Distribution lists in SharePoint

In SharePoint, we can manage the users by assigning the permission levels to groups. We can do that by setting up individual users of Active directory groups. We can do that in two ways using Security groups in site and using distribution groups. A distribution group is used...

Gantt view errors in SharePoint site- “Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: This view requires at least Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Mozilla FireFox 3.0, or Apple Safari 3.0.”

In SharePoint 2010, sometime we try to browse the gantt index pages, we can see the error as “Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: This view requires at least Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, or Apple Safari 3.0.” as shown the image below. We can get this...

Document information panel in SharePoint

Document information panel in SharePoint contains Meta data about document. This will enables users to enter metadata regarding the document. Documents stored in library will contain other columns to show metadata. Document information panel will display the field for each content type...

SharePoint user profile service error: An error was encountered while retrieving the service

While working with SharePoint user profile through code, I got an error when accessing the user profile from user profile manager. Stack trace has thrown the error as,   Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserNotFoundException was unhandled   Message=An error was encountered while retrieving the user profile.   Source=Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles I...

Difference between Cumulative updates, Service Packs and Public Updates

While applying the updates in SharePoint I have a lot of confusion every time in Cumulative Updates, Service Packs and Public updates. By going through articles in TechNet and some of blog posts, i have found the following differentiation among them. Service Pack: It’s an update or combination of previous updates helps to make our product more reliable. It includes new fixes,...

Retrieve user manager and send email in SharePoint designer workflow

Recently I had a simple requirement like leave approval task. Whenever user submits a leave request, an email needs to be send user manager. It is an easy task by providing the manager name in leave request form. But we don’t have manager field here. So according the requirement...

Shape images using Image renditions technique in SharePoint 2013

Generally SharePoint content writers can get images from other departments like marketing or business development users in some high resolution formats. Content writers can upload that image to the SharePoint after re-sizing the image to their need. In SharePoint 2013...

Work management service application in SharePoint 2013

We have a new service application in SharePoint 2013 to track the user tasks distributed across the sites/site collections/web applications. This will provide to aggregation of the tasks to a central location in SharePoint server. By using this service users can view their to-do tasks...

Image sliding in SharePoint using Picture Library Slideshow WebPart

We can get image sliding functionality using SharePoint inbuilt WebPart “Picture Library Slideshow WebPart” Using this in-built WebPart we can slide the images from SharePoint picture Library. We can create and display the slideshow in selected page. We can add image slider to...

SharePoint 2010 Access error - "This report failed to load because session state is not turned on. Contact your SharePoint farm administrator"

While working with SharePoint access services, Browsing contacts after publishing the Contacts form in SharePoint site I got an error saying that, “This report failed to load because session state is not turned on. Contact your SharePoint farm administrator” as shown the image...

Always open visual studio with admin privilege

This is a basic post other than SharePoint. Generally we will get issues if we open Visual Studio other than administrator permissions. To overcome those security issues it will be preferred to open VS in admin credentials. We can do that by Right clicking on visual studio short...

Hide Ribbon from Anonymous users in SharePoint 2013

In my current project, I had a requirement to hide the ribbon from anonymous users dude to security reasons. In SharePoint 2010 we can do that by modifying the master page. But in 2013, we can’t modify the master page directly. We need to modify the .html file associated with the...