I was looking into the option of auto deploying an custom developed app at the time of creating a site in O365 / SP2013 environment. Scenario: 1. Custom app (MVC – Azure hosted) – Need to deploy it automatically so that it can customise the site created using a site template. (i.e. attaches the remote

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Office 365 – SharePoint 2013 – Autoinstall an app at the time of creating a subsite – LoadAndInstallApp

In our University environment we decided to pre-configure MySites for our 18,000+ users across 30 different content databases using a Powershell script. While running a file to update composed looks, our log file indicated that 13 MySites weren’t created. These users all had a site collection under our MySite host web application, however, clicking on

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How to delete orphaned Mysites

Promoted Links – Tiles view webpart is one of the easiest way to present the new Tile interface to the user.  The default view only renders the Tiles horizontally and to have wrapped tile view, we have to customise it. For our O365 project, we have customised the Tiles view using the following Javascript. Default

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How to create a wrapped tile-view for the ‘Multiple Promoted Links’ webpart in a page

#Login to server with farm account# #============================================================== #Search Service Application Configuration Settings #==============================================================  $SearchApplicationPoolName = “<SP2013_Search_Service>” $SearchApplicationPoolAccountName = “<Search Service acoount>” $SearchServiceApplicationName = “SP2013 Search Service” $SearchServiceApplicationProxyName = “SP2013 Search Service Proxy” $DatabaseServer = “<Database Instance name>” $DatabaseName = “SP2013_Search” #Confirm permission given on SQL Search instance #Create search index folder on each server where

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How to setup the Sharepoint 2013 search configuration with custom topology using Powershell

Now that Microsoft has officially announced that InfoPath 2013 will be the last version, this adds a dilemma for those customers wanting to select a forms technology that’s future proof. After all, if you pick InfoPath now, it’s probably not going to be supported on SharePoint 2016. (That’s a guess on the name). Anyway, so

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InfoPath Forms Alternatives