Nauplius.ADLDS.Provider
Business Purpose This is a SharePoint plugin that allows SharePoint Administrators to enable users with alternate account types to log in and use SharePoint. Technical Information An LDAP Membership...
View ArticleSharePoint WarmUp
Business Purpose The purpose of SharePoint WarmUp is to prevent long page load times when first visiting a SharePoint site. Technical Information This solution leverages the IIS 7.5 Application...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Release of Nauplius.SharePoint.BlobCache 1.5
Nauplius.SharePoint.BlobCache is a SharePoint 2010 and 2013 solution that helps you manage the BLOB cache and all available settings, both documented and undocumented. New with this release is a...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 – Bug with Alert Me on a Discussion Item
If you attempt to set an Alert on a specific Discussion Post, like this: You will end up a yellow screen of death, like this: [crayon-529098412941f971351238/] This bug appears to be ‘long standing’,...
View ArticleNew SharePoint 2013 Cmdlet: Update-SPHelp
Update-SPHelp is a new PowerShell cmdlet that shipped with the October 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2013. There are only a couple of options with it, namely the -Force parameter allowing you...
View ArticleTargeting the Search Crawler to a Specific Server
In many medium to large SharePoint deployments, search is a critical piece of the farm architecture. An underperforming search instance can lead to severe discoverability issues as well as potentially...
View ArticleBecome a Rockstar!
There is this cool startup named Rockstar 365 that helps people find Microsoft technology specialists, kind of like a LinkedIn for Microsoft without all of the ‘social’. It can help you keep track of...
View ArticleVisio Services Missing Images
In SharePoint 2013, Visio Services may throw errors in the Application Event Log. This event appears to happen when you open the Web Part Options for the Visio Web Access web part:...
View ArticleThe Magic of Get-SPProduct -Local
Many of us have run into that situation where you’ve installed an update, started the Config Wizard, and you get a message that such-and-such server doesn’t have these updates. But they’re installed,...
View ArticleNo Activity in User Profile Synchronization During User Sync
I had one client where during User Profile Synchronization, profiles were not being pulled in. After they checked the miisclient (located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 December 2013 Cumulative Updates
The December 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 has been released. SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2849990 SharePoint Server 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2849971...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 December 2013 Cumulative Updates
SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2849961/en-us SharePoint Server 2013: Project Server 2013: Office Web Apps 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2850013/en-us Office 2013...
View ArticleQuickly Identifying Reporting Services Subscriptions in SharePoint
With Reporting Services integrated into SharePoint, it is often not easy to identify where certain Reporting Services features are used, for example, where users have set up Subscriptions. We can...
View ArticleNew Release: Crawl Target Solution for SharePoint
Based on my previous post regarding targeting a crawler at a specific server running the Foundation Web service, I have built a Central Administration-UI to allow SharePoint Administrators to do this...
View ArticleNauplius.SharePoint.CrawlTarget
Business Purpose This is a SharePoint plugin designed to allow SharePoint Administrators target the SharePoint Search Service crawler at a specific SharePoint Server for each Web Application,...
View ArticleChanging Domains!
It’s almost a new year, so it is time to move domains. Http://sharepoint.nauplius.net is now http://thesharepointfarm.com! Hopefully that is easier for everyone to remember.
View ArticleNew Release: Nauplius.SharePoint.FoundationSync 2.0
A new release of the Nauplius.SharePoint.FoundationSync solution is now available! This new release brings synchronization of Active Directory group information to the User Information List, as well as...
View ArticleTop 10 Posts of 2013
A lot has happened this past year, and I wanted to highlight the top 10 posts on this blog by traffic in 2013, as well as a few of my favorite posts. Installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012 on...
View ArticleSharePoint Private Properties in PowerShell
Welcome to the New Year! Hope everyone is having a great start! Now back to SharePoint… Yet Another Originated From the MSDN/TechNet Forums Question (these are always fun). So there was a question...
View ArticleGetting a Project Workspace URL in Project Server
Project Server includes an optional Project Site for each Project. We can use the PSI, specifically WssInterop, to get the URL for the Project itself. The first thing you will need is the GUID of the...
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