Today, I was looking into a way of getting the assemblies / dlls used by the SharePoint Online environment and surprisingly I found it that any user can download the assemblies / dlls from any of the O365 / SharePoint online environment without authentication. ex: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/_vti_bin/microsoft.sharepoint.dll I tried the same in our SharePoint online environment and

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O365 – SharePoint Online – Downloading assemblies

There are several issues that can happen while migrating SharePoint from one version to another. Here is our tip on how to troubleshoot an issue with calling asmx web service in SharePoint 2010 through jQuery. After migration of a SharePoint 2007 application to SharePoint 2010 our jQuery scripts that communicate with ASMX web services suddenly

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Troubleshooting an Issue With Calling an ASMX Web Service in SharePoint 2010 through jQuery

Scenario: Display a aggregated calendar view from all the calendar list in a single page. Reference: JQuery – Full Calendar plugin I am going to use the Jquery, Full Calendar plugin, Content editor webpart to demonstrate how to display the Single aggregated calendar using the SharePoint search result (Javascript – CSOM). Steps: Add a Content Editor

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O365 – SharePoint 2013 – Search based Calendar aggregation – Single Calendar view – from different sites

There are few ways to get FARM server where SharePoint Central Administration site is hosted. Using PowerShell cmdLets:- 1- Get-spwebapplication -includecentraladministration | where {$_.DisplayName -match “SharePoint Central Administration*”} | select DisplayName,Url The above cmdLet is good while you are trying to retrieve url of the CA either it is hosted on same machine or on different one (during n-tier farm architecture) But suppose, I

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Get SharePoint Central Administration site url

I already have wrote about the design of the Document Management using SharePoint in my previous post. You can see the links below. Now I will go through the steps of how to create Document Center and Record Center and how they will be connected. Design: http://mysplist.blogspot.com/2014/03/sharepoint-2013-document-management.html Implementation: Go to SharePoint Central Administration and create a separate Web Application and

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SharePoint 2013 – Document Management – II

In this post I will explain how a Document Management System using SharePoint 2013 can be designed for an Enterprise. I had a requirement at my work for designing a Document Management using SharePoint 2013 and here is my proposed design. Ref: http://mysplist.blogspot.com/2014/03/sharepoint-2013-document-management.html Background: Document Center Document Center site is designed to managed an enterprise’s live

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SharePoint 2013 – Document Management

Hi fellow SharePointers, In my time being a SharePoint administrator, I have wondered if it was possible to create personal sites for users on the fly using PowerShell. This could be for any reason. Here is the TechNet gallery link: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Create-personal-for-4a70e4ad If you have any questions, or improvement recommendations, please let me know!

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Create a personal site for a specific user using PowerShell