Thursday, October 22, 2015

SharePoint Alerts

 

Manage alerts
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-alerts-616d0941-25d5-4694-9db4-7546696dbe7b

How To Send Email Alerts From SharePoint 2013 To Distribution Lists
https://kb.intermedia.net/article/2446

Change SharePoint Alert mail body format
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6b6c2dc5-9d24-4fbc-a9e3-1cdba3a4f547/how-to-change-sharepoint-alert-mail-body-format?forum=sharepointgeneral


SharePoint Troubleshooting

SharePoint 2013 Alert Error: You do not have an email address
https://sharepointobservations.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/error-you-do-not-have-an-email-address

Troubleshooting FlowChart
http://sharepointalert.info/troubleshooting-sharepoint-alerts/

SharePoint 2013 Mail Setup

Configure outgoing email for a SharePoint 2013 farm
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263462.aspx

Configure incoming email for a SharePoint 2013 farm
https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/cc262947.aspx

O365 Troubleshooting

"You do not have an e-mail address" error when you create an alert in SharePoint Online
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2650135

Quick Tip - change the target email address for Alerts in SharePoint Online
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lystavlen/archive/2012/08/28/spo-alerts.aspx

Change Alert Email Address
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/sharepoint/en-US/77c9047e-e7e9-4ddf-a863-1c3d5782eae6/how-to-change-alert-email-address

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

User Profile Customization and Import Photos or Pictures

2013

SharePoint - Import a picture from AD for the user profile
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lukeb/archive/2013/01/04/sharepoint-import-a-picture-from-ad-for-the-user-profile.aspx

Using Exchange 2013 high-resolution photos from SharePoint Server 2013
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jenstr/archive/2012/08/17/using-exchange-2013-preview-high-resolution-photos-from-sharepoint-server-2013-preview.aspx

Options for SharePoint User Profile Properties and Photos
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briangre/archive/2014/03/11/options-for-sharepoint-user-profile-pictures.aspx

Troubleshooting Photos in User Profile Service Application (2013 too!)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lukeb/archive/2013/01/04/sharepoint-import-a-picture-from-ad-for-the-user-profile.aspx

2010

Import User Pictures from AD to SP2010
http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2013/01/import-user-pictures-from-active-directory-to-sharepoint-2010-mysite.html

Using BCS to Read BLOB Data
http://sharepointpromag.com/sharepoint/using-bcs-read-blob-data

Changing Pattern of User Display Names
http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/importing-sharepoint-user-profile-properties-using-bcs-net-connectivity-assembly/

Photo Management in SharePoint 2010
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spsocial/archive/2011/01/07/photo-management-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Troubleshooting Photos in User Profile Service Application
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lukeb/archive/2013/01/04/sharepoint-import-a-picture-from-ad-for-the-user-profile.aspx

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Loopback Check

There are two methods to work around this issue that is designed to protect your system from bad internal code or malicious viruses.  Introduced on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 to protect from what Microsoft calls to reflection attacks on your computer.  These are both well documented on TechNet.  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/896861
Typical syspton in Sharepoint is the windows security box to reappear after you type in a correct username and password.  To try again with no luck.  If you are getting this check the registry.

Creating a whitelist of good websites is the preferred method seen below.  However many SharePoint Admins just totally disabled the check in method 2 also noted below.
Method 1: Specify host names (Preferred method if NTLM authentication is desired)
To specify the host names that are mapped to the loopback address and can connect to Web sites on your computer, follow these steps:
  1. Set the DisableStrictNameChecking
    registry entry to 1. For more information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    281308 Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name
  2. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  3. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0

  4. Right-click MSV1_0, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
  5. Type BackConnectionHostNames, and then press ENTER.
  6. Right-click BackConnectionHostNames, and then click Modify.
  7. In the Value data box, type the host name or the host names for the sites that are on the local computer, and then click OK.
  8. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the IISAdmin service.

Method 2: Disable the loopback check (less-recommended method)
The second method is to disable the loopback check by setting the DisableLoopbackCheck registry key.
To set the DisableLoopbackCheck registry key, follow these steps:
  1. Set the DisableStrictNameChecking
    registry entry to 1. For more information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    281308 Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name
  2. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  3. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

  4. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
  5. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
  6. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
  7. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
  8. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.




Thursday, August 13, 2015

Using PowerShell to Find Crawled Properties

 

2010

Mapping Crawled Properties to Managed Properties can get real tough!

So using PowerShell …

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Note after running the above script notice that the xml contains the crawled properties!

For example ows_created_x0020_By =’CONTOSO\brianc’

So when mapping your crawled properties to the managed properties we can now get a true example.

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