New setting for AD import

Use SharePoint Active Directory Import – User Profiles Instead of using the default setting of synchronization of User Profiles, you can select the “Use SharePoint Active Directory Import” setting. Which is a lighter version and which only imports information from the AD. If you had a connection before, it is lost when you click on …

Noderunner.exe

My SP2013 server was getting slower and slower and I could not even create a site collection anymore, so I looked into Task Manager and the processes. Found a new one, noderunner.exe, and it was consuming a lot of CPU That process is the Search service, with a new process name. Restarted the SharePoint Search Host Controller service and the performance looked a bit …

Limits and restrictions in SP2013

Most intranets I have worked with are used more or less as a file server (I struggle hard with getting users to organize the files with tags rather than folders, but users are lazy and they often end up dragging files directly from the file server with folder structures that are huge), so the content db often grows …

Configure the SP2013 server

I must say that I am not too fond of the Metro style in SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013. It looks very simple and ugly, but I will probably get used to it… I have always branded SP sites to have the company look & feel (which sometimes is hell as you all know who have worked with …

Installation steps SP2013 Preview

Launch the Splash screen Install the prereq’s Restart when asked Continue installation after restart Then launch Splash screen again, and install SharePoint Server 2013 You will first get this “error” message… you must restart before you can continue installation. Enter the product key which you will find on this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx Put the index files on …

MOSS MA not found

I got this error when I clicked on “Create new connection” in the User Profile Services App, to setup a new connection to the AD. If you get it, just restart the User Profile Synchronization Services under “Services on Server” in CA.

News feed with CQWP

How come I always tell the company I work or consult for, that I am not a developer.. and then I always end up developing stuff anyway? For my part, it is more of a frustration part, because it takes so much time to develop than to use the out of the box functionality. But …

Setup connection filter on AD

If you want to reduce the amount of user profiles that are imported from AD, then a good way is to filter the AD connection. Then you can filter out disabled accounts and for example, accounts that does not have a mail address. Go to you AD connection in the User Profile Service Application and hover …