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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

SharePoint Server 2016 update

SharePoint Server 2016 will become generally available in Q2 2016, with a public beta planned for Q4 2015. SharePoint Server 2016 will deliver enhancements and new capabilities in three major areas -
  • Improved user experiences
  • Cloud-inspired infrastructure
  • Compliance and reporting

 










Wednesday, March 4, 2015

SharePoint designer hangs and eventually times out with an error.

SharePoint designer hangs and eventually times out with an error.











In SharePoint Designer there is an option to disable the preloading of site data…

File > Options > (General Tab) > Application Options:


















By disabling the “Preload site data during the site open process” and restarting SharePoint Designer… everything now works.

Please test like everything.

Please let me know if this is helpful or you have any questions.

Thank you !
Abhi

Thursday, February 19, 2015

SOAP message cannot be parsed

SharePoint list has 209 columns and there are 9 lookup columns and 19 calculated fields. With this list structure when you re-publish the InfoPath, SharePoint trying to update each item's property behind the scene and this operations times-out is logical with “SOAP message cannot be parsed” error.

To support more execution time override the executionTimeout <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" executionTimeout="3000" /> in related web.config file. I tried with 3000 seconds and the update went through successfully.

Again this can be due to many reason - large list/calculated fields/number of views/applied master page and CSS- so please check your ULS log and Fiddler to get the exact situation.

Thank you !

SharePoint - Maximum Values


SharePoint Boundaries – Maximum Values

SharePoint Boundaries

SharePoint Thresholds – Maximum Values

SharePoint Thresholds

SharePoint Supported Limits – Maximum Values

SharePoint Supported Limits

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

To find all the large lists with items count - PowerShell


I have seen many times you have the immediate requirement of getting the large list for any or all the web apps in your SharePoint farm.

Please run this PowerShell for each content database - Best practice is off production hours 

Use wss_content_relatedDBName

SELECT ItemChildCount + FolderChildCount as Items, DirName +'/' + LeafName as RelativePath FROM alldocs WITH(NOLOCK) WHERE ItemChildCount + FolderChildCount > 5000 ORDER BY Items DESC

Thank you!

SharePoint Designer Performance Issue at the client side

Sometimes i have seen SharePoint performance issue at the client side - this can be due to many reason but you can give a try for below steps at client side and see if this helps you !

1. Close SharePoint Designer.
2. Clear your Internet Explorer's temporary Internet cache and close the browser.
3. Remove content in Folder %System Drive%\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebSiteCache).
4. Type %temp% at a run prompt and delete all the temp files in there.
5. Type temp at a run prompt and delete all the temp files in there.
6. Delete %APPDATA%\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache
7. Delete the contents of: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache 

8. Delete contents of %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer

you can also check @ server side - change with your URL

$app = Get-SPWebApplication http://abhi.interest.com
$app.ClientCallableSettings.ExecutionTimeout

Try to increase ClientCallableSettings.ExecutionTimeout values - 

$app.ClientCallableSettings.ExecutionTimeout = 5400000000

$app.Update()

Best of LUCK!

ProcDump v7.01

ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike. ProcDump also includes hung window monitoring (using the same definition of a window hang that Windows and Task Manager use), unhandled exception monitoring and can generate dumps based on the values of system performance counters. It also can serve as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts.

Download URL- https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx

Tiny tool and you can run at client side - I was trying to test the this for SPD with the below syntax

1. Put the binary to c:\
2. Open DOS shell 
3. Use this command for SPD - procdump.exe -f "" -e 1 -w spdesign.exe > proc.txt
4. Open SharePoint Designer and open the site
5. Once done - Ctr+C to terminate the dump collection process
6. Open proc.txt and see the result for further analysis