Manually Installed Microsoft App Fabric Prerequisite for SharePoint Server 2013

In order to manually install Windows Server App Fabric for SharePoint 2013,

download the install file:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27115

you just store the file at c drive:

run the following commands from an elevated PowerShell command line:

$file = “c:\WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe”

& $file /i CacheClient”,”CachingService”,”CacheAdmin /gac

 

Note: The double quotations around the commas.

Certificate Validation errors in SharePoint 2013

I got client investigating performance issues – the Portal pages were sometimes taking a very long time to load. Page load times were inconsistent, and the browser would spend a long time “Connecting…”, before content would load on the page. Checking the event logs, we saw a frequent error message:

Error:

A certificate validation operation took 30008.7312 milliseconds
and has exceeded the execution time threshold. 
If this continues to occur, it may represent a configuration issue. 
Please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=246987 for more details.

 I did something similar before and had to generate a cert via powershell. So I done the following in the SharePoint Management Shell:
$rootCert = (Get-SPCertificateAuthority).RootCertificate
$rootCert.Export(“Cer”) | Set-Content C:\root.cer –Encoding Byte

The Certificate file will be saved on the C drive


 Once done I went back into the certificates snap in and imported the certificate into the trusted root certificate authorities. Once done the bulk of the errors disappeared 

Then I added Host entry of the web app port number in that host file entries

Error 1603 installing AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server 2012

I just uninstall the AppFabric and re-install the installer would run for a while and then error out with the following message:

Issue:

AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code: 1603

Solution:

Removing the extra double quote " in the path of PSModules in Environment Profiles helped in solving this issue on Win server 2012

 

how to design ASP.Net Grid control with Survey or quiz records in the Grouping Category of the Questions

1. Create DataList control.
2. Create Grid control inside the DataList
3. Bind Catagory data in the DataList control
4. It will loop all related questions during row databound.

 

Configure AJAX Control Toolkit in the Sharepoint 2007 in Windows server 2003 or Windows server 2008 R2

AJAX has been working in the SharePoint 2007 with windows server 2003.

So we migrated the above share point code and installed share point 2007 with windows server 2008 R2, but AJAX is not working in the new environment, after that I researched lot of articles  long long hours for trouble shooting and apply in the below steps

Steps

1.Installing Correct one of the AJAX setup(e.g 1.0,3.0, etc)

2.Modifying Port web config

3.Amend Master Page with script Code

4. Move .JS related files to Layout folders(i missed this step, I face issue then i fixed it)

<ajaxToolkit:ToolkitScriptManager EnablePartialRendering="true" runat="server" ID="ScriptManager1" />

For enabling Ajax in SharePoint 2007, We need first to configure SharePoint Portal to support AJAX. We can do it in following way -

• Installing ASP.NET AJAX on servers in your farm
• install the full " AJAX Extensions " from

ajax.asp.net

• Download ajextoolkit -

http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/11121

• Configure SharePoint to support AJAX & AjaxControlToolkit –
  For enabling Ajax in SharePoint 2007, you need first to configure SharePoint to support AJAX. For this we need to add some configuration settings in web.config file.Locate your default web.config file ("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\YourWebAppPortNo\web.config").

Ho to check SMTP server is running into your machine using command prompt

To do  test the SMTP server function, You have to follow steps to identify that whether SMTP configured and working or not.
The following  steps you need to follow to check SMTP server functionality. We are using the command prompt telnet to test the server.

1. open command prompt and type :

telnet 25
Note: 25 is the port used by SMTP and is the SMTP server name.
After you hit enter you will get some output like
220 Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:27 -0600
It means you got response from the SMTP server and it's the clue that SMTP is setup on the server.

2. For testing response say helo to it.
Type :
helo
output:
250 Hello [IP Adress]

3. Now we need to enter the From address of the mail.
Type :
mail from: admin@domain.com
output:
250 2.1.0 admin@domain.com….Sender OK

4. It's time to enter the recepient email address.
Type : rcpt to: someID@domain.com
output:
250 2.1.5 someID@domain.com

5. Now we are left with the data of the email. i.e. subject and body.
Type : data
output:
354 Start mail input; end with .

6. Type:
subject: this is a test mail for SMTP server functionality
Hi
This is SMTP test mail body
I am testing the SMTP server only for testing purposes.

.
.


7. Hit Enter, then . and then Enter.
output:
250 2.6.0 <C8wSA00000006@> Queued mail for delivery

8. Type: quit
output:
221 2.0.0 Service closing transmission channel

If you did everything as explained in the above steps, you will get a mail soon.

Kinldy check in the Queue and Drop folder.