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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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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.
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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.
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European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: How to Configure Current Navigation in SharePoint 2013
Dec 10th
Configuring current navigation settings for each SharePoint site is similar to global navigation. You have the same options to automatically show pages and subsites in SharePoint.
You have these options to determine what items appear in the site’s current navigation:
- Display the Same Navigation Items as the Parent Site: This option displays the current navigation items using the settings of the parent site.
- Managed Navigation: This option enables you to manage navigation using a set of terms you define called Managed Metadata. When you select this option, your site will show sites and subsites based on the terms you have defined and not the subsites and pages in the site. When you select the Managed Navigation option, the option to show subsites and pages disappears.
- Structural Navigation: This option gives you the choice to display subsites and pages below the current site.
Remember : Choosing the Show Pages and Show Subsites options in the Global Navigation section makes navigation items show for pages and subsites in the top navigation. Choosing the Show Pages and Show Subsites option in the Current Navigation section shows the navigational links in the left navigation.
European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Find Performance Issue on SharePoint 2013
Nov 25th
Background
SharePoint 2013 has now as designed the architecture of FAST Search. This is one of the important reasons why more and more corporates are now switching to SharePoint 2013 and not to other collaboration platform’s.
It sound perfect to have a SharePoint Server 2013 with fast; but if you’re on a development environment with limited hardware resources, the chance exists that you’re Virtual Machine became too slow or even worst it will not respond anymore and the only way is reboot your server.
I have a SharePoint Farm installed on my laptop and only 2 Service Applications has been configured:
- Search Service Application
- Managed Metadata Service Application
Nobody is using or connected to the SharePoint Farm but the RAM has almost reached the Maximum
As you can see “Noderunner.exe” (Microsoft SharePoint Search Component) is itself consuming a lot of memory and the same Process is running multiple times. Noderunner.exe is the new executable of search service on SharePoint 2013. This process can’t turn it off because Search is one of essential service application in SharePoint 2013, and it is integrated in many features.
Find Problem
Let’s kill manually these services and see if my SharePoint site is still answering. Select your process and hit “End Process Tree”. This will kill the Process and all children that are attached to him.
As I’m on my Development machine I’m doing the same operation on all the Processes.
And Strike! Everything related to the Search (Content Search, Web Part …) is broken. I can browse to my Website but can’t execute anything related to the Search Service Application. As you can see this isn’t the best approach to gain performance.
Test
It’s really annoying because the Search Service Application shouldn’t not cause so much damage on our SharePoint Farm.
On SharePoint 2010 I knew we could configure the Search Service Performance Level with powerhsell.
Powershell Cmdlet:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchService | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService –PerformanceLevel “PartlyReduced”
Performance Level Explained:
- Reduced: Total number of threads = number of processors, Max Threads/host = number of processors
- PartlyReduced: Total number of threads = 4 times the number of processors , Max Threads/host = 16 times the number of processors
- Maximum: Total number of threads = 4 times the number of processors , Max Threads/host = 16 times the number of processors (threads are created at HIGH priority)
And in fact on SharePoint 2013 it’s the same scenario. After searching a while I found on TechNet this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff608126.aspx who actually confirms my theory.
Open Powershell with a Domain Account who has Farm Administrator Rights and hit Get-SPEnterpriseSearchService and as imagined the PerformanceLevel is set up to Maximum.
To change this to reduced or partly reduced hit Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel Reduced and restart the SharePoint Search if your Virtual machine is still answering. After this manipulation your SharePoint Server will be able to breathe and you can continue to work.
Test: Not tested way
You can also say that you want to have the Maximum Performance Level and refuse to change it to reduced.
There is a Config file for NodeRunner.exe’s configuration file that can limit RAM usage of a single process to specific value in megabytes.
You can find it under :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Search\Runtime\1.0\noderunner.exe.config.
The configuration setting is called memoryLimitMegabytes and the default value is 0 (I guess unlimited). You can hit the value you want, save the file and restart your Search Service.
