"Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException", SharePoint exception after applying cumulative update\service pack

After applying a cumulative update on one of my SharePoint server, tried to run configuration file using psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force command, i got an error saying that "Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An upgrade conflict has occurred and you must re-try this action" We can fix this exception by setting...

SharePoint search error “SharePoint item being crawled returned error when attempting to download the item”

While working with SharePoint, I got an error in search service when I try to index a page having search results using for roll the content in site collection. My search service application and content source are working fine. After checking this error in logs and digging in to...

Content Enrichment web service callout in SharePoint

In SharePoint 2013 search, as a developer we can add custom steps to process the content to modify the managed properties before indexing. We can do this by implementing custom web service in SharePoint to enrich the managed properties of the items that processed. To configure the content enrichment functionality by using Power Shell commands. By Using Get-SPEnterpriseSearchContentEnrichmentConfiguration...

Hit counter for SharePoint site

Generally few of blog sites I have checked the hit counter to count the number of hits for that site. For my blog also we can see the hit counter on the right bottom showing like the image below. So Is there any feature or anything is available in SharePoint. Yes we have...

Code Access Security in SharePoint web parts

Installing SharePoint web part dll files in GAC can cause some security implications. By default all the web parts will be installed in the GAC with full trusts. We can install web parts in web application dedicated bin folder. Web parts in bin folder will run in partial trust and will have only limited access to the bin folder. If web part needs additional permission levels,...

Configure object cache settings in SharePoint

Object cache settings can be configured in Site Collection level from SharePoint user interface. We can configure the maximum cache size in we application level on the front-end web server by placing restrictions on maximum amount of memory to all site collection cache. We can...

Configure SharePoint 2013 document center Connection

We can use connection path to send documents to a document center or record center in SharePoint 2013. This connection will specify the web application that documents will sent from and document center or record center that to be sent to. As a farm admin we can create the connections...

Create SharePoint 2013 custom search engine in Chrome

We can add search center for SharePoint site in google chrome as regular google search for SharePoint site. Here we are just creating a custom search engine by passing SharePoint search site Url as shown below. Navigate to google chrome and right click on the address bar, Select...

Creating content sources in SharePoint using PowerShell commands

We can create the content sources based on the content types as per the requirements. Content types for content sources might be SharePoint site or web or Files that associated with in SharePoint environment. To create a content source based on a web content type we can use the following script, $contentSourceName = “Name of the content source to be configured”; $siteUrl...

Create custom profile property in SharePoint user profile programmatically

While working on user profile service I got the requirement to create custom property through coding for one of my client. I have found the solution to create custom property from Ahmedmandany blog. To create the property, we have to get the current service context  by passing the site object. From the service context object create new UserProfileConfigManager object....

Print to PDF option for SharePoint 2013 documents

From SharePoint 2013 by adding OWA we can get many add-ons. Few of them are Document previewing documents on hover and print PDF etc. Document preview allows users to view the documents and read entire document. Print PDF will allow users to print the document as in PDF. We...