One step close to Microsoft… OR another dream comes true…

Recently, I have been nominated and accepted as a extended V-TSP program (now called as P-Seller)

What is a P-Seller (VTSP) is an employee of a Microsoft Partner who is acting as an extension of the Microsoft team in the capacity of pre-sales technical support. As a V-TSP, I have ability to position, demonstrate, design and implement Microsoft solutions.

• We’re given Microsoft network credentials, email address and VPN access.  We can use these to gain additional access to Microsoft internal resources (similar to what’s available to full time employees).
• Access to guidance on technical learning plans, solution training, advanced technical training material and Pilot/PoC/ADS training material.
• Tighter integration with product teams.
• Additional training outside of what is available to other partners or the public.

Misconceptions about SharePoint farm admin account

Two days ago I received a call regards to SharePoint farm admin account access level.

“SharePoint farm admin account has access to all site collection and able to site content” the argument is

“Farm admin defined in Central Admin will always have full access to everything in the farm, because they are by nature, farm admin.”

My reply was NO SharePoint farm admin account by default don’t have access to SharePoint Site collection or site content, unless the user is member of “Domain User” AD group. (By default when you create user in AD which automatically add user to “Domain User group”

So decided to try myself :

Created new user called user1 on my AD

Created Site Collection with User 1 as primary administrator

Login using Farm admin account  “Sorry, this site hasn’t been shared with you.

Login using User 1 account

Farm Administrator: This account refer to the SharePoint Administrator like us, these accounts are usually user account and they just explore the Central admin. A user with Farm Admin rights is not automatically granted rights in Site Collections. To bypass having to add the user to every Site Collection, in Central Administration go to Manage Web Applications.

Farm administrators have no access to site content by default; they must take ownership of site collections to view any content. They can do this by adding themselves as site collection administrators—but ideally, they’ll leave the content management side to you, so they can focus on the software.

SharePoint farm administrators (refer to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/permissions-for-site-collection-administrators-HA101943260.aspx)

SharePoint farm administrators control settings in the SharePoint Central Administration Web site – that is, settings that apply to all the site collections in your organization’s SharePoint deployment. They also create site collections and set the first layer of permissions for site collections.

These settings affect the types of decisions that you can make, as a site collection administrator. Here are the permissions decisions that farm administrators can make:

• Enable or disable the anonymous access feature.
• Specify which permission levels are available for you to choose from.
• Specify which individual permissions are available within each permission level.
• Choose how much of SharePoint Designer is available in the site collection.
• Choose which users can manage service applications, such as the User Profile Service application, or Search. Each service application has its own customizable permission settings.
• Add another user as a farm administrator.

SharePoint Migration What do I expect ? (The issues and solution)

There are tons of resources on the Internet today that tell you how to migrate your SharePoint 2007 environment to SharePoint 2010.

Sometimes, achieving something becomes difficult due to of lack of information, This presentation will help you in achieving your migration goal.

You may probably have seen these articles or links that talk about

• Top 5 SharePoint Migration Pitfalls
• Database attach or Backup-SPSite / Restore-SPSite
• Understand the SharePoint Migration Schedule
• Understand Your SharePoint Customizations Before Migrating

In this presentation, I am going to cover the issue that you may discover during your migration or after migration. ?

SharePoint Migration What do I expect ? (The issues and solutions) from Mohamed Faizal

Newsfeed : we’re still collecting the latest news !!!

After you overcome My Site issue you may encounter another issue

We’re still collecting the latest news, you may see more if you try again a litter later

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After waiting few hours and restarted server and tried many ways but no help its shows me… above message…

and try this option : http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpriem/archive/2012/08/20/sharepoint-2013-preview-newsfeeds-showing-nothing.aspx no help… :-(

So i decided to investigate ULS Log, which shows displays that “No cache hosts are present or running in the farm”

Under Service notice that AppFabric Caching Service was disable, I started the service and Re-set Application Pool and Re-Set IIS server NO HELP !!!

Finally discover that “Distributed cache” is stopped on SharePoint Service on Server

Go to Central Administration, click Application Management.

In Service Applications, click Manage Services on Server.

On the Services on Server page, locate the Distributed Cache service.

If the Distributed Cache service is stopped and you want to start the service, under Action, click Start.

Click “Newsfeed” now you can view “Status update text box, newsfeeds…” enjoy…

SharePoint 2013 : My Site Something went wrong ?

After Install & configure SharePoint Server 2013. First think everyone wants to explore the new feature called “Newsfeed” on My Site.

Unfortunately, sometimes you may expected following error.

“We’re sorry, Something went wrong with your My Site setup.

Please try again later or contact your help desk.” 

This error due to root site, after Installing SharePoint 2013, you need to configure default the Root (/) site collection, sometimes you may created under /Sites/ instead of Root (/).

Now you create new Site collection  (/) Root. this will enable you to create My Site without any issue. :-)

After Root Site collection created you may able to see Newsfeed, Blog, Apps, and Tasks

3 Steps to Setup your SharePoint 2013 Preview

 

After long back once again, I try to create small note or share my knowledge with SharePoint community in Singapore, This article covers 3 basic steps to Install & Configure, Learn and understand the change on SharePoint 2013 Preview. I try my level best to cover visually step-by-step configuration from simply enabling Hyper-V on Windows 8, installing Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 to complexly installing SharePoint 2013. Hope this help you, Please note that this only for test purposes not on production.

1. System Requirements, Download tools & Setup and Install.
2. IT Pro & Developer Training
3. What is New in SharePoint 2013 

System Requirements, Download tools & Setup and Install.

Minimum Hardware & Software Requirements

The requirements for a development environment for an installation of apps for SharePoint 2013

Processor: 64-bit, 4 cores

RAM:  8 GB for production use 6 GB for developer or evaluation use

Hard disk:  80 GB free for system drive

Installation of SharePoint 2013 Preview is supported only on Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2. (Windows 7 not supported yet)

To install & configure how to: Set up an on-premises development environment for apps for SharePoint

Download Tools

1. Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2

2. SharePoint Server 2013 Beta

3. Visual Studio 2012

4. SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2008 R2

5. Windows 8 Hyper-V (64 bit)

Windows 8, Go Windows Features and Enable Hyper-V feature.

 

Hyper-v Manager running on Windows 8

I configure using Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 RC on Windows 8), Domain Controller with SQL Server 2012.

Install SQL Server 2012…

Install & Configure SharePoint Server 2013

Run SharePoint 2013 Preview Products Preparation Tool which will install all the prerequisites…

Once prerequisites software installed, please restart your Windows 2012 OS and install SharePoint 2013 Preview.

You can enter preview product key : 6RNT8-XV26M-GWH36-VMGQH-94MMH

Setup completed… now run configuration wizard to configure SharePoint 2013 preview…  

SharePoint 2013 configuration Wizard helps to Install and configure features and services,Configure security and create sample data. 

Select Create a new server farm option

Enter SQL Server 2012 / 2008 R2 Instance name, User Name and Password.

 

If you wish to change default port no, please change as well (I change to port no 2013)

While installing SharePoint 2013 for a Stand-Alone setup on Hyper-V encounter some issues.

Step 3. "Failed to create a Configuration Database"

Step 3. “Failed to connect to the configuration database”

Step 3. “Failed to create sample database”

To resolve above issue follow the steps

Step 1: SQL Server 2012 Management Studio Access the below (.\ZAREEF) > Security > Logins > {logged in user account} > Server Roles >

Step 2: Provide following server Roles for Administrator account

• dbcreate
• public
• serveradmin
• setupadmin
• sysadmin

Step 3: Services required to run the Configuration Wizard

• AppFabric Caching Service
• SQL Server Agent (SHAREPOINT)
• Workstation - need to be started.

Step 4:

• Open a SharePoint PowerShell command prompt
• . cd to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN
• Substituting your own values where needed, run the command:
• .\PSCONFIG.EXE -cmd Configdb create SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost user ZAREEF\Administrator password <yourpassowrd> passphrase <yourpassphrase>
• Re-run the SharePoint 2013 Product Configuration Wizard.  It should run right through the first 3 steps and start processing from step 4.

Note, you may have to clean up databases created from previously failed attempts by the wizard. (else system will have more than one configuration and administration database).

configuration wizard will start from task 4 to 10 and complete….

Welcome to SharePoint 2013 preview… and follow the steps to configure Service Application and Site Collection to explore new features

Incase if need to Install & Configure using Virtual Box visit :

How to Creating Image 

Setup & Configure domain controller

Install & Configure SQL Server 2012

Install & Configure SharePoint 2013

Also SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 R2

If you need to know How to Upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Step by Step by Ali.Mazaheri

 

SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros

Find IT pro-focused how-to training and walkthrough videos with this interactive course about SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, plus deployment and performance/scalability.

Downloadable links for the presentations (.pptx) for each module are available later on this page. You can also download all presentations.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/fp123606

 

SharePoint 2013 training for developers

Developer-focused how to training and walkthrough videos about Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, ECM, WCM, and REST. Learn about apps for Office and SharePoint.

Important: These videos are based on an earlier preview version of Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Visual Studio so you might notice a few discrepancies

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/fp123633

What is New in SharePoint 2013

• Developer Tool : Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer, in addition to providing the release of newly developed web-based tool "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools for developing apps
• Web Standard: Common web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Furthermore, implementation relies on established protocols like the Open Data protocol (OData), and OAuth.
• Mobility: SharePoint-powered mobile applications for Windows Phone using the new SharePoint phone application wizard template in Visual Studio
• Social: Adds new features that improve and facilitate the enterprise social activities within the organization:
• Follow people as well as content (documents, sites, tags)
• Share personal documents easily and keep track of access
• Keep up-to-date with activities of interest
• Company Feeds

To learn about SharePoint 2013 Preview ESN Capabilities : http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2012/07/29/sharepoint-2013-social-networking-capabilities-complete-tutorial/

• Community Site: Features such as reputation, categories, featured discussions, a question-post type, and best replies let community members easily find popular discussions, relevant information, and people with similar interests. Members build reputation as they participate in communities

• Search: several enhancements, custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service, and a new framework for presenting search result types. Additionally, there have been significant enhancements made to the keyword query language (KQL)

• Workflow: SharePoint Designer 2013 Preview to author powerful workflows, and a new set of Visual Studio 2012 workflow project templates let developers access more sophisticated features like custom actions. Perhaps most importantly, Windows Azure Workflow is fully integrated with the model for apps for SharePoint
• ECM: Newly expanded set of .NET server managed APIs, to customize Enterprise Content Management (ECM) experiences and behavior. Design Manager, Managed Navigation, Cross-Site Publishing and EDiscovery.
• BCS : has been improved and enhanced in many ways, including OData connectivity, external data systems such as SAP, ERP, and CRM,external events, external data in apps, filtering and sorting, support for REST, and others
• Application Service: Word Automation Services and PowerPoint Automation Services (a new feature for SharePoint). SharePoint also provides data analysis tools, like PerformancePoint Services and Visio Services, that enable business intelligence, and powerful new features in Excel Services

Changes SharePoint Server 2013 Preview.

• The visual upgrade feature in SharePoint Server 2010 is not available in SharePoint 2013 Preview.
• The Document Workspace site template is not available
• The Personalization Site site template is not available
• The Group Work site template is not available
• Can't edit workbooks in the browser that have external data connections, due to design limitation
• Web Analytics in SharePoint Server 2010 has been discontinued and Analytics processing for SharePoint 2013 Preview is now a component of the Search service.