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SharePoint Best Practices : Part 1

Create SQL Server Alias in SharePoint Farm Recently we ran in to a problem, where our production application suddenly started throwing 502 errors due to performance degradation. After analyzing few things, we suspect that our database server has some problems. As this was a production server and we didn’t want to keep this problem for SharePoint Best Practices : Part 1

SharePoint search is returning 500 internal server error page : Resolved

Recently i was working on a Intranet Portal and most part of it was based on documents collaboration. So to easily find a document i configured search for the site. I created a new content source in existing search service application and crawl the source. It was crawled successfully without showing an error or warning, SharePoint search is returning 500 internal server error page : Resolved

Update custom list’s feature reference | Update custom list’s feature id reference.

Disclaimer: Approach used in this blog post is risky and not recommended. The idea of this post is to just understand the insight and sharing my experience with my blog readers. If still you want to try this for any situation then please do this at your own risk. We earlier created a custom list Update custom list’s feature reference | Update custom list’s feature id reference.

Microsoft Outlook Search is Not Working : Resolved

I had Outlook 2010 and I was not able to search any email using search box. Whenever I used to click on search box provided in Outlook, Search toolbar area got grayed out. Even if I tried to search email by putting criteria manually, it didn’t work out for me. Search functionality is the backbone of any system where tons of information is stored.

Remove orphan feature(s) entry from SharePoint’s ManageFeatures.aspx

At times we need to get rid of feature(s) from SharePoint farm, those are no longer required. This is kind of cleaning and managing your SharePoint Farm. Most of the time due to inappropriate procedure or by using a 3rd party tool, Feature gets removed but it still displays on Feature.aspx page. When you try Remove orphan feature(s) entry from SharePoint’s ManageFeatures.aspx

PeoplePicker not showing FBA users (Claims Based Authentication)

Recently i faced an issue in a SharePoint site while i was trying to add a FBA user in a site group. On searching the user in people picker, it was not showing the FBA user(s) to select. Every time i searched the FBA user(s) through people picker, it returned me only user(s) from AD. PeoplePicker not showing FBA users (Claims Based Authentication)

Microsoft Visio 2010 crashes very frequently : Resolved

I was working on DFD of an on-going project. For DFD designing I chose Microsoft Visio 2010 but after doing some work on that I came to know that Visio crashes very frequently. Believe me that for callout descriptions I need to copy paste a text and for achieving this task Visio crashed more than Microsoft Visio 2010 crashes very frequently : Resolved

Create large size file for testing on the fly!

Suppose we write some custom code for uploading/downloading files. Now we want to test the size limitation of a file for Uploading/downloading the file. So for achieving this we look a large file here and there in our system for testing. Here i am demonstrating that how to create a large file for testing in Create large size file for testing on the fly!

Copy & Paste between Local and Remote Desktop

1. Go to the remote desktop server. 2. Open Task Manager and click on Processes tab. 3. Look for rdpclip.exe process. 4. If find rdpclip.exe then End Process this by right click on it. (well if you dont find rdpclip.exe in task manager then no need to worry just follow 5th step.) 5. Go to Copy & Paste between Local and Remote Desktop