For those of you who had the "pleasure" (okay, slight sarcasm there) of watching me in the SharePoint Ignite materials talk about distributed cache, you may recall that our guidance at the time SharePoint 2013 shipped was that you should not patch AppFabric on SharePoint servers independently – meaning that if it needed patching the…
Tag: SharePoint 2013
Another BCS Hybrid Tip – Fixing "The Type name for the Secure Store provider is not valid" Error
Here's another error that are actually pretty likely to see if you are setting up BCS hybrid. When you configure your BCS connection in o365 to connect to your on premises data source, one of the things you need to configure is the security that's going to be used to make the call into your…
Oh No – Your BCS Model Doesn't Show Up When You Create a Content Source For BDC
First let me point out that I gratuitously co-mingled the terms "BCS" and "BDC" in the title because I honestly never know what to call this anymore (I've heard the marketing language before but it just ain't stickin'). So…today's post is something that I thought I had added to the blog before, but searching the…
Setting Up BCS Hybrid Features End to End In SharePoint 2013
For those of you who will be attending SharePoint Conference 2014 (www.sharepointconference.com), I'm going to be teaching a half-day course after the three main days with Bill Baer and some other folks on SharePoint Hybrid features. This is firming up to be a pretty good session from a presenter standpoint, because we'll have folks from…
You Get More Results in the Query Builder for a Web Part Than When the Web Part is Rendered on the Page in SharePoint 2013
I’ve had this issue happen to me a while back and then I saw two other people have the same problem in the last couple of weeks so I decided to do a quick post on this. The scenario usually manifests itself something like this: you are working on some kind of custom search application…
Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Features
< p>This is a topic that’s generated a lot of interest over the last couple of months and I’m happy to report that I was recently able to utilize the new Web Application Proxy (WAP) features of Windows Server 2012 R2 to act as a reverse proxy for the SharePoint 2013 hybrid features. Specifically I…
Debugging SharePoint Apps That Are Hosted In Windows Azure Web Sites
Today, I'm going to be the lazy human I'm so frequently accused of being by my somewhat faithful dog Shasta, and bring together two posts written by two other folks into one uber "ain't it cool how this all works together post" by me. Here are the two concepts we're combining today: Publishing a provider-hosted…
Getting the Current User Identity in a Low Trust App in SharePoint 2013
Today's post comes primarily because it's a common question, but not because it's a particularly brilliant answer; maybe just a bit unexpected. If you followed the some of the differences between low trust and high trust apps in SharePoint, you will know that in a low trust app, SharePoint knows who the user is, versus…
Creating a Yammer-Centric Security Setup for SharePoint 2013
Okay, I’m going to preface everything in this post by saying what I’m going to be describing is not what you would consider the most secure SharePoint web application in the world. If you are working with sensitive content then this is probably (but not absolutely) NOT the best solution for you. However, if you…
Architecture Design Recommendation for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Search Features
The SharePoint 2013 hybrid capabilities are intended to let users in Office 365 access and search across certain content from an on premises SharePoint farm. By design, current hybrid features cannot be configured to simultaneously allow users outside a corporate network to access the on premises farm, and to also allow on premises content to…