SharePoint 1080: September 2014

Dienstag, 30. September 2014

Problem with images in SharePoint 2013 search

If you have any problem with images in SharePoint 2013 search, which currently drives me nuts, then have a look on these links:

http://stevemannspath.blogspot.de/2013/02/sharepoint-2013-image-preview-in-search.html

http://www.eliostruyf.com/part-1-create-first-search-refiner-control-template/

Thanks to the the authors!

Montag, 22. September 2014

Installation of Reporting Services - SharePoint - my tips

Hi there,

just had to install "Reporting Services - SharePoint" + "Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint Products" from the installation DVD of SQL Server 2012 SP1 to my SharePoint 2013 test environment.

Well, it took me a long time to have an finished installation. Here my tip:

1) Install first only "Reporting Services - SharePoint" and do the configuration in central adminstration; good link is http://www.techtask.com/featured/sql-2012-reporting-services-in-einer-sharepoint-2013-multi-server-farm/

2) start cmd in farm admin mode: runas /profile /user:domain\administrator_user cmd; good link is http://blogs.msmvps.com/brianmadsen/2008/09/03/sql-server-2008-reporting-services-add-in-for-moss-2007-installation-failure/

3) run installation with: rsSharePoint.msi SKIPCA=1

4) Be careful now, this was my personal problem: verify, that each web.config in every virtual directory do not have any comments inside! My personal thank goes to this link: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/e0097b00-09c3-4aa7-bfd2-8b8e20b6c69c/ssrs-2012-sp1-on-sharepoint-2013?forum=sqlreportingservices

5) finish installation from temp directory with: rsCustomAction.exe /i

6) Verify your installation with this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143773.aspx

Have fun with Reporting Services and SharePoint 2013!

Dienstag, 16. September 2014

Copy Site Collection from Live to Test in SharePoint 2013

I needed a customer site collection on my test environment. But we had different SharePoint versions (live PU and test SP1 of SPS2013). So we were not able to use PowerShell with Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite.

Solution was:

Backup Content Database of Site Collection
Copy Backup to test environment
Restore backup on test SQL server in new database
Set db owner to test farm administrator
use PowerShell: Mount-SPContentDatabase "MyDatabaseName" -WebApplication http://sitename:port -AssignNewDatabaseId
Open central administration, check if content database is assigned to web application
add a correct site collection administrator

Thanks to our SharePoint technical support team @S-PI!

Montag, 15. September 2014

Useful SharePoint links // and other stuff ... August 2014

I was searching for a way to organize my favorites. So I went back to Diigo, where I am able to add my favorites easily, organize them with tags and especially I am able to post them on any blog I have. At the bottom you find the link to all favorites.

August 2014

The rest of my favorite links are here.

Dienstag, 2. September 2014

Meeting 38 of SharePoint User Group Stuttgart / Germany

Meeting number 38 will take place for the SharePoint User Group Stuttgart / Germany on Thursday, 25th of September 2014.

Link (German): http://sharepointcommunity.de/groups/stuttgart/blog/archive/2014/09/02/38-treffen-der-sharapoint-user-group-stuttgart.aspx

Join us on XING (German): https://www.xing.com/events/38-treffen-spug-stuttgart-1444754