This post discusses the Distributed Cache service in SharePoint 2013. Distributed Cache is a new service that ships with SharePoint 2013 based on Windows Server App Fabric Distributed Cache. This service is used in new features like Authentication Token cache and Social features in My site. When you install SharePoint 2013, you end up with running a windows service named AppFabric Caching. You...
Analytics features in SharePoint 2013
The Analytics Platform in SharePoint 2013 replaces the Web Analytics Service application in 2010. Analytics engine has been completely redesigned in SharePoint 2013. This post discusses the New Analytic engine features in SP 2013. SharePoint 2013 Analytics Features Item-to-Item recommendations based on user behavior Example: People who viewed this also viewed xyz Promote search results based on...
SharePoint 2013 System Requirements
This post discusses the Hardware, Software Requirements and browser support for installing SharePoint 2013. Hardware Requirements for Application and Web Server Hardware requirements for Web tier and Application tier whether environment is single or multiple server farms Processor –> 64 bit 4 cores RAM –> At least 8GB RAM for Production Servers and no less than 4GB for developer or...
Integrating JQuery into SharePoint
Integrating JQuery into SharePoint involves putting JQuery library in where it can be accessed from SharePoint Environment. This post discusses about different options available for deploying and loading JQuery library in SharePoint page and then create a webpart using JQuery. Deploying JQuery to SharePoint To manage the JQuery library files in central location , adding them to the layouts...
Creating a Custom Entity Service Object in SharePoint
What is Entity Service Object? How it is related to Business Data Connectivity model? You can read the terms in business connectivity services here. The Entity Service Object is equivalent to ADO.NET provider for SQL Server and Entity class represents the row of data. Create Business Model Project in Visual Studio 2010 to create a service object. Create a Business Data Connectivity Model Project...
List Throttling in SharePoint 2010
Heavy database operations on SharePoint server may sometimes affects the user experience; SharePoint 2010 introduced a concept of List Throttling which prevents your server being going down. List Throttling allows an administrator to specify the maximum number of items that can be retrieved in a single request. For example, if user creates a view with page size 5000 but if administrator limits...
Adding Search functionality for external list in SharePoint
This post describes adding search functionality to external list that created using SharePoint designer. Create a list based on external content type and give a name, when you browse this list for editing, you will notice that values can be selected from the data picker control as shown below It is not user-friendly search; you can give better search functionality by browsing to model...
Useful PowerShell Commands in SharePoint 2010
Using PowerShell is very useful and powerful approach for many SharePoint activities. Microsoft officially recommends to you use PowerShell as it intended to deprecate STSADM in the future. This post explains PowerShell cmdlets(commandlets).Scripting is easier when using PowerShell, you can access every method and property of every object. You have to use right shell to write the...
Physical Deployment Options SharePoint 2010
Physical deployment in SharePoint is something you are determining how many servers you will deploy in Server Farm. You can read my previous post on SharePoint farm topologies here. The common question when you deploying your solutions is How many servers I will need? How do I know? Simple answer is consider your usage plan, uptime needs, number of users and application processing demands...
Privileges to setup and run SharePoint 2010
This post provides the information about service accounts and administrative privileges to setup and run the SharePoint 2010. The below table describes the required Privileges that required to install the SharePoint 2010 Account Description SQL Server Service Account It has to be either a local system account or a domain user account. This account is for SQL server services named MSSQLSERVER and...