Adding comments, likes and follow from Yammer into you own SharePoint solutions

With the Yammer Embed API adding comments, likes and follow content is quite easy to achieve. Using this embed API has a great benefit as it is developed and maintained by Yammer, and will require very little effort to integrate. Features beyond the actions (like and follow) and the feed (comments) can be accomplished with either … Continue reading Adding comments, likes and follow from Yammer into you own SharePoint solutions →

The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available in SharePoint 2013

ProblemError in Central Admin when accessing the Managed Metadata service application:The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started. Please Contact your Administrator. Error in ULS log:Failed to get term store for proxy 'Managed Metadata Service'. Exception: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was … Continue reading The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available in SharePoint 2013 →

Use PowerShell to create a demosite for all the common used Web Templates in SharePoint 2013

In my previous article I provided a list of all the common used web templates in SharePoint 2013. For demo purposes it can be handy to spin up a copy of all these templates and later easy remove them. Using PowerShell we can accomplish this with the snippets provided below. Change the parameters under "Configuration" to match … Continue reading Use PowerShell to create a demosite for all the common used Web Templates in SharePoint 2013 →

Performance issues when working with lists using SPFieldUser and large amount of items

On a SharePoint 2013 intranet project I have been working on, we got a report that a web part had started to perform bad after a while of use. The web part presents a personalized list of tools to the end-user, and uses a SPList to store the data. This list is quite simple and … Continue reading Performance issues when working with lists using SPFieldUser and large amount of items →

Commonly used Web Templates in SharePoint 2013 with screenshots

I created a list of all the common used web templates in SharePoint 2013 with a screenshot showing how the site looks out-of-the-box primary to have for my own reference, but thought it might be interesting for other to access to so I posted this as an article. This is the web templates available when creating new … Continue reading Commonly used Web Templates in SharePoint 2013 with screenshots →