I recently had a client requirement to send out an automated company-wide birthday greeting email whenever it was someone’s birthday. I decided to use SharePoint Designer to create a workflow that sends an email, and then run it on a timer job that runs nightly. This timer job would pull all employees that have a birthday
SharePoint is built and ready for content management but it can be a challenge to take advantage of the tools it provides. The question of whether folders or metadata should be used is a question that is asked over and over in every SharePoint project and SharePoint community. The 2 primary methods for organizing content
Hello, I have noticed there is a bug in the KB2880998 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880998) which was deployed by Microsoft on 12th August 2014. This causes a serious Workflow Manager 1.0 related problem in SharePoint 2013 server. After you install this package you face an issue: Method ‘StartWorkflowOnListItem’ in type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricWorkflowInstanceProvider’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ does not
Between last week and this week I had probably one of the weirdest errors that I have faced. After Installing Sharepoint 2013 SP 1, some users were complaining that it was taking a long time to load the pages on this site collection, specially the list views. However Administrators verified and we were not
In my previous article on Microsoft Technet I described how to migrate an out of the box site from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. In the more advanced scenario we have to migrate site which has customization. So in this post I will discuss migrating the SharePoint site which has customization such as: 1. Custom Themes 2.
No matter what size your organization, at some point you will need to ensure that certain employees read and acknowledge policies and procedure documents – for example company policies, risk assessments or employee manuals. Depending on your organization, industry and compliance regulations the list of documents can seem endless. Creating a document, managing its distribution
In the last weekend I tried, with a number of CGI colleagues, how far we could get implementing a case management system with SharePoint 2013. The last years we have created a number of case management systems on multiple platforms and the idea ripened that this should be doable on SharePoint as well. We choose
1. Error: Unable to properly communicate workflow service. Resolution : Re-installed workflow manager by removing FQDN(servername.domainname) with Service Bus 1.0 cumulative update 1. Do not use FQDN (fully qualified domain name). Ex: SP2013DEV01.Contoso.com à SP2013DEV01\SP2013DEV01 Reference: For Install and Uninstall Workflow Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193448 2. Error : Create designer WF for testing. When you trying to publishing
I recently underwent a 2 hour overview of K2 workflow software that integrates with SharePoint to provide, IMHO, some impressive benefits. Although K2 can be used independently of SharePoint, when used in conjunction with SharePoint it packs a punch, especially when compared to Nintex which is a rival software. My blog post is not a direct
Recently, I was working in an environment where they wanted to migrate a single list to a new Site Collection. I needed to find the easiest way to do it without using third-party software. I found that using Export-SPWeb is one of the ways copy list schema and data from one web app to another
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