sharepoint 2013

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How to recover SharePoint_Config database from Suspect state

Recently my SharePoint sites and Central Administration site became not accessible. After some inspection I found that they cannot access SharePoint Config database. When I checked SharePoint_Config database by SQL Management Studio I saw that SharePoint_Config database is marked as Suspect. That is the first time that I saw a […]

Error 413 on Provider Hosted Apps

A few days ago we’ve got a strange “413” error while we’re testing our provider hosted application on our SP 2013 development environment. The description of the error is “Request Entity too large” which doesn’t make sense because as the description implies we know that this error can occur while […]

RePoint Infoscreen App

From now on I’m going to share useful applications for SharePoint 2013 on my blog. Here is the first one that I saw on Microsoft SharePoint’s facebook page. The RePoint InfoScreen module delivers an easy-to-use system to create good looking, responsive infoscreens that can be displayed on any internet browser. […]

InfoPath Error: Form Server Templates are not accessible

A strange error occurred in one of my projects. In my SharePoint 2013 environment, I’ve a web application running on port 80. When I need another web app, I gave it port 89. After giving a CNAME , I setup AAM and IIS bindings so that users can access my web app by writing http://xxx.com.tr instead of […]

Change “SharePoint” text in the top bar

By default, on the top left of each SharePoint 2013 site there is a “SharePoint” text. This can be replaced by overriding a delegate control called “SuiteBarBrandingDelegate“. But if you simply want to change the text without writing any code, using 3 line PowerShell script is the easiest way. $webApp […]

Save SharePoint 2013 Publishing Site as Template

Microsoft is restricted saving SharePoint 2013 Publishing sites as templates. Here is the information you can find on Microsoft Support pages (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2492356) SharePoint does not support Save Site as Template option with the Publishing features turned on. The supported method to create templates for publishing sites is to use a site definition template and […]

PowerShell: Changing the Distributed Cache Service Managed Account

Changing managed account used for “Distributed Cache Service” is one of the things that cannot be done using the SharePoint Central Administrator. So as central admin advises you navigate to Security -> General Security -> Configure Service Accounts, find the “Distributed Cache Service” and select another managed account, it gives […]

SharePoint 2013 Certification Exams

Since Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2013 RTM, SharePoint community is heavily using it and trying to learn the new features. To test your SharePoint 2013 skills and get more job opportunities in your career you may think to take Microsoft certification exams. As usual Microsoft is working on the new certification paths […]

Learning Roadmaps for SharePoint 2013

Learning roadmap articles for SharePoint 2013 have been published recently at TechNet. There are several articles and documents for different knowledge and experience levels. Learning roadmap is defined as follows: A Learning Roadmap steps new-to-technology or experienced IT Pros through the set of published text or multimedia resources to build […]

SharePoint Balsamiq Mockups

If you’re intended to prototype your SharePoint screens in your projects, you can use Balsamiq tool for drawing mock-up screens. Balsamiq is very useful wire-framing tool which provides lots of templates for drawing mock-up screens. You can find lots of templates from myBalsamiq site. For SharePoint 2013, James Sturges has prepared a mock-up template. So you can easily prepare wire-frame of a SharePoint […]