SharePoint 2013 WCM Bootcamp in the Netherlands
SharePoint 2013 offers new and improved capabilities for building public-facing websites. Find out how to leverage those capabilities to build modern public-facing websites.On June 11 in Utrecht, The...
View ArticleInconvenient rootfolder parameter in discussions
As many of you would probably know there are some caveats when working with URL’s in SharePoint. Some documentation will tell you the URL’s are in fact case insensitive, while other information on the...
View ArticleMavention hosts DIWUG event on 22 May
On Wednesday 22 May, Mavention will be hosting the DIWUG event in the Caballero factory, where Mavention's office is also situated. The Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) is a Dutch SharePoint...
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Using the Anonymous search results cache on SharePoint 2013 public-facing...
Enabling the Anonymous search results cache can help you improve the performance of your SharePoint 2013 public-facing website using the search-driven publishing model. So how do you ensure that your...
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Unexpected exception - Failed to process hub site
Recently I found myself stuck on publishing content types from the Content Type Hub in a SharePoint 2010 farm at a customer. My new content types were not getting through to the subscribed site...
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Pre-creating content databases or not?
Planning content databases is one thing to seriously care about when using SharePoint. Topics such as sizing, number of site collections, backup and restore are a few examples. Creating content...
View ArticleBootcamp Web Content Management SharePoint 2013
Bootcamp Web Content Management SharePoint 2013On 11 June 2013, Microsoft Netherlands and Mavention will be organising a SharePoint 2013 WCM Bootcamp. The event aims to introduce participants to the...
View ArticleJavaScript and ULS logging
Sometimes your applications rely heavily on using JavaScript or jQuery (or ofcourse some of the other cool libraries that are out there). Now that might be a good thing, all that JavaScript allows you...
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Managed Metadata Service unavailable first request after IISReset
Last week I encountered an environment at a client that had some problems on their build automation scripts. Each night they would run a de-install and install of certain solutions, and for some reason...
View ArticleLeveraging internal controls and APIs using wrapper controls
SharePoint 2013 is a rich platform for building web solutions. And although it offers a rich API to leverage its capabilities in custom solutions, not all of the functionality is accessible through...
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Inconvienient SiteActions menu and hidding Publishing Actions
Hiding out of the box SharePoint parts has been made a whole lot easier in SharePoint 2010 with the introduction of the HideCustomAction element. So whenever you need or want to hide something in the...
View ArticleSlidedeck from SharePoint Saturday Holland 2013 available
Last Saturday I presented at the SharePoint Saturday Holland 2013 on apps and the App model for Office365. Following you can find the slidedeck of that presentation (in Dutch). In this presentation I...
View ArticlePresentation deck from SharePoint Saturday Holland 2013 available
Last Saturday I presented on the SharePoint Saturday Holland 2013 on building intelligent websites using SharePoint 2013. Following is the presentation deck from my presentation. During the...
View ArticleMavention present at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2013
Mavention present at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2013From 7 to 11 July, Microsoft will host the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 in Houston. The event is expected to attract more...
View ArticleMavention website hosted on Azure
Mavention launches the first SharePoint 2013 website in the Netherlands on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform.Innovation is a core competency of Mavention. Last year, Mavention was the first...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to update Web Title
At the SharePoint Saturday last week I got a question about renaming and moving a site with PowerShell. Someone wanted to move their existing site to a new URL and rename it with a new Site Title, so...
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Inconvenient Anonymous Search Results Cache and User Segments
Anonymous Search Results Cache is a great way of optimizing the performance of your public-facing website that uses search-driven publishing. Unfortunately things look a little less optimistic when...
View ArticleIntegrating social media with public-facing websites in SharePoint 2013
Integrating social media within your organization can help you reach your organization’s goals. The integration can be done on your organization’s intranet to increase transparency, but you can also...
View ArticlePowerShell Warmup script with a browser object
Whenever you create a new webapplication, SharePoint will set a specific timestamp when the IIS applicationpool will recycle every night and when memory limits are exceeded. If you would write proper...
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Easy duplicating Publishing Pages using Mavention Duplicate Page
When creating new content you can create new page from scratch but if the content is very similar to an already existing page you might as well start by copying the existing page. Find out how to...
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