Introduction The Distributed Cache service provides caching features in SharePoint Server 2013. The Distributed Cache service is built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service. Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2013. This is how Microsoft defined the Distributed Cache service but what is depend on the Distributed

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How to make SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache service Semi High Available

Here is the screen by screen guide to import a Azure BACPAC database to a local machine using SQL Server 2012 management studio. Required Tools / Data: SQL Server 2012 management studio with the latest version of SSDT. ( Note: Make sure the SQL Server 2012 Management studio is upto date. Otherwise while importing    

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Windows Azure Storage – BACPAC Import database – Using SQL server (2012) Management Studio

The scenario is as follows: You are administering a central SQL Server, which hosts SharePoint databases for many DEV/QA test farms. Those farms come and go as VMs with broken SharePoints are removed and new are set up. If your team is sloppy, this can happen even a few times per month (depending on the

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How to discover your SharePoint farms on SQL Server without the use of the SharePoint API

(cross-posted from my blog at http://sharepointduffbert.com/2013/09/04/fixing-the-infopath-cannot-open-the-following-file-xxxxxx-the-parameter-is-incorrect-problem/) My SharePointBuddy (SPB) recently ran into an issue on an InfoPath form she was working on. Someone went in to try and update the form, and they received the following error: This wasn’t a form we wanted to recreate from scratch, yet most attempts to fix it weren’t giving the

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Fixing the “InfoPath cannot open the following file: xxxxxx The parameter is incorrect” problem…