Friday, August 30, 2013

Wow that’s big workbook. Unfortunately we can’t open a workbook larger than 10MB. You’ll need to open this in Excel - Large workbook error in SharePoint Excel Services

While working with excel workbooks in SharePoint, I got an error saying that, “Wow that’s big workbook. Unfortunately we can’t open a workbook larger than 10MB. You’ll need to open this in Excel.” After checking issues into deep, found that the reason for this error is the...

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Configure digest authentication in SharePoint 2013 web application

We can configure digest authentication in SharePoint web application zones. Zones are the logical paths for access to a web application. We can create five different zones for each web application in SharePoint. We can use IIS Manager Console to configure digest authentication one...

Monday, August 26, 2013

Configure document synchronization for all document libraries in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013, users can synchronize all the files saved in document library to the local machine and local machines to SharePoint document libraries. Windows sync in SkyDrive will performs the synchronization between SharePoint document libraries and local machine. Users...

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Assign Catalog item page and category page to a term in SharePoint 2013

To show structured content in a site, we can use category pages and catalog page layouts. This can be viewed to show catalog content on a site using managed navigation. We can assign a category page or catalog page to all terms or specific terms in a term set. We have to configure...

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Cross Site Publishing in SharePoint 2013- Part III - Connect publishing site catalog in SharePoint

To display the content from a list or library that is shared as catalog, we have to connect the publishing site collection to the catalog. To connect the publishing site collection catalog, catalog content and term set should be integrated to the publishing site collection and...

Monday, August 19, 2013

Configure Search in cross site publishing

Cross site publishing depends on the search to create a content source and to manage crawling for SharePoint cross-site publishing. In SharePoint, content source will specify crawling in SharePoint farm. By default, after creating the search service application content source will...

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Make term set available to site collections in SharePoint

Once we create the term set in SharePoint managed metadata, we can make that available to all the site collection in the web applications or specific site collections. We can do that by the steps shown below, Navigate to site settings and click on Term store Management in Site...

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Cross site publishing in SharePoint 2013 - Part II

In my previous post I have mentioned how to create Publishing site collection and authoring site collection and activate cross-site publishing feature. After configuring cross-site publishing, we need to set up new term set and terms and have to make that available for tagging the...

Friday, August 9, 2013

Information management policies in SharePoint

Information management policy is a set of rules for content. Each rule in a policy is called as policy features. Information policy management features specify the content auditing, content accessing and how long that information retained. We can associate a policy with a library,...

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Configure Document conversion and Create web page from document in SharePoint 2013

By using Document conversion, we can create a web page with uploaded document in simple and easy way. By using this functionality content authors can create pages with content easily because the converter is associated with content types and content author is not limited any document library. To...

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Cross site publishing in SharePoint 2013 - Part I

Cross-site publishing will allow us to create and maintain the content in one or more authoring Site Collections. It will allow us to publish and access the content one or more site collections. We can use cross site publishing when we want to save and manage the content in one...