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Re: Activating Windows 8 Enterprise RTM – 0x8007007B

Genaro O. Mislang III — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:10:37 -0000

I have the same problem as you do

Re: Host-Named Site Collection Limitations

Michele — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:10:34 -0000

Hi Gus, thanks for the article, I was looking at the Fiddler trace before reading this, but I would have not figured out it was an issue with the bindings. I was misleaded by the spclaimproviderwebservice.svc
How did you figured out from the trace it is a WCF bindings issue?
I then tested it and having one binding only solves the issue.

btw this happens regardless of having host named site collection

Re: Creating a Public Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1

David Finley — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:31:37 -0000

Thanks for the blog. Can you tell me if the article here is describing the same technology used here: http://www.office365website... ?

Re: Host-Named Site Collection Limitations

Hois Christian — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:40:15 -0000

Does anybody have a soltions for it. I have this Problem too. Need urgently a Workaround!

Re: Choose your (JavaScript) Framework wisely!

Dean Smith — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:55:31 -0000

I seriously question your choice of metrics / one data point for some of the above.

Google Search Results (just count the zeroes!)

PHP: 2,340,000,000
C#: 38,200,000

Also, I would argue that the popularity of jQuery was driven by a vibrant open source community (not any sort of backing by a single company) and especially great documentation. The same was true in the early rise of PHP. Google have been fostering this and trying to focus on documentation for AngularJS, which has helped a lot too.

But I agree with your overall point of being careful of fad frameworks!

Re: Choose your (JavaScript) Framework wisely!

Gus Fraser — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:48:36 -0000

Thanks Marc - I agree it's not absolute science, and I did toy with the idea of using Google Trend's new beta feature which actually categorises the search terms - try searching for Ruby and you can select Ruby (Programming Language) or Ruby (Web Framework) or just Ruby.

"Beta: Measuring search interest in topics is a beta feature which quickly provides accurate measurements of overall search interest. To measure search interest for a specific query, select the "search term" option"

I think even though KnockoutJS is the real name you do get similar results; I like Knockout too - they are not directly comparable; AC does a good job of summarising http://www.andrewconnell.co...

Re: Choose your (JavaScript) Framework wisely!

Marc D Anderson — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:51:01 -0000

Gus:

Great analysis. I went to fiddle with Google Trends a little. I think things are going to be skewed a bit based on your searches. For example, KnockoutJS is the real name versus knockout.js. Ideally, we'd want to combine several terms into one for each framework/library/plugin. (The debate about what each of those terms mean may be another post!)

That said, I don't disagree with any of your conclusions. But I love KnockoutJS!

Re: Embedding a Web Part in a SharePoint 2013 Master Page via Design Manager

Nelson Puello — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:55:41 -0000

The parser does not like having the tags in the same line. Just like you posted in your article :-).

Re: Embedding a Web Part in a SharePoint 2013 Master Page via Design Manager

Gus Fraser — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:09:32 -0000

This shouldn't make a difference but instead of e.g.

< !--SPM:<value type="Text">-- >
< !--SPM:HOME-002-->
< !--SPM:</value>-- >

I would try

< !--SPM:<value type="Text">HOME-002</value>-- >

Just in case it's being mangled a bit somehow. Will give it a try when I get a minute.

Re: Embedding a Web Part in a SharePoint 2013 Master Page via Design Manager

Nelson Puello — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:00:54 -0000

Thanks, Gus. I am not concerned about anonymity as this is an on-prem SharePoint 2013 lab environment. Here is a link to a paste original XsltListViewWebPart from SPD http://pastebin.com/HtFSJRH9. Then, here is a paste of the code generated by Design Manager http://pastebin.com/3C16vqWN.

Re: Embedding a Web Part in a SharePoint 2013 Master Page via Design Manager

Gus Fraser — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:45:35 -0000

Can you paste the contents of your (anonymised) webpart into Pastebin or somewhere to have a look? Not promising anything but could give something similar it a try on one of my tenants if you like

Re: Embedding a Web Part in a SharePoint 2013 Master Page via Design Manager

Nelson Puello — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:41:52 -0000

Gus, thanks for the great article. It has been very helpful. However, I have a small problem with this process and I was hoping you could give me some pointers. I can successfully add an XsltListView web part into a master page (Publishing), and I can see the list items when the page is rendered. However, when I add a filter to the web part so that I can see a single item I get no results. It seems that the contents of the <query> tag do not work. If I remove the <query> tag and its contents the list displays the items. I know the query works because I can insert it into an aspx page and the list renders just the item I am querying for. Thanks.

Re: Office 365 Public Facing Websites – Design Manager – Part 2

Gus Fraser — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 06:54:23 -0000

Hi - check out my Conference session at SP24 which covers a lot more: http://www.sp24conf.com/201... :) Thanks for reminding me, I'll post an update with a link to the session other recent findings

Re: Office 365 Public Facing Websites – Design Manager – Part 2

jerioon — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:43:51 -0000

When will the Part 3 come?

Re: Word experienced an error trying to open the file

rony009 — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:20:14 -0000

Hey I had the same issue with my computer. I wasted my time on it for

many days but finally I got a solution from this link
http://www.microsoftliveass...

Re: Office 365 Public Facing Websites – Design Manager – Part 2

Samantha — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:17:11 -0000

I'm having trouble with this. When I choose the html file I need converted, it states that there was an error and that the file cannot be edited changed or deleted. What am I doing wrong?

Re: SharePoint 2010 "The language of this installation package is not supported by your system"

brad — Wed, 21 May 2014 11:19:03 -0000

Hope this helps........................... easy as 1,2,3..

1. Download SharePoint =
put the setup file to a new folder: C:\SharePointFiles (I downloaded: SharePoint_SP2_en-us.exe )

2. Extract the file =
open dos prompt, cd to the new folder, and run this command:
c:\SharePointFiles\SharePoint_SP2_en-us.exe /extract:c:\SharePointFiles
(Where SharePoint_SP2_en-us.exe is the name of the file you downloaded)

3. edit config.xml =
navigate to this folder in the file system: C:\SharePointFiles\Files\Setup
Add this line to the config.xml: <setting id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" value="True"/>
( between the <configuration> tags )

Now you can run the setup: c:\SharePointFiles> setup.exe

Re: Creating a Public Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1

Sanjai — Mon, 12 May 2014 07:41:18 -0000

There is another good thing is that if you export Content Query and summary links webpart from your office 365 team site and import to Public site, it will work. strange but I am happy to have that.

Re: Creating a Public Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1

Gus Fraser — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:28:52 -0000

Here is a fun test - go to this page with a new browser session:

https://dailyplanet-public....

Then reload the page...

Re: Creating a Public Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1

Gus Fraser — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:27:35 -0000

Search-driven publishing on O365 would be a nightmare though... real issues for anonymous users. I wasn't aware the Cross-Site publishing does work on O365 public-facing sites? Will have to check that out... surprising, as there are plenty of limitations (as you can see in MY SP24 session) :-) Will definitely check yours out too, sounds like a deal? ;-)

Re: Creating a Public Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1

Marius Constantinescu — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:07:04 -0000

A small precision - if by "Product Catalog" you actually mean the actual Web Template and the Catalogs list that gets created - than absolutelly you are right, but the actual Cross-Site publishing capability do exists on Office 365 nowadays, as for the actual Catalog related features, these could be easily replicated - watch my session on the SP24 about "Real-live experience about search-driven publishing in product-centric sites". Same goes for the CSWP also nowadays available!

Re: SharePoint alternate access by IP address

Gus Fraser — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:32:38 -0000

..and you can change host files on client PCs easily? This was to suit a team that urgently needed access to docs, no way of us making changes on their machines. But I agree, hosts file if you have access.

Re: SharePoint alternate access by IP address

jasmeen — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:08:05 -0000

the easiest and quickest way is to use host file (tiny DNS) ;) -- and you are done.

80.60.40.20 sharepoint.domain.com

Re: Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on

Gus Fraser — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:57:51 -0000

Did you definitely remove all batteries? What model are you using? I would call Lenovo support; not sure about US but in the UK you have statutory rights which means that anything defective within 30 days is certainly covered.

Re: Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on

Jared Connell — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:51:03 -0000

this isn't working for me :( is there any special trick or something else to try? I've had it unplugged for a while now and tried this like a dozen times and I am getting pretty frustrated. it seems like a lot of people are having the same problem so hopefully lenovo will be able to help me with it. i wish this would have happened 2 weeks ago9 so i could've returned it to best buy, they only allow 15 days for returns :( i thought i had 30 days dang it!