17th
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Hosting – HostForLIFE.eu :: Install SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2
Feb 10th
If you are reading this post, most probably you have difficulties to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2. According to the official Microsoft Statement, this is not supported until release of Service Pack 1 for SP2013. However, if you don’t want to wait and also already love advantages of R2, within this post I will share my successful experience installing SP2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2.
1. Login to your R2 server as Administrator. You can as well perform this step under the Farm Administrator account, which should be also local administrator on the server. Start Power Shell as Administrator and execute following statements:
Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,NET-WCF-TCP-Activation45,NET-WCF-Pipe-Activation45 -Source D:\Sources\sxs
Add-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Features,Web-Server,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-App-Dev,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Net-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Security,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Mgmt-Compat,Web-Metabase,Application-Server,AS-Web-Support,AS-TCP-Port-Sharing,AS-WAS-Support, AS-HTTP-Activation,AS-TCP-Activation,AS-Named-Pipes,AS-Net-Framework,WAS,WAS-Process-Model,WAS-NET-Environment,WAS-Config-APIs,Web-Lgcy-Scripting,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation,Xps-Viewer -Source D:\Sources\sxs
Note: D:\ is your Windows installation media.
2. Download all prerequisites from the Internet and save it on local disk of the server, e.g. C:\SP2013Prereq:
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client
Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
Windows Identity Extensions
Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405)
Windows Server AppFabric
CU 1 for AppFabric 1.1 (KB2671763)
3. Install all prerequisites directly from the prerequisites folder in the download sequence, EXCEPT the last two (AppFabric and CU 1 for AppFabric).
4. AppFabric requires special configuration, therefore installing it usual way is not be enough for SharePoint. Install it using following statement from command line:
WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe /i CacheClient","CachingService","CacheAdmin /gac
Note: The syntax with quotas is correct, it separates commas, not the components.
5. Install AppFabric1.1-RTM-KB2671763-x64-ENU
6. Restart your server
Congratulations! Now you will be able to start SharePoint 2013 installer directly and to continue with SharePoint 2013 installation and configuration.
SharePoint Hosting – HostForLIFE.eu :: Configure SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application
Feb 5th
In this article we will show how to create search service application in SharePoint. From central administration home page click on manage service applications. Click new icon form ribbon bar and click on “search service application”
From the opened screen enter the name for search service application , choose search service account “service account that we used for configure all services” , choose or create a new application pool that will used by search admin web service also do the same step for application Pool for Search Query and Site Settings Web Service then click OK.
Go to SharePoint Central Administration, and then select Application Management.
Then select Manage service applications.
Select search service application and then click manage on the ribbon on the top.
In the left hand bar click content source.
Then click on the down arrow next to the local SharePoint sites and select start full crawl.
Wait until the status becomes Idle.
European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: How To SPMetal in Sharepoint 2013
Dec 20th
What is SPMetal?
SPMetal is a command-line tool that generates entity classes, which provide an object-oriented interface to the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation content databases. These classes are primarily used in LINQ to SharePoint queries; but they are also used to add, delete, and change list items with concurrency conflict resolution. Finally, they can be used as an alternative to the regular SharePoint Foundation object model for referencing content.
How to Use SPMetal?
To generate the entity class using SPMetal:
Step 1
Go to the path
C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN
Open command Window here:
Step 2
Run the command here:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN>Spmetal.exe /web: http://Your Site/ /code: [File location to save]/Myentitycontext.cs
Different Command Line Options
Using in Visual Studio
When you are creating an application using this entity class, you need to add the reference Microsoft.Sharepoint.LINQ. In code behind of Webpart, add the following namespaces:
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
Insert a value to “Country” List
Create a list in SharePoint and insert a value through VS2012 console application:
using (MyentitycontextDataContext myEntity = new MyentitycontextDataContext(“http://sptest:1001″))
{
CountryItem myCountry = new CountryItem();
myCountry.Title = “My Country1″;
myCountry.CountryName = “USA”;
myEntity.Country.InsertOnSubmit(myCountry);
myEntity.SubmitChanges();
}
Now refresh the site the value is inserted:
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Dec 17th
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European HostForLIFE.eu Proudly Launches Entity Framework 6 with FREE Trial Hosting
Dec 11th
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Entity Framework 6 (EF6) is an object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write.
Entity Framework is now available and there are top features to consider in this minor release:
Features that come for free. These are capabilities that are part of the core. You don’t even have to know they’re there to benefit from them, much less learn any new coding.
Level-setting features. A major enhancement is that Code First now supports mapping to Stored Procedures, something that has been supported by models created in the designer.
Another change is more interesting. With EF6, the EF APIs have been extracted from the .NET Framework; they’re now completely encapsulated in the NuGet package.
EF Designer in this category. It has been moved out of Visual Studio as of the 2013 edition, and instead provided as an extension to Visual Studio.
Ninja features. Support for asynchronous queries and saves, the return of custom Code First conventions, more extensibility using the new DbConfiguration type, support for mocking in unit tests, configurable retries on spotty connections, and even more.
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