Author Archives: Bernado

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About Bernado

Based in Australia, I am a freelance SharePoint and Dynamics CRM developer. I love developing innovative solutions that address business and everyday problems. Feel free to contact me if you think I can help you with your SharePoint or CRM implementation.

Solving SharePoint 2013 incoming mails stuck in Drop folder

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Bernado

I was setting up Incoming Mails for SharePoint 2013 and like many people on Google, my mails were delivered to the Drop folder and were stuck there. I have solved this and have gained some insights into how Incoming Mails … Continue reading →

Posted in Incoming Mails, SharePoint 2013 | 11 Comments

Making sub-sites inherit managed navigation settings of root site in SharePoint 2013

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Bernado

In SharePoint 2013 when creating sub-sites (at least through the UI), and you set the new sub-site to inherit the global nav from the parent site, and the parent site uses managed navigation, you will find that the global nav … Continue reading →

Posted in Managed Navigation, SharePoint 2013 | 2 Comments

Strange PowerShell behaviour when getting list content type’s ID

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Bernado

For some reasons when retrieving the ID of a content type at the list level in PowerShell, the ID of the parent content type (i.e. the one at the site level) is always returned. Below is my script: Running the … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 | 1 Comment

Differences between Enterprise Wiki and Wiki Page Library in SharePoint 2013

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Bernado

In SP2013 you can create a Wiki site/sub-site (using the Enterprise Wiki site template) or create a Wiki Page Library in an existing site. What are the functionality differences between these two options? Below is what I have found so … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013, Uncategorized, Wiki | 32 Comments

Visitors can’t access ribbon on publishing pages in SharePoint 2013

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Bernado

OOTB Visitors with Read permission can’t access the ribbon on publishing pages in SP2013. This is true for March 2013 Public Update. This is bad because some of the functionality that are useful for Visitors can only be accessed from … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013 | 2 Comments

MS bug: Error when creating new Search Navigation links in SharePoint 2013

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Bernado

In SharePoint 2013 you can create new Search Navigation links. This controls the options you get in the search dropdown box. OOTB, the options are Everything, People, Conversations and Video. Let say you have a Portal site collection (http://portal), and … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Enable email notifications for Tasks list in SharePoint 2013

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Bernado

———————– Update: I have not tested this myself, but apparently the option now appears on the UI with April 2013 CU: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/8ee6bd15-6aae-43c1-a853-66ae6523adbc/assigned-to-email-alert-issue?forum=sharepointgeneral. Update: Despite the link above, I tested this on SP1 with June 2014 CU and still could not … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013 | 59 Comments

AppFabric Distributed Cache keeps crashing in SharePoint 2013 – Fixed!

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Bernado

I rebuilt the farm and suddenly find my brand new AppFabric (aka Distributed Cache service) crashing continuously. I restarted the service in Services.msc and after a few minutes it would stop again. Event Viewer shows the two errors below every … Continue reading →

Posted in AppFabric, Distributed Cache, SharePoint 2013 | 8 Comments

Using Trending #Tags web part outside of MySites

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Bernado

By default the Trending #tags web part is added to your Newsfeed in MySites. To use this web part outside of MySites you will first have to export it from the MySites’s landing page (e.g. http://server/my/default.aspx) as a DWP, then … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013, Social | 19 Comments