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.

Making My Tasks web part available outside of MySites

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Bernado

The My Tasks web part exists in MySites by default, and can be found under the Content Rollup category. To make this web part available outside of MySites, activate the “My Tasks Dashboard” feature. This is a hidden Web-scoped feature. The … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013, Social | 9 Comments

Newsfeed in SharePoint 2013 – What can you expect?

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Bernado

While there are lots of high level information out there about what you can expect with the Newsfeed in SP2013, I have not been able to find a list of the types of updates you can expect to see on … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013, Social, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Making the Newsfeed web part available outside of My Sites in SharePoint 2013

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Bernado

The Newsfeed is a key piece in SP2013’s approach to social computing. It appears on the landing page of My Site as below: This is actually a web part titled Newsfeed, and can be found under the Social Collaboration category. … Continue reading →

Posted in MySite, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, Social | 46 Comments

Unknown server tag ‘asp:ListView’ in SharePoint 2010

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Bernado

Trying to use the ListView control in SharePoint 2010 and you’ll probably get the error above. Googling and you’ll find that most people suggest adding the tag below to the web.config: While this indeed fixes the problem, you’ll have to … Continue reading →

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Can’t create new Office Web Apps farm: The server must be joined to a domain

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Bernado

I kept on getting the above error message when executing New-OfficeWebAppsFarm even though my Office Web Apps (OWA) server is joined to a domain. My setup is like this: Server A has SP2013 installed on the physical machine, and hosts … Continue reading →

Posted in Office Web Apps | 1 Comment

Keyboard shortcut for “Focus on Content” button in SharePoint 2013

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Bernado

In SharePoint 2013 the Focus on Content button is found in the upper right corner, just under the help button. This button hides/shows the left navigation, top navigation and title bars – giving you more screen real estate for the main … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint | 2 Comments

How to use SharePoint 2013’s AppFabric caching in your code

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Bernado

By default SharePoint 2013 installs an AppFabric cache host on all servers in the farm. These hosts form a cache cluster for the farm. In SP2010 if you were running a multi-WFEs farm and using in-process caching, your users will … Continue reading →

Posted in AppFabric, SharePoint | 7 Comments

Posting blog comments as original author of blog post in SharePoint 2010

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Bernado

I had a requirement for a feature that would enable admin users to post comments to blog entries that would appear as if they were posted by the original author of the blog article. The scenario here is a corporate … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Rendering Template, SharePoint 2010 | Leave a comment

Merge-SPLogFile does not return any record for correlation ID

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Bernado

Given a correlation ID, Merge-SPLogFile is one of the best ways to track down a SharePoint error as this cmdlet searches for this ID across the ULS of all servers in the farm. You can even specify other filtering criteria, such … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010 | Leave a comment

Cannot login in with FBA with AD LDS in SharePoint 2010: An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The security token username and password could not be validated..

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Bernado

I was setting up FBA with AD LDS for SP2010. I created some test users in AD LDS and was able to see them in the PeoplePicker and grant them access. I couldn’t login as these users however, and was seeing … Continue reading →

Posted in AD LDS, Form Based Authentication, SharePoint 2010 | 2 Comments