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SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server MAXDOP setting

darko — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:31:00 GMT

When installing SharePoint Server (both 2010 and 2013 versions) there is a certain configuration of the service accounts under which you should install the platform. We should always use so called "Setup Account" for the installation. This account is Farm Administrator, and should be Local Administrator on each SharePoint Machine and on the SQL Server must be at least member of db_creator and security_admin sql roles.

I have done many SharePoint 2010 installations with this configuration and each was successful. Recently I tried installing SharePoint 2013 on my development machine and on this machine both SP and SQL were installed. So my Setup Account was Local Administrator on the machine which represents both SP and SQL Server. The installation was successful once again.

Today I tried to install production SharePoint 2013 on server topology where SharePoint Server and SQL Server were on different machine, a very normal architecture for the production. I make this account Local Administrator on SharePoint and only required sql roles on SQL Server. When I started configuration (with PowerShell scripts, but the case is same with Configuration Wizard) I received an error:

New-SPConfigurationDatabase : This SQL Server instance does not have the required "max degree of parallelism" setting of 1. Database provisioning operations will continue to fail if "max degree of parallelism" is not set 1 or the current account does not have permissions to change the setting. See documentation for details on manually changing the setting.

I was surprised by the error because I haven't seen this before on any other installation, even on my Development machine. Researching the web I found that for SharePoint 2013, this became requirement. SQL Server setting MAXDOP=1 was recommendation even in SharePoint 2010, but if ignoring it, the configuration will pass without problems. But why setup was successful on my SharePoint 2013 Development machine? The catch is that if your Setup Account is Local Administrator (or better said SQL Server sys admin) on the SQL Server, the setup will change this setting for you. That's why I was't notified for this on my Development machine, because SQL Server was on the same machine and this account was Local Administrator. But on production, this account was not Local Administrator on SQL Server and I received the error.

Changing this setting to 1 solved my problem.

[Update] After receiving this error, you should delete Configuration database from the first try, because it is created but is empty. Then change the setting and run configuration once again. New configuration database will be created.

Here are some resources about this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292622.aspx

SharePoint 2013 configuration with PowerShell

darko — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:35:00 GMT

Back when I was starting to work with (back then new) SharePoint 2010 I found a blog post from my friend Toni Frankola about using PowerShell scripts to automate SharePoint farm configuration. I found this scripts very useful not only because they automate the process of configuration, but they also increase the control over your farm configuration, they are reusable and much more.

PowerShell become more powerful in SharePoint 2013 and I found many scripts about automating farm and services. But the Toni’s scripts were packages very well, with many inputs, confirmations and notifications. So I tried to change them to work with SharePoint 2013 and I share them back in the community:

Service Accounts
Best practice for installation and configuration of SharePoint is to use service accounts that cover so called “least privileged” configuration. Each of these service accounts have rights and permissions only on the functionality/resources they are assigned for:

DOMAIN\sps2013admin (Setup account)
DOMAIN\sps2013farm (Farm account)
DOMAIN\sps2013serviceapps (Service Applications)
DOMAIN\sps2013apppool (Web Applications Application Pools)
DOMAIN\sps2013searchsvc (Search Service)
DOMAIN\sps2013content (Content Crawl)

you can read more for service accounts here

Instructions

Script 1: SP2013_ConfigFarm.ps1
Script 2: SP2013_ConfigManagedAccounts.ps1
Script 3: SP2013_ConfigServiceApps.ps1
Download the above scripts to your SharePoint server (scripts will be downloaded as .txt files, rename them to .ps1)
Install all prerequisites and start SharePoint 2013 installation. When installation completes, do not run the Configuration Wizard (uncheck option)
Open PowerShell Shell (run as Administrator) and navigate to the location of the scripts you saved (e.g. cd C:\Scripts)
User running PowerShell shell needs to have proper privileges on the SQL Server to create and configure SharePoint databases and admin privileges on the server
Run .\SP2013_ConfigFarm.ps1 and the configuration script will start. You will be asked to provide name of your SharePoint farm, service account logon credentials and other configuration options
When config finish check SQL server for Config and Content database. Then try opening Central Administration (just open to check everything is OK)
Run .\SP2013_ConfigManagedAccounts.ps1 and create remaining Managed Accounts from the “least privileged” list
Run .\SP2013_ConfigServiceApps.ps1 and configure selected Service Applications

That’s it, open Central Administration once again and check your configuration.

Месечна средба - Декември 2012 #1

darko — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:19:00 GMT

Среда, 5 Декември 2012 во просториите на Клуб на Новинари, со почеток во 17:30 часот, ќе се одржи првата месечна средба за месец Декември на групата. На оваа средба за презентер ќе го имаме Ѓорѓи Димитров на тема Entity Framework 5 Code First Migrations.

Присутните ќе може може да слушнат за новата функција на Entity Framework 5, Code First Migrations. Оваа функција ни овозможува да ја развиваме базата како што моделот се менува. Во презентацијата ќе бидат покриени следниве поднаслови:

- Овозможување на миграција
- Генерирање & Извршување Миграции
- Персонализирани Миграции
- SQL Прилагодувања
- Мигрирање кон одредена верзија (Upgrade/Downgrade)
- Генерирање на SQL Скрипта
- Автоматско мигрирање

Демонстрацијата ќе вклучи ASP.NET Web API и Entity Framework Code First.

По завршување на презентациите организирана е мала закуска во барот на клубот.

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CodeCamp 2012 - Call for Speakers

darko — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:09:00 GMT

Macedonian .NET User Group is opening this year Code Camp 2012 call for speakers. The conference is scheduled for 24.11.2012.Sessions on the conference are mainly in native Macedonian language, and for foreign speakers the sessions should be in English. All speakers that are interested in participating in the biggest community event should submit their session proposals not after 01.11.2012. The selected sessions and speakers will be notified on 03.11.2012.

As every year, you are encouraged to apply with Presentation on Topic that you think will be attractive for the audience. This year we are targeting 4 tracks and following technologies: HTML5, .NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8 development, Metro Style designs, Windows Phone development, Windows Azure, Mobile web, ASP.NET (4.0 and 4.5, MVC, Web Pages,…), SharePoint (2010 and 2013), Office 365, Team Foundation Services, ALM, etc.

Other Topics are also acceptable, so submit on anything you like in the development space. There is no central “theme” to our Code Camp except to focus on topics related to development.

Speakers – although we can’t afford to pay you for your time and expertise, we’ll have plenty of food and drinks, and other fun stuff just for you!

If you are willing to join this event as a speaker, please send session details (presentation title, description, covered technologies and contact information) to codecamp@mkdot.net.

CodeCamp Team

SP Adriatics Conference 2012 - котизациски попуст

darko — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:54:00 GMT

На 28-ми Ноември оваа година, во Загреб ќе се одржи првата SharePoint and Project Conference. На конференцијата свои предавања ќе имаат едни од врвните SharePoint експерти, како Wictor Wilen, Martina Grom, Joel Oleson, Agnes Molan, Michael Noel, Adis Jugo, и .т.н. (повеќе на листата на предавачи).

За сите членови на Македонската SharePoint корисничка група, организаторите на конференцијата одобрија котизациски попуст, по најниската Super Early Bird цена од 800 KN + PDV (околу 100 EUR + ДДВ). За сите заинтересирани, потребно е да испратат e-mail на sp@mkdot.net со свое име и презиме, а јас ќе ги препратам вашите податоци на организаторите кои ке ви испратат упатства за регистрација и добивање на попустот.

Месечна средба - Октомври 2012

darko — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:09:06 GMT

Среда, 3 Октомври 2012 во просториите на Клуб на Новинари, со почеток во 17:30 часот, ќе се одржи редовна месечна средба на групата. На оваа средба, MK Dynamics UG за предавач ќе го има Дејан стефановски на тема Двослојна vs. трислојна архитектура при градба на ERP решенија претставена преку Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.

Презентацијата има за цел да ја претстави новата револуционерна трислојна архитектура на Microsoft Dynamics NAV при изработка на ERP решенија, да даде споредба со претходната двослојна и да ги претстави основните развојни концепти (запознавање со развојната околина, програмскиот јазик и објектите при креирање на решенијата). Сето ова ќе биде презентирано преку примери во NAV 2009, како единствена верзија која содржи два NAV клиенти (по еден за секоја архитектура).Овие настани се бесплатни, отворени за сите кои сакаат да слушнат нешто ново и да се дружат.

По завршување на презентациите организирана е мала закуска во барот на клубот.

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I received Microsoft MVP Award for second time in a row

darko — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:33:00 GMT

It is very pleasant when you came home after your summer holiday, open your Inbox and find an e-mail that says “Congratulations 2012 Microsoft MVP!”

I am happy to announce to all my friends, colleagues and readers that I have been awarded as Microsoft MVP 2^nd Time in row once again on the SharePoint Server discipline.

I would like to thanks to all my friends, colleagues and community supporters who helped me receive this award once again. I would also like to give a special Thanks to Microsoft CEE MVP Lead Alessandro Teglia for this recognition.

Darko

Месечна средба - Јуни 2012

darko — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:46:00 GMT

Оваа среда, 6 Јуни 2012 во просториите на Клуб на Новинари, со почеток во 17:30 часот, ќе се одржи редовна месечна средба на групата на тема „Развој на социјални игри на Windows Azure“. Овој месец наш презентер е Александар Величковски кој ќе ни презентира практичен пример на можностите на Windows Azure како платформа за социјални игри.

Презентацијата ќе опфати 2 примери на социјални игри во мрежа, изградени врз основа на Command-Query Model (CQM) урнекот. Игрите користат Web и Worker roles од облакот кои комуницираат меѓусебно преку Windows Azure Storage Queue. Податочниот дел од решението е сместен во Windows Azure Storage Blobs како и во SQL Azure облакот. Најавувањето на играчите оди преку посебниот Windows Azure сервис за тие намени, Access Control Service (ACS), кој овозможува играчите да се вклучат во играта преку нивните постоечки профили на некои од познатите доставувачи на идентификациски сервиси како Windows Live, Facebook, Google, Yahoo! .

Овие настани се бесплатни, отворени за сите кои сакаат да слушнат нешто ново и да се дружат.

По завршување на презентациите организирана е мала закуска и освежување во барот на клубот.

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SharePoint 2010 User Profiles Synchronization Service – Starting (Errors No.1)

darko — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:27:00 GMT

Starting the SharePoint 2010 User Profiles Synchronization Service is well known issue and there are a lot of blogs that cover this topic. Microsoft tried to solve this issues with CUs and finally with Service Pack 1, but there are still problems that may occur. So this is one of those cases that I faced, and I will share this to help others to overcome quickly.

The scenario occurs on SharePoint 2010 with Service Pack 1 (no other CUs). It’s well known that you need to add Farm account as Local Admin, log on the computer with this account and try to start the UP Sync service.

Try 1: Try to start and after 1-2 minutes the Service shows Stopped. No errors in event viewer. I run ULS Viewer and started again. I found an error that says:

ProfileSynchronizationService: Provisioning TImer Job encountered an exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FIMSynchronizationService\Parameters\PerMAInstance\MOSS-77ef1666-cc36-4efe-aaea-e3f2e4599a9e' is denied.

So I opened RegEdit and added WSS_ADIMN_WPG local Group with write permissions on the Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FIMSynchronizationService\Parameters because \PerMAInstance does not existed.

Try 2: Started the service again, now I have to wait for 3-5 minutes to see that the service is stopped once again. I reviewed the ULS and found another error:

ILM Configuration: Error 'ERR_INVALID_GROUPS'.

UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure MIIS pre database, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: ERR_INVALID_GROUPS at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Synchronization.ILMPostSetupConfiguration.ValidateConfigurationResult(UInt32 result) at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Synchronization.ILMPostSetupConfiguration.ConfigureMiisStage1() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.SetupSynchronizationService(ProfileSynchronizationServiceInstance profileSyncInstance).

Started researching on the internet and found that after adding Farm account as Local Admin you need to restart the OWSTimer (or restart the complete server). When you install many SP Farms, you simply do things that you think you know, not following the step-by-step procedure each time. So I restarted the OWSTIMER service and give another try.

Try 3: Start the UP Sync service once again, and this time (after 3-5 minutes) the service is started. I logged of the Farm account and logged with Admin/Setup account. Opened the SP Central Administration and tried to open (Manage) the User Profiles Service Application. Error again.

UserProfileServiceUserStatisticsWebPart:LoadControl failed, Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference.

OMG, not again. Then research on the internet again, and found the resolution. IISRESET after you start the UP Sync service. Finally my UP Service Application with Sync was functional.

Amazing SharePoint numbers (facts: end of 2011)

darko — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:42:00 GMT

I knew that SharePoint Is a big successfully product that is used by many customers in the world, but writing the facts in numbers looks amazing:

125 000 000	SharePoint licenses sold to date
62 000 000	SharePoint 2010 licenses sold
700 000	Developers working on SharePoint around the world
100 000	Unique visitors per day on Microsoft’s internal SharePoint
65 000	Customers who have bought SharePoint
4 000	Partners giving SharePoint training
1 000	SharePoint developer books on the market

Source: http://veroniquepalmer.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/microsoft-sharepoint-conference-2011-wrap-up-spc11/

Месечна средба - Мај 2012

darko — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:55:00 GMT

Месечна средба, Мај 2012

Среда, 9 Мај 2012 во просториите на Клуб на Новинари, со почеток во 17:30 часот, ќе се одржи редовна месечна средба на групата. На оваа средба ќе го имаме Векослав Стефановски за презентер на темата Fake Mocking Dummy.

Софтвер кој не е тестиран е софтвер кој не работи. За да се стигне одредено ниво на доверба во софтверот, потребно е да се комбинираат неколку техники на тестирање, меѓу кои една од поважните е unit тестирање.

Иако сите се сложни дека unit тестовите додаваат голема вредност на стабилноста на софтверот, сепак нивната употреба, особено во нашата средина, сеуште е спорадична, а полето на unit тестирање е преоптоварено со митови околу нивната корисност и користење.

Во рамките на презентацијата ќе бидат опфатени тековните најдобри практики поврзани со тоа кога, што и колку треба да се тестира, ќе биде даден осврт кон најчестите митови за и против unit тестирање и ќе бидат претставени неколку алатки и библиотеки кои помагаат при планирање, пишување и извршување на unit тестови во рамки на .net работната околина.

На оваа месечна средба, свое претставување ќе има "Macedonian Visual C# User Group" која може да ја следите на http://vcs.mkdot.net сајтот каде ке имаат свои блогови и форуми, да им пишете на нивниот официјален e-mail vcs@mkdot.net, и на солицајлните мрежи Twitter и Facebook.

Овие настани се бесплатни, отворени за сите кои сакаат да слушнат нешто ново и да се дружат.

По завршување на презентациите организирана е мала закуска и освежување во барот на клубот.

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Microsoft WinDays 2012, Rovinj, Croatia

darko — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:49:00 GMT

I will be speaking at this year Microsoft WinDays Conference in Croatia. The conference is held in Rovinj, a beautiful city on the Adriatic Sea. The conference is from 23 to 26 of April, and there will be a lot of well known and proven speakers. Some of them that will be talking about SharePoint are Toni Frankola, Zlatan Dzinic, Michael Noel, Adis Jugo, etc.

I will be presenting about SharePoint 2010 and how it can help your organization to be better organized. The session will cover some of the best SharePoint features, how should you use them and which steps should you carefully plan and execute to build your perfect Enterprise Content Management system.

SharePoint Field Internal Name Length

darko — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:38:53 GMT

I want to share one interesting story about how can you waist one complete day in debugging and wondering what is going wrong with your code. I was coding an List Event receiver which should change a after property value depending on other field in ItemAdding. First you should find that in “-ing” event, to access BeforeProperties you should make your event Synchronous. But finally when I tried to set AfterProperty value I got an well known error “one or more fields are not installed properly”. I found a lot of posts that reference to different problem. One of them was to use the Internal Field Name to access it and set it. Since mu field was custom field created trough Field Definition (XML) I copied StaticName which was lets say “MyCustomFieldUsedForSettingUsersThatWillDoThat”. Everybody that have problems with this used like “Assigned To” but Internal Name was “AssignedTo” without space. Since I have no space and using Field Static Name I assumed that Internal Name is the same.

What also lead me to wrong direction was that my field was of type SPFieldUser and setting its value have multiple ways, other had problems with that and so on. I lost one complete day trying to find the solution. At the and I opened SharePoint Manager and found that my field Internal Name was “MyCustomFieldUsedForSettingUsers” missing the part “ThatWillDoThat”. What is the problem? I started counting the field name chars and found that internal name have 32 chars. So I assumed that Internal Field Name can have maximum 32 chars.

After this, it was easy to confirm this on the net:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointdevelopment/thread/831ece40-9588-48da-bc9a-43454cb803a7

Using [Me] and [Today] Tokens in CAML Query

darko — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:34:13 GMT

Recently I needed to create List View that returns all items Created by Me. Creating this View trough SharePoint List UI is very simple. You simply add [Me] token in the query value text box. But, I need to create this View declarative in Schema.xml. This requires creating the query in CAML and that gave me little trouble. Thanks to latest VS2010 SharePoint project templates intelligence, I found that the Author field is of type “User” and that [Me] token is used as node <UserID />. Also [Today] token is used as <Today /> in CAML queries.

So here is CAML Query with [Me] token:

<Query>
    <Where>
        <Eq>
            <FieldRef Name="Author" />
            <Value Type="User"><UserID /></Value>
        </Eq>
    </Where>
</Query>

Macedonian SharePoint Conference 2012

darko — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:44:00 GMT

Monday, 26-th of March, 2012

Macedonian SharePoint User Group is proud to announce the first Macedonian SharePoint Conference. This one day free community event will be the perfect start for the SharePoint community in Macedonia. The Conference speakers are proven experts and world famous SharePoint community influencers. Join us on 26th of March at the Skopje Fair Business Center and be part of the Macedonian SharePoint Conference 2012.

Speakers

Michael Noel: is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.
Joel Oleson: Joel was the first dedicated SharePoint Administrator ever. He's been working with SharePoint nearly 11 years and worked at Microsoft in both IT and the product teams including Architecting the first rollout of Microsoft's own global search, intranet, team sites, and my sites.
Paul J. Swider: is an international speaker, trainer and freelance consultant. In addition he is the founder of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and the author of the bestselling SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press.

Agenda

14:00 - 14:30 Registration
14:30 - 15:00 Michael Noel: Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm: Real World Best Practices
15:00 - 15:30 Joel Oleson: Avoiding Failed SharePoint Deployments: SharePoint Worst Practices
15:30 - 16:00 Paul J. Swider: Extending the ECM Features of SharePoint
16:00 - 16:20 Break
16:20 - 17:00 Panel Session with all three speakers

You can find more about the conference on http://www.sharepointconference.mk. Please register for the event trough the following link http://mkspconference2012.eventbrite.com/ and bring the printable ticket that will be sent to your e-mail right after successfully registration

For any additional questions please contact us at sp@mkdot.net or follow the Macedonian SharePoint User Group on Facebook or Twitter (@mkspug).

Месечна средба - Март 2012

darko — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:50:00 GMT

Среда, 7 Март 2012 во просториите на Клуб на Новинари, со почеток во 17:30 часот, ќе се одржи редовна месечна средба на групата. На оваа средба ќе имаме презентација на тема Развој на Windows апликации за мобилни уреди – минато, сегашност, иднина, а ќе ја презентира Орце Петрески.

Фокусот на оваа презентација е да се претстават различните платформи за развој на мобилни апликации дизајнирани од Microsoft, во последните 10 години.Во рамките на оваа презентација ќе се прикаже еволуцијата на оперативните системи, алатките за развој, како и концептите од .Net Compact Framework , па се до последната WinRT платформа.

Орце Петрески е професионалец со повеќе од 10 години работно искуство во областа на Софтверски инжинеринг. Со развој на мобилни апликации работи од 2004 година, со првите верзии на Windows Mobile платформата. Тој е сертифициран како MCPD:Windows Application Developer 4.0, MCPD:Windows Phone Developer. Последната година, работи интензивно на Windows Phone проекти. Орце е вработен во Seavus на позиција Senior .NET Developer.

Ова е прва средба на која официјално "Macedonian Mobile Development User Group" ке има свое предавање, за што им посакуваме добредојде и им посакуваме уште многу успешни предавања. Macedonian Mobile Development User Group може да ја следите на http://mobile.mkdot.net сајтот каде ке имаат свои блогови и форуми, да им пишете на нивниот официјален e-mail mobile@mkdot.net, и на солицајлните мрежи Twitter и Facebook.

SharePoint 2010 Macedonian Language Pack – Released

darko — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:01:00 GMT

From the release date of SharePoint 2010 (May 2010) till now (January 2012) a total of 20 months have passed. This was the time that we have to wait for the release of Macedonian Language Packs for SharePoint 2010 Foundation and Server. But at the end, the Language Pack is here and we can use it. Here are the links from where you can download it:

Office Servers 2010 contains all language packs about SharePoint Server, Project Server, Search Server and Office Web Apps.

[UPDATE: 01.02.2011]

I successfully installed the Macedonian Language Pack at my SharePoint 2010 Farm installed on Windows Server 2008 R2. Everything is working perfectly. The I decided to install the Language Packs on my development machine which is Windows 7. I started the Foundation Language Pack setup file and received the following error:

I remembered the when I was installing SharePoint Server 2010 on my development machine, I received the same error, but there was a guide how to tweak the setup and start the installation on Windows 7. I search the net and found the article. I do the same but for this LP Setup file:

First, copy both Language Pack installation files (.EXE) in one directory (example here is with C:\SP2010_MK_LP)
Extract the installation file/s (in sub-directories: example: foundation and server)
SharePointLanguagePack_mk-mk.exe /extract:C:\SP2010_MK_LP\foundation

you should get the following dialog as result:

Do the same for the Server Language Pack:
ServerLanguagePack_mk-mk.exe /extract:C:\SP2010_MK_LP\server

and once again you should get following dialog result:
Now we should edit config.xml for bot extracted installation (foundation and server sub-folders)

Open the directory \foundation\Files\Setup and edit the config.xml file. Add the following node inside the <Configuration>:
<Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>

[NOTE: the settings in config.xml are Case Sensitive]

Do the same for the Server in the directory \server\Files\Setup
Now you can start the Setup.exe file in bot extracted subdirectories (first on foundation and then on server) and the installation will start

After each Language Pack installation, the system will ask if you want to start Configuration Wizard. If you are installing Language Pack on Foundation only, then you should start this right after the Foundation Language Pack is installed. On the other hand, if you are installing Language Pack for Server, then you should first install Foundation Language Pack, uncheck the checkbox for starting the Configuration Wizard and Close the setup. Then install Server Language Pack and start the Configuration Wizard.

Месечна Средба - Февруари 2012

darko — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:52:00 GMT

Среда, 1 Февруари 2012 во просториите на Клуб на Новинари, со почеток во 17:30 часот, ќе се одржи редовна средба на групата. На оваа средба ќе имаме презентација на тема Управување со проекти во Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, од предавачот Костадин Солаков.

Управување со проекти во Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

- Краток вовед во Dynamics AX 2012

- Креирање на проект

- Планирање, буџетирање и предвидување на потребни ресурси

- Евиденција на трансакции и контрола на реализација

- Интеграција со останатите модули Dynamics AX

- Затворање на проект

Воедно, ова е прва редовна месечна средба во 2012 година, како и прва средба на која официјално "Macedonian Dynamics User Group" ке има свое предавање, за што им посакуваме добредојде и им посакуваме уште многу успешни предавања. Macedonian Dynamics User Group може да ја следите на http://mkdot.net сајтот каде ке имаат свои блогови и форуми, да им пишете на нивниот официјален e-mail dynamics@mkdot.net, и на солицајлните мрежи Twitter http://twitter.com/mkdynamicsug и Facebook http://www.facebook.com/mkdynamicsug.

SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Backup Script Error

darko — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:12:00 GMT

If you are trying to backup SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell script,

Backup-SPFarm -Directory "C:\SPBackup\" -Item "Farm\Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application\SharePoint - 80" -BackupMethod Full

you might experience the following error:

Operating system error 3(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105).

In my scenario, I was backuping SharePoint 2010 Web Application on a SharePoint 2010 Farm, with one WFE/APP and one SQL. First, I was doing backup on a local folder, lets say C:\SPBackups. This is issue because the SQL Server (diferent server from the SharePoint Front End) need to access UNC (shared folder) in order to save database backups. At the same time, SQL Server Service Account (under which SQL Server runs) need to have write permissions on that shared folder. So I shared my folder, aded permissions to the SharePoint Admin (Setup) Account and SQL Server Service Account, and changed the PowerShell script to backup on the \\server\spbackup\ location. This resolved my issue.

Nordeus Hackathon 2011

darko — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:09:00 GMT

Nordeus Hackathon 2011 е натпревар во екипна конкуренција за правење на игри во период од 24 часа. Натпреварот ќе се одржи во Белград на 23 декември оваа година. Овој е прв од ваков вид на натпревари, инаку организатор на натпреварот е компанијата Nordeus (официјално најдобрата стартап компанија за развој на игри за 2011, една од најпопуларните игри на FB, Top Eleven e дело на дечките од Nordeus).

Овој натпревар е наменет за талентирани млади луѓе кои сакаат да се забавуваат и да научат нешто ново и корисно во областа на развојот на играта.

За сите учесници од Македонија е обезбеден бесплатен превоз до Белград (за повеќе информации обратете се до организаторот).

Nordeus ви гарантира незаборавно искуство, фер плеј, добра забава и големи награди.

Крајниот рок за пријавување е 9-ти декември, затоа побрзајте, регистрирајте се!

Повеќе информации на следниов линк

SharePoint 2010 Visual PowerShell Command builder

darko — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:39:00 GMT

“The Windows PowerShell Command Builder for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products and Microsoft Office 365 is a Silverlight 4 application that is designed to help IT professionals and power users learn how to use Windows PowerShell for administrative tasks.”

This tool is great, it was always a challenge to remember all the SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Verbs and Nouns, and not to mention command arguments. Now with this tool we can easily assemble our comment with all the required and optional parameters. Then copy it to clipboard and past in the SharePoint 2010 Management shell. For each command there is a link to the TechNet documentation on the bottom-right pane.

It is accessible online on the following link and there is a User Guide for download.

Personally for me, as a SharePoint PowerShell administration fan, this is a big time saver.

I’m speaking at Microsoft Vizija 9 (2011)

darko — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:41:39 GMT

Once again I will be speaking at Microsoft Vizija conference in Skopje. My topic is about SharePoint 2010, enforcing structure and control in your organizations, using managed metadata and tagging and at the end Searching trough your data. You can find more if you come and watch my presentation. More about the conference and Agenda can be found on the http://msvizija.net.

CodeCamp 2011 - Call for Speakers

darko — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:18:00 GMT

One of the biggest events in the Macedonian developer community is back again: Code Camp 2011! This time, the event will take place on 26-th of November 2011, once again at FON University. Details will be coming on that soon on the official CodeCamp site. In the meantime, the call for speakers is now open.

Call for Speakers

Macedonian .NET User Group is looking for speakers to fill sessions for Code Camp 2011. We need to set the agenda by 10th November so please get your submissions posted in the coming days.

As every year, you are encouraged to apply with Presentation on Topic that you think will be attractive for the audience. This year we are willing to also organize separate Tracks on the following Topics:

1. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / jQuery, LESS, Client-side Optimization,ASP.NET MVC, etc. on Front-end development

2. Windows Phone Development (plus Mango), ASP.NET Mobile Web, ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Features, jQuery Mobile, Mobile Knockout JS, etc. on Mobile development

But also all other Topics are acceptable like ASP.NET, Azure Development, SharePoint 2010, C#, parallel programming, etc. So, submit on anything you like in the development space. There is no central “theme” to our Code Camp except to focus on topics related to development.

Speakers – although we can’t afford to pay you for your time and expertise, we’ll have plenty of food and drinks, and other fun stuff just for you!

If you are willing to join this even as a speaker, please send session details (presentation title, description, covered technologies and contact information) to codecamp@mkdot.net.

SharePoint 2010 training resources

darko — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:51:00 GMT

Recently I was ask about the suggestion of a good SharePoint 2010 end user training materials. I searched the net and I firsts stopped on a Microsoft SharePoint official site on their SharePoint 2010 Resources for End Users.

Browsing trough content I found great videos about SharePoint features and different ways of usage. Also there are complete SharePoint End User Training Courses covering different Topics for SharePoint features. Lastly I found downloadable PowerPoint presentations with videos in them. Presentations are great and can be stored on the company local SharePoint site from where users can open them and learn how can they improve their day to day work performance with SharePoint 2010.

Here are some of the links to the PowerPoint presentation I suggest for the start:

http://0.mk/sp2010_t1 - SharePoint pages I: An introduction
http://0.mk/sp2010_t2 - SharePoint lists I: An introduction
http://0.mk/sp2010_t3 - SharePoint document libraries I - An introduction
http://0.mk/sp2010_t4 - Share information in a central place

When organizing end user training for the employees in you company, there is always a good practice to create a site where all users will have Contribute permissions. There they can try what they saw and learned from the trainings.

Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint (SPDoc-Toolkit)

darko — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:24:00 GMT

A week ago I read a tweet from friend I follow (@ToniFrankola) about release of a tool that is called “Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint”. This title catch my eye and I followed the link on the tweet http://t.co/NWC9gs6 to find some more info about the tool. Finding out that this tool generate documentation, especially MS Word document, about you SharePoint Farm was interesting enough to download the trial version and start playing with it.

After starting a setup on my local SP Single-Server Farm, I was asked do I want to install it or just run and use it. This is just one of the things that surprised me at first. Offering me just to run the tool for once on the farm and generate the documentation is great feature, saving me from installing and maintaining many tools on the server.

Next day I was contacted by Toni Frankola, one of the tool developers. He happens to be an SharePoint MVP, just like me, and he sent me a key for using and evaluating this product. I installed full version and explored the features.

The tool is great, It documents all farm settings, web applications, it’s URLs and Alternate Access Mappings, Site Collections and their appropriate Content DS, and many many more settings and configurations. So finally we have I tool which will make your life easy after you finish SP Farm installation and configuration. No more need to create MS Word document by yourself, typing Sections and filling them with settings, like Web Applications, their URLs, Managed account, Application pools, etc. This is “just one click tool for your SharePoint documentation”.